The Crimson Palm

The Crimson Palm 1964

血手印 xuè shǒuyìn

Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancee before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only to find her maid lying dead in blood. Lin is then accused of murder. How can Judge Bao prove his innocence?

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唯恐 唯恐 wéi kǒng for fear that; lest; also written 惟恐 ∼HSK 6
死罪 死罪 sǐ zuì capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies ∼HSK 6
岂能 豈能 qǐ néng how could ...?; how can it be that ...? (rhetorical) ∼HSK 6
奉上 奉上 fèng shàng to offer ∼HSK 6
号炮 號砲 hào pào cannon used for signaling; signaling shot ∼HSK 6
三魂 三魂 sān hún three immortal souls in Daoism, representing spirit and intellect ∼HSK 6
绝子绝孙 絕子絕孫 jué zǐ jué sūn to be without descendants (curse); may your line die out (idiom) ∼HSK 6
刀下留人 刀下留人 dāo xià liú rén stay the blade! spare this person! (idiom); a plea to halt an execution ∼HSK 6
赴约 赴約 fù yuē to keep an appointment ∼HSK 6
怎敢 怎敢 zěn gǎn how dare ∼HSK 6
不仁 不仁 bù rén not benevolent; heartless; numb ∼HSK 6
良人 良人 liáng rén husband (arch.) ∼HSK 6
秉公 秉公 bǐng gōng justly; impartially ∼HSK 6
尚可 尚可 shàng kě not bad; satisfactory ∼HSK 6
狡赖 狡賴 jiǎo lài to deny (through sophism) ∼HSK 6
拖下水 拖下水 tuō xià shuǐ lit. to pull sb into the water; to involve sb in a messy business; to get sb into trouble ∼HSK 6
重审 重審 chóng shěn to reinvestigate; to investigate and reconsider a judgment ∼HSK 6
开堂 開堂 kāi táng to open a law court; to set up a mourning hall ∼HSK 6
审问 審問 shěn wèn to interrogate; to examine; to question ∼HSK 6
不讳 不諱 bù huì without concealing anything; to pass away; to die ∼HSK 6
黎民 黎民 lí mín the common people; the great unwashed ∼HSK 6
卧房 臥房 wò fáng bedroom; a sleeping compartment (on a train) ∼HSK 6
约莫 約莫 yuē mo to estimate; to guess; about; around; approximately ∼HSK 6
何事 何事 hé shì what matter ∼HSK 6
横财 橫財 hèng cái easy money; windfall; ill-gotten gains; undeserved fortune; illegal profit ∼HSK 6
尸首 屍首 shī shou dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like or, decapitation is implied.) ∼HSK 6
死尸 死屍 sǐ shī corpse; dead body ∼HSK 6
何人 何人 hé rén who ∼HSK 6
欺瞒 欺瞞 qī mán to fool; to hoodwink; to dupe ∼HSK 6
私藏 私藏 sī cáng to keep hidden; to keep in one's private possession; secret store; stash ∼HSK 6
不致 不致 bù zhì not in such a way as to; not likely to ∼HSK 6
杀人灭口 殺人滅口 shā rén - miè kǒu (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth ∼HSK 6
清正 清正 qīng zhèng upright and honorable ∼HSK 6
无缘无故 無緣無故 wú yuán - wú gù (idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for ∼HSK 6
凶犯 兇犯 xiōng fàn murderer ∼HSK 6
含冤 含冤 hán yuān wronged; to suffer false accusations ∼HSK 6
一干人犯 一干人犯 yī gān rén fàn the whole gang of criminals (idiom); all the accused in a case ∼HSK 6
附耳 附耳 fù ěr to approach sb's ear (to whisper) ∼HSK 6
瞒上不瞒下 瞞上不瞞下 mán shàng bù mán xià lit. to deceive superiors but not subordinates (idiom); to keep something from the higher-ups ∼HSK 6
公案 公案 gōng àn judge's desk; complex legal case; contentious issue; koan (Zen Buddhism) ∼HSK 6
招来 招來 zhāo lái to attract; to incur ∼HSK 6
陈年 陳年 chén nián (of wine) aged; (of debts etc) old; longstanding ∼HSK 6
伸冤 伸冤 shēn yuān to right wrongs; to redress an injustice ∼HSK 6
双膝 雙膝 shuāng xī both knees ∼HSK 6
横梁 橫梁 héng liáng beam ∼HSK 6
贪心 貪心 tān xīn greedy ∼HSK 6
笔下超生 筆下超生 bǐ xià chāo shēng to show mercy with one's pen (idiom); to soften a written verdict and spare someone ∼HSK 6
纱帽 紗帽 shā mào gauze hat; (fig.) job as an official ∼HSK 6
怪罪 怪罪 guài zuì to blame ∼HSK 6
即日 即日 jí rì this or that very day; in the next few days ∼HSK 6