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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| 书房 書房 | study (room); studio | |
| 改装 改裝 | to change one's costume; to repackage; to remodel; to refit; to modify; to convert | |
| 奏 奏 | to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old) | |
| 免得 免得 | so as not to; so as to avoid | |
| 眼看 眼看 | soon; in a moment; to look on as sth happens | |
| 一道 一道 | together | |
| 昏 昏 | muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness | |
| 处处 處處 | everywhere; in all respects | |
| 便是 便是 | (emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated); precisely; exactly; even; if; just like; in the same way as | |
| 再生 再生 | to be reborn; to regenerate; to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person); recycling; regeneration | |
| 片刻 片刻 | short period of time; a moment | |
| 懒 懶 | lazy | |
| 家园 家園 | home; homeland | |
| 牢 牢 | firm; sturdy; fold (for animals); sacrifice; prison | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 想不到 想不到 | unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that | |
| 顾 顧 | to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 皇帝 皇帝 | emperor | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 此事 此事 | this matter | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 此次 此次 | this time | |
| 前来 前來 | to come (formal); before; previously | |
| 虽 雖 | although; even though | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! | |
| 和谐 和諧 | harmonious; harmony; (euphemism) to censor | |
| 天下 天下 | land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule | |
| 一番 一番 | Some | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 遭遇 遭遇 | to meet with; to encounter; (bitter) experience | |
| 宫 宮 | palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 选举 選舉 | to elect; election | |
| 偏 偏 | to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations | |
| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 公主 公主 | princess | |
| 露 露 | to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose | |
| 料 料 | material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 将军 將軍 | general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 负 負 | to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 胸 胷 | chest; bosom; heart; mind; thorax | |
| 拖 拕 | to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin |