The Forbidden Past

The Forbidden Past 1976

小楼残梦 xiǎo lóu cán mèng

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.

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曲子 曲子 qǔ zi poem for singing; tune; music HSK 6
来往 來往 lái wǎng to come and go; to have dealings with; to be in relation with HSK 6
海外 海外 hǎi wài overseas; abroad HSK 6
要不然 要不然 yào bù rán otherwise; or else; or HSK 6
好不容易 好不容易 hǎo bù róng yì with great difficulty; very difficult HSK 6
有事 有事 yǒu shì to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter HSK 6
片刻 片刻 piàn kè short period of time; a moment HSK 6
平凡 平凡 píng fán commonplace; ordinary; mediocre HSK 6
头疼 頭疼 tóu téng headache HSK 6
想不到 想不到 xiǎng bu dào unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that HSK 6
晓得 曉得 xiǎo de to know HSK 6
净 淨 jìng clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role HSK 6
刚好 剛好 gāng hǎo just; exactly; to happen to be HSK 6
欺负 欺負 qī fu to bully HSK 6
街头 街頭 jiē tóu street HSK 6
算了 算了 suàn le let it be; let it pass; forget about it HSK 6
赚钱 賺錢 zhuàn qián to earn money; moneymaking HSK 6
天堂 天堂 tiān táng paradise; heaven HSK 6
炸 炸 zhá to deep fry; Taiwan pr. [zhà] HSK 6
圣诞节 聖誕節 Shèng dàn jié Christmas time; Christmas season; Christmas HSK 6
餐 餐 cān meal; to eat; classifier for meals HSK 6
原谅 原諒 yuán liàng to excuse; to forgive; to pardon HSK 6
嗨 嗨 hāi oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) HSK 6
上帝 上帝 Shàng dì God HSK 6
负 負 fù to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) HSK 6
再说 再說 zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
赚 賺 zhuàn to earn; to make a profit HSK 6
算是 算是 suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
理 理 lǐ texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up HSK 6
服 服 fú clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
错过 錯過 cuò guò to miss (train, opportunity etc) HSK 6
允许 允許 yǔn xǔ to permit; to allow HSK 6
尽 儘 jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
逼 偪 bī to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 HSK 6
不再 不再 bù zài no more; no longer HSK 6
如 如 rú as; as if; such as HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
于 于 yú (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
青梅竹马 青梅竹馬 qīng méi zhú mǎ lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom); fig. innocent children's games; childhood sweethearts; a couple who grew up as childhood friends Idiom ∼HSK 5
礼拜 禮拜 lǐ bài to attend a religious service; (coll.) week; (coll.) Sunday Colloquialism HSK 5
收拾 收拾 shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
秒 秒 miǎo second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly Colloquialism HSK 5
慈 慈 cí kind, charitable, benevolent ∼HSK 5
莉 莉 lì white jasmine ∼HSK 5
恒 恆 Héng constant, regular, persistent ∼HSK 5
芬 芬 fēn fragrance, aroma; perfume ∼HSK 5
超级市场 超級市場 chāo jí shì chǎng supermarket ∼HSK 5
斜阳 斜陽 xié yáng setting sun ∼HSK 5
秒钟 秒鐘 miǎo zhōng (time) second ∼HSK 5
帐 帳 zhàng tent; account ∼HSK 5