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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ge older brother HSK 1
jìn to go in HSK 1
fàn cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee HSK 1
dōng east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord HSK 1
shù tree; to cultivate; to set up HSK 1
饿 è to be hungry; hungry; to starve (sb) HSK 1
fu clothes HSK 1
chī fàn to have a meal; to eat; to make a living HSK 1
eight; 8 HSK 1
biān one side; either side; on the one hand; on the other hand; doing while HSK 1
huài bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost HSK 1
bān team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles HSK 1
lěi to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated HSK 1
huí qu to return; to go back HSK 1
fēng wind; news; style; custom; manner HSK 1
elder brother HSK 1
guān mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve HSK 1
to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots HSK 1
huí to reply; to answer; reply; answer HSK 1
cháng always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant HSK 1
yòng need not HSK 1
jiā home HSK 1
西 西 the West; abbr. for Spain 牙; Spanish HSK 1
shì to test; to try; experiment; examination; test HSK 1
nián last year HSK 1
bái white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera HSK 1
shuō huà to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word HSK 1
ér daughter HSK 1
tīng dào to hear HSK 1
kàn jiàn to see; to catch sight of HSK 1
shí ten; 10 HSK 1
máng busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush HSK 1
jīn nián this year HSK 1
shàng at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force) HSK 1
míng zi name (of a person or thing) HSK 1
bìng illness; disease; to fall ill; defect HSK 1
chàng to sing; to call loudly; to chant HSK 1
chū to go out HSK 1
fēi to fly HSK 1
where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 HSK 1
bàn half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half HSK 1
song; to sing HSK 1
de to remember HSK 1
bēi cup; trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup HSK 1
míng bai clear; obvious; unequivocal; to understand; to realize HSK 1
èr two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid HSK 1
kǒu mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls HSK 1
yuǎn far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) HSK 1
son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- HSK 1
zhēn de really, truly, indeed HSK 1