The Mirror and the Lichee 1967
新陈三五娘
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.
Vocabulary
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| 放心 放心 | to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease | |
| 大人 大人 | adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors | |
| 的话 的話 | if (coming after a conditional clause) | |
| 早就 早就 | already at an earlier time | |
| 放下 放下 | to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc) | |
| 答应 答應 | to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise | |
| 随便 隨便 | as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton | |
| 灯 燈 | lamp; light; lantern | |
| 颜色 顏色 | color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff | |
| 吹 吹 | to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through | |
| 轻 輕 | light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage | |
| 黄 黃 | yellow; pornographic; to fall through | |
| 墙 牆 | wall | |
| 千 千 | thousand | |
| 平 平 | flat; level; equal; to tie (make the same score); to draw (score); calm; peaceful; abbr. for 平声 | |
| 出口 出口 | an exit; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port | |
| 亮 亮 | bright; clear; resonant; to shine; to show; to reveal | |
| 急 急 | urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious | |
| 纸 紙 | paper; classifier for documents, letter etc | |
| 鸟 鳥 | bird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196); (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddamn | |
| 交给 交給 | to give; to deliver; to hand over | |
| 借 借 | to lend; to borrow; by means of; to take (an opportunity) | |
| 不行 不行 | won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable | |
| 怎么办 怎麼辦 | what's to be done | |
| 小心 小心 | to be careful; to take care | |
| 咱们 咱們 | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men] | |
| 怎么样 怎麼樣 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 表 表 | exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth) | |
| 实在 實在 | really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality | |
| 听说 聽說 | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking | |
| 笔 筆 | pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money, deals | |
| 取 取 | to take; to get; to choose; to fetch | |
| 日子 日子 | day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life | |
| 正是 正是 | is precisely | |
| 通 通 | to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc | |
| 刚才 剛才 | just now; a moment ago | |
| 样子 樣子 | appearance; manner; pattern; model | |
| 画 畫 | to draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划); stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 划); (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 划) | |
| 就要 就要 | will; shall; to be going to | |
| 改 改 | to change; to alter; to transform; to correct | |
| 嘴 嘴 | mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc) | |
| 假 假 | used in 掰 | |
| 不少 不少 | many; a lot; not few | |
| 查 查 | to research; to check; to investigate; to examine; to refer to; to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary) | |
| 意思 意思 | idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc | |
| 满 滿 | Manchu ethnic group | |
| 低 低 | low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline | |
| 怕 怕 | to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps | |
| 哭 哭 | to cry; to weep | |
| 收 收 | to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name) |