The Shepherd Girl

The Shepherd Girl 1964

shān liàn

Julie Yeh Feng stars as Hsiu Hsiu, a beautiful singing shepherdess who falls head over heels in love with a handsome boatman named Liu Ta Lung. Unfortunately, she can't afford to marry her new beau because her father has racked up numerous debts due to his uncontrollable gambling addiction. And to make matters even more complicated, there's a rival suitor who promises to pay off all of her no-good father's debts on the condition that he is given Hsiu Hsiu's hand in marriage. She initially declines his offer, but starts to get jealous when she sees Ta Lung getting a little too close for comfort with another woman. In retaliation, she starts flirting with her possible benefactor/husband-to-be. But what Hsiu Hsiu doesn't know is that her jealousy isn't based on any actual unfaithfulness, but on an unfortunate misunderstanding!

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Vocabulary

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hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
de (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking ∼HSK 1
nán ér a (real) man; boy; son ∼HSK 1
Hàn Chinese people; Chinese language ∼HSK 1
lǎo èr second-eldest child in a family; (euphemism) penis ∼HSK 1
zhàn lai to stand up ∼HSK 1
biǎo zi prostitute; whore ∼HSK 1
chū qián to pay ∼HSK 1
huí gone forever ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
shàng fēng on the up; currently winning; rising (in popularity etc) ∼HSK 1
xiǎo xiǎo very small; very few; very minor ∼HSK 1
rén yǐng the shadow of a human figure; a trace of a person's presence (usu. combined with a negative verb) ∼HSK 1
shuǐ waterway ∼HSK 1
西 西 dōng nán běi east, south, west and north; all directions ∼HSK 1
rén lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams ∼HSK 1
gēn zhe to follow after; immediately afterwards ∼HSK 1
hǎo several; quite a few ∼HSK 1
gēn bān attendant; footman (servant) ∼HSK 1
zěn me zhāo what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5] ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
mén wài outside the door ∼HSK 1
unlike ∼HSK 1
xiǎng chū to figure out; to work out (a solution etc); to think up; to come up with (an idea etc) ∼HSK 1
shí jiǔ nineteen; 19 ∼HSK 1
měi tiān every day ∼HSK 1
sòng don't bother to see me out ∼HSK 1
wèn to pay no attention to; to disregard; to ignore; to let go unpunished; to let off ∼HSK 1
hǎo wán amusing; fun; interesting ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
zhǎo zháo to find ∼HSK 1
zuó wǎn yesterday evening; last night ∼HSK 1
wài rén outsider; foreigner; stranger ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
西 西 mǎi dōng xi to do one's shopping ∼HSK 1
bàn ge half of sth ∼HSK 1
kuài diǎn to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! ∼HSK 1
zài hòu behind ∼HSK 1
hǎo nián several years ∼HSK 1
ge (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) ∼HSK 1
zháo huā to blossom; to come to flower; to be in bloom ∼HSK 1
chàng antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus); sung reply (in agreement with first voice); to reply with a poem in the same rhythm ∼HSK 1
huān happy, pleased, glad; joy; enjoy ∼HSK 1
each one individually; each and every ∼HSK 1
you and I; everyone; all of us (in society); we (people in general) ∼HSK 1
dòng kǒu to use one's mouth (to say sth) ∼HSK 1
sòng to send to; to deliver to; to give sb a lift (e.g. in a car) ∼HSK 1
nián nián year after year; yearly; every year; annually ∼HSK 1
yǒu le I've got a solution!; to have a bun in the oven ∼HSK 1
fēng gale ∼HSK 1