The Forbidden Past 1976
小楼残梦
In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas.
Vocabulary
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| 住 住 | to live; to dwell; to stay; to reside; to stop; (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) | |
| 朋友 朋友 | friend | |
| 号 號 | roar; cry | |
| 行 行 | row; line; commercial firm; line of business; profession; to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column | |
| 岁 歲 | classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests) | |
| 老 老 | prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough | |
| 最后 最後 | final; last; finally; ultimate | |
| 地方 地方 | region; regional (away from the central administration); local | |
| 出来 出來 | to come out; to appear; to arise | |
| 告诉 告訴 | to press charges; to file a complaint | |
| 问 問 | to ask; to inquire | |
| 买 買 | to buy; to purchase | |
| 一样 一樣 | same; like; equal to; the same as; just like | |
| 三 三 | three; 3 | |
| 东西 東西 | east and west | |
| 回 回 | to circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve; Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); time; classifier for acts of a play; section or chapter (of a classic book) | |
| 钱 錢 | coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两 | |
| 请 請 | to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request | |
| 别 別 | to leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish; (bound form) other; another; different; don't ...!; to fasten with a pin or clip; to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement); (noun suffix) category (e.g. 性别, 派别) | |
| 这里 這裡 | here | |
| 孩子 孩子 | child | |
| 叫 叫 | to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood) | |
| 非常 非常 | very; really; unusual; extraordinary | |
| 听 听 | smile (archaic) | |
| 找到 找到 | to find | |
| 车 車 | car; vehicle; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159 | |
| 几 几 | small table | |
| 见 見 | to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view | |
| 一起 一起 | in the same place; together; with; altogether (in total) | |
| 起来 起來 | to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qǐ lái] | |
| 看到 看到 | to see | |
| 月 月 | moon; month; monthly | |
| 觉得 覺得 | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) | |
| 还是 還是 | still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or | |
| 话 話 | dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said | |
| 今天 今天 | today; at the present; now | |
| 比 比 | Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利时 | |
| 快 快 | rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant | |
| 打 打 | to beat; to strike; to hit; to break; to type; to mix up; to build; to fight; to fetch; to make; to tie up; to issue; to shoot; to calculate; to play (a game); since; from | |
| 还有 還有 | furthermore; in addition; still; also | |
| 找 找 | to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change | |
| 新 新 | new; newly; meso- (chemistry) | |
| 吃 吃 | to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) | |
| 谁 誰 | who; also pr. [shuí] | |
| 喜欢 喜歡 | to like; to be fond of | |
| 跟 跟 | heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns) | |
| 地 地 | -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct | |
| 爱 愛 | to love; to be fond of; to like; affection; to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen) | |
| 怎么 怎麼 | how?; what?; why? | |
| 你们 你們 | you (plural) |