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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| 说不定 說不定 | can't say for sure; maybe | |
| 男女 男女 | male-female; male and female | |
| 多年 多年 | many years; for many years; longstanding | |
| 粗 粗 | coarse; rough; thick (for cylindrical objects); unfinished; vulgar; rude; crude | |
| 沉 沉 | to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy | |
| 从此 從此 | from now on; since then; henceforth | |
| 笨 笨 | stupid; foolish; silly; slow-witted; clumsy | |
| 独自 獨自 | alone | |
| 反而 反而 | on the contrary; instead | |
| 县 縣 | county | |
| 夫妻 夫妻 | husband and wife; married couple | |
| 腰 腰 | waist; lower back; pocket; middle; loins | |
| 含 含 | to keep in the mouth; to contain | |
| 移 移 | to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove | |
| 针 針 | needle; pin; injection; stitch | |
| 弱 弱 | weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than | |
| 地下 地下 | underground; subterranean; covert | |
| 引 引 | to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters | |
| 遇 遇 | to meet; to encounter; to treat; to receive; opportunity; chance | |
| 登 登 | to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) | |
| 黄金 黃金 | gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time) | |
| 新鲜 新鮮 | fresh (experience, food etc); freshness; novel; uncommon | |
| 守 守 | to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining | |
| 有趣 有趣 | interesting; fascinating; amusing | |
| 牙 牙 | tooth; ivory | |
| 如今 如今 | nowadays; now | |
| 万一 萬一 | just in case; if by any chance; contingency | |
| 回复 回復 | to reply; to recover; to return (to a previous condition); Re: in reply to (email) | |
| 挑 挑 | to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick | |
| 脱 脫 | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from | |
| 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 | |
| 夫人 夫人 | lady; madam; Mrs. | |
| 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 | |
| 卷 卷 | to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | |
| 烦 煩 | to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy | |
| 贴 貼 | to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip | |
| 人家 人家 | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be | |
| 官 官 | government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body | |
| 赢得 贏得 | to win; to gain | |
| 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 | |
| 戴 戴 | to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support | |
| 手里 手裡 | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands | |
| 既 既 | already; since; both... (and...) | |
| 提醒 提醒 | to remind; to call attention to; to warn of | |
| 既然 既然 | since; as; this being the case | |
| 寻找 尋找 | to seek; to look for | |
| 落 落 | to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind | |
| 丈夫 丈夫 | husband | |
| 怪 怪 | bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather | |
| 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 |