The Bride Napping

The Bride Napping 1962

huā tián cuò

The romance of a squire's daughter and a poor but refined scholar is thwarted when a loutish bandit is mistaken for the scholar by a confused servant and is given the idea that the daughter's hand in marriage is his for the asking. Rich in cross-dressing, mistaken identities, and reversals of gender roles, the film playfully subverts traditional Confucian values.

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Vocabulary

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lái to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
duō guǎn xián shì meddling in other people's business Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
chòu qián dirty money Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
zi beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit Colloquialism HSK 5
shèn what (literary, = 什么) ∼HSK 5
me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
Biàn to be impatient, in a hurry; excitable ∼HSK 5
ǎi interjection; exclamation ∼HSK 5
complex; double ∼HSK 5
轿 jiào sedan-chair, palanquin ∼HSK 5
zhài stockade, stronghold, outpost; brothel ∼HSK 5
jiā (archaic) I; me (used by males during the Song and Yuan dynasties) ∼HSK 5
guān authorities; feudal official ∼HSK 5
luán fabulous bird ∼HSK 5
etiquette; ceremonial rites ∼HSK 5
lǎo ye master, sir ∼HSK 5
suck; chew, masticate ∼HSK 5
便 便 fāng biàn inconvenience; inconvenient ∼HSK 5
paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary) ∼HSK 5
shēng yuàn desire to exist (in Buddhism, tanhā); craving for rebirth ∼HSK 5
demon ∼HSK 5
niū girl ∼HSK 5
huò misfortune, calamity, disaster ∼HSK 5
bǎo bèi r erhua variant of ∼HSK 5
dòng fáng secret inner room; bridal room ∼HSK 5
婿 son-in-law; husband ∼HSK 5
cai slave; fig. flunkey ∼HSK 5
gēng soup, broth ∼HSK 5
zūn honored ∼HSK 5
méi ren go-between; matchmaker ∼HSK 5
ye son-in-law (used by wife's family); uncle (husband of father's sister) ∼HSK 5
pēi bah! (contempt) ∼HSK 5
ancestral temple; offer sacrifice ∼HSK 5
Chóng esteem, honor, revere, venerate ∼HSK 5
tián field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent ∼HSK 5
tīng qīng to hear clearly ∼HSK 5
rén to swear or curse (at people); to scold or yell at someone ∼HSK 5
to meet as volunteers for an uprising ∼HSK 5
father's oldest sister; husband's older sister; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
exclamatory particle ∼HSK 5
various place names; surname ∼HSK 5
寿 Shòu old age, long life; lifespan ∼HSK 5
zhàng tent; account ∼HSK 5
zǒu yùn to have good luck; to be in luck ∼HSK 5
péi to offer an apology; to make amends ∼HSK 5
Ēmítuó Amitabha Buddha (also a Buddhist greeting) ∼HSK 5
chuǎng to enter (a place) without permission; to intrude into ∼HSK 5
qiǎng zǒu to snatch (esp related to a robbery) ∼HSK 5
rén humaneness, benevolence, kindness ∼HSK 5