The Female Prince 1964
双凤奇缘
The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-loke and written by Chang Cheh, the story revolved around two intellectual siblings, Ching Feng-sheng (Chin Feng) and Ching Feng-hsiao (Ivy Ling Po), who were constantly abused by their stepmother Hsia (Kao Pao-shu). Feng-hsiao was engaged to Li Ru-lung (Chin Han) since birth, but the greedy Hsia forced him to forfeit the marriage. When Ru-lung refused, Hsia framed him for thievery and put him behind bars. To rescue her lover, Feng-hsiao dressed as a young man and went to the capital. She then used Ru-lung's name to enter the national exam and was ranked first place. Impressed by Feng-hsiao, the Emperor decided to let her wed the Princess (Fang Ying). On the wedding night, Feng-hsiao revealed the truth to the Princess...
Vocabulary
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| 立 立 | to stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately | |
| 害 害 | to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity | |
| 瘦 瘦 | thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive | |
| 咬 咬 | to bite; to nip | |
| 辛苦 辛苦 | exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s) | |
| 礼 禮 | gift; rite; ceremony; propriety; etiquette; courtesy | |
| 躲 躲 | to hide; to dodge; to avoid | |
| 一辈子 一輩子 | (for) a lifetime | |
| 碎 碎 | (transitive or intransitive verb) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered; garrulous | |
| 凭 憑 | to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof | |
| 仔细 仔細 | careful; attentive; cautious; to be careful; to look out | |
| 猜 猜 | to guess | |
| 人士 人士 | person; figure; public figure | |
| 撞 撞 | to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident | |
| 逃 逃 | to escape; to run away; to flee | |
| 吐 吐 | to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances) | |
| 偷 偷 | to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily | |
| 恨 恨 | to hate; to regret | |
| 愿 願 | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 一旦 一旦 | in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 千言万语 千言萬語 | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say; talking nonstop | Idiom |
| 从一而终 從一而終 | faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying) | Idiom |
| 谈何容易 談何容易 | easier said than done (idiom) | Idiom |
| 无心 無心 | unintentionally; not in the mood to | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 受不了 受不了 | unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 顺昌 順昌 | Shunchang county in Nanping, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 托福 託福 | TOEFL; Test of English as a Foreign Language | Proper Noun |
| 诗书 詩書 | the Book of Songs and the Book of History | Proper Noun |
| 凌云 凌雲 | Lingyun county in Baise, Guangxi | Proper Noun |
| 苏秦 蘇秦 | Su Qin (340-284 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 孔庙 孔廟 | Confucian temple | Proper Noun |
| 戚继光 戚繼光 | Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), military leader | Proper Noun |
| 秦 秦 | surname Qin; Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor; short name for | |
| 公子 公子 | son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific) | |
| 戚 慼 | relative; be related to; sad | |
| 郎 郎 | gentleman, young man; husband | |
| 庄 莊 | village, hamlet; villa, manor |