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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| 财产 財產 | property; assets; estate | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 不然 不然 | not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? | |
| 归 歸 | to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | |
| 闹 鬧 | noisy; cacophonous; to make noise; to disturb; to vent (feelings); to fall ill; to have an attack (of sickness); to go in (for some activity); to joke | |
| 烦 煩 | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy | |
| 躺 躺 | to recline; to lie down | |
| 色 色 | color; look; appearance; sex | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 究竟 究竟 | to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result | |
| 翻 翻 | to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 冲 沖 | thoroughfare; to go straight ahead; to rush; to clash | |
| 反 反 | contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system | |
| 无论 無論 | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... | |
| 兄弟 兄弟 | brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal | |
| 王 王 | king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great | |
| 方 方 | square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter | |
| 非 非 | abbr. for 洲, Africa | |
| 不管 不管 | not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter | |
| 根据 根據 | according to; based on; basis; foundation | |
| 些 些 | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | |
| 处 處 | to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish | |
| 呀 呀 | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 亲 親 | parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; intimate; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear | Xiehouyu |
| 自打 自打 | (coll.) since | Colloquialism |
| 往死里 往死裡 | (coll.) (to beat etc) to death | Colloquialism |
| 死人 死人 | dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen | Colloquialism |
| 要是 要是 | (coll.) if | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 牛头 牛頭 | Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology | Proper Noun |
| 沙 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 牛肉 牛肉 | beef | |
| 打死 打死 | to kill; to beat to death | |
| 不愿 不願 | unwilling | |
| 胡 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 裤带 褲帶 | belt (in trousers) | |
| 阳 陽 | positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: | |
| 楚 楚 | name of feudal state; clear | |
| 食 食 | eat; meal; food; KangXi radical number 184 | |
| 把子 把子 | handle | |
| 人种 人種 | race (of people) | |
| 新婚 新婚 | newly wed | |
| 张口 張口 | to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc); to gape; to start talking (esp. to make a request) | |
| 衫 衫 | shirt; robe; gown; jacket | |
| 一世 一世 | generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings) | |
| 死活 死活 | life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me | |
| 弄死 弄死 | to kill; to put to death | |
| 干嘛 幹嘛 | what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? |