Red Sorghum 1988
红高粱
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
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Vocabulary
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| 袖 袖 | sleeve; put something in sleeve | |
| 剪子 剪子 | clippers; scissors; shears | |
| 大都 大都 | Dadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijing | |
| 看成 看成 | to regard as | |
| 原先 原先 | originally; original; former | |
| 再也 再也 | (not) any more | |
| 怨 怨 | to blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge | |
| 肠 腸 | intestines | |
| 总算 總算 | at long last; finally; on the whole | |
| 上下 上下 | up and down; top and bottom; old and young; length; about | |
| 也好 也好 | that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ... | |
| 大胆 大膽 | brazen; audacious; outrageous; bold; daring; fearless | |
| 完了 完了 | to be finished; to be done for; ruined; gone to the dogs; oh no | |
| 不许 不許 | not to allow; must not; can't | |
| 提起 提起 | to mention; to speak of; to lift; to pick up; to arouse; to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc) | |
| 锅 鍋 | pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing | |
| 买卖 買賣 | buying and selling; business; business transactions | |
| 动手 動手 | to set about (a task); to hit; to punch; to touch | |
| 认 認 | to recognize; to know; to admit | |
| 尝 嘗 | to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once | |
| 青 青 | abbr. for 海, Qinghai Province | |
| 库 庫 | warehouse; storehouse; (file) library | |
| 回头 回頭 | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by | |
| 忍 忍 | to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself | |
| 后悔 後悔 | to regret; to feel remorse | |
| 骂 罵 | to scold; to abuse; to curse | |
| 锁 鎖 | to lock; to lock up; a lock | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 烂 爛 | soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad | |
| 滚 滾 | to boil; to roll; to take a hike; Get lost! | |
| 可惜 可惜 | it is a pity; what a pity; unfortunately | |
| 屋 屋 | (bound form) house; (bound form) room | |
| 吐 吐 | to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances) | |
| 毒 毒 | poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics | |
| 可怜 可憐 | pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on | |
| 偷 偷 | to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 高梁 高梁 | Takahashi (name); Takahashi city in Okayama prefecture, Japan; Highbridge (name) | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 日军 日軍 | Japanese army; Japanese troops | Proper Noun |
| 县志 縣志 | general history of a county; county annals | Proper Noun |
| 莫言 莫言 | Mo Yan (1955-), Chinese novelist, winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature | Proper Noun |