Green Snake

Green Snake 1993

qīng shé

Two snake spirits become human and learn about love and suffering. A monk discovers his own weaknesses and finds that morality is not as simple as he had thought.

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4.98 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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huǎng lie ∼HSK 5
zāo le gosh!; oh no!; darn! ∼HSK 5
zūn honored ∼HSK 5
zhú black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) ∼HSK 5
zhòu curse, damn, incantation ∼HSK 5
yìn shade, shelter; protect ∼HSK 5
Liǔ willow tree; pleasure ∼HSK 5
resemble (literary) ∼HSK 5
xiū liàn (of Taoists) to practice austerities; to practice asceticism ∼HSK 5
tiān zāi natural disaster ∼HSK 5
shǒu zhǎng xīn palm (of one's hand); control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand) ∼HSK 5
spur a horse on; expel, drive away ∼HSK 5
xiēxi rest ∼HSK 5
chī foolish, stupid, dumb, silly ∼HSK 5
crouch, crawl, lie hidden, conceal ∼HSK 5
Hóu marquis, lord; target in archery ∼HSK 5
the Buddha ∼HSK 5
demon ∼HSK 5
guǐ shén supernatural beings ∼HSK 5
dàoshi Daoist priest ∼HSK 5
me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
zhú lín bamboo forest ∼HSK 5
yíng fill; full, overflowing; surplus ∼HSK 5
zhǎng xīn hollow of the palm ∼HSK 5
zuì to get drunk ∼HSK 5
qiè concubine; I (humble, female) ∼HSK 5
lěng hàn cold sweat ∼HSK 5
Chí pool, pond; moat; cistern ∼HSK 5
Wēng old man; father, father-in-law ∼HSK 5
yàn yáng tiān bright sunny day; blazing hot day ∼HSK 5
chén early morning, daybreak ∼HSK 5
nián qīng youthful ∼HSK 5
bài bow, worship ∼HSK 5
xiáng good luck, good omen; happiness ∼HSK 5
luó gong ∼HSK 5
kind, charitable, benevolent ∼HSK 5
shén rén God; deity ∼HSK 5
married women; woman; wife ∼HSK 5
crime, criminal offense ∼HSK 5
mián close eyes, sleep; hibernate ∼HSK 5
xiǎo dawn, daybreak; clear, explicit ∼HSK 5
weep, whimper; howl, twitter ∼HSK 5
hán shí cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节); the Qingming festival ∼HSK 5
hóng dòu azuki bean; red bean ∼HSK 5
hole, cave; cellar; underground ∼HSK 5
xiāo night, evening, dark ∼HSK 5
yín obscene, licentious, lewd ∼HSK 5
huì bright, intelligent; intelligence ∼HSK 5
yǒu to be like sth; similar to; alike ∼HSK 5
chā yaksha (malevolent spirit) (loanword); (fig.) ferocious-looking person ∼HSK 5