The Shepherd Girl

The Shepherd Girl 1964

山歌恋 shān gē 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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赚钱 賺錢 zhuàn qián to earn money; moneymaking HSK 6
惨 慘 cǎn miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy HSK 6
田 田 tián field; farm HSK 6
肯 肎 kěn to agree; to consent; to be willing to HSK 6
赌 賭 dǔ to bet; to gamble HSK 6
野 埜 yě field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral HSK 6
托 託 tuō to trust; to entrust; to be entrusted with; to act as trustee HSK 6
不见 不見 bù jiàn not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing 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
搭 搭 dā to put up; to build (scaffolding); to hang (clothes on a pole); to connect; to join; to arrange in pairs; to match; to add; to throw in (resources); to take (boat, train); variant of 褡 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
解 解 jiě to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection HSK 6
为何 為何 wèi hé why HSK 6
混 混 hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
岛 島 dǎo island 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
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
若 若 ruò to seem; like; as; if HSK 6
副 副 fù secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions 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
原 原 yuán former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source 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
因 囙 yīn cause; reason; because HSK 6
作 作 zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
如 如 rú as; as if; such as HSK 6
与 與 yǔ and; to give; together with HSK 6
死里逃生 死裡逃生 sǐ lǐ táo shēng mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape; to survive by the skin of one's teeth Idiom ∼HSK 5
偷偷摸摸 偷偷摸摸 tōu tōu - mō mō (idiom) surreptitious; sneaky Idiom ∼HSK 5
滚开 滾開 gǔn kāi (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
臭 臭 chòu stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) Xiehouyu HSK 5
慌 慌 huāng to get panicky; to lose one's head; (coll.) (after 得) unbearably; terribly Colloquialism HSK 5
敲锣 敲鑼 qiāo luó to beat a gong ∼HSK 5
姚 姚 Yáo handsome, elegant; surname ∼HSK 5
嫂 嫂 sǎo (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
娇 嬌 jiāo seductive and loveable; tender ∼HSK 5
癞 癩 lài leprosy, scabies, mange; shoddy ∼HSK 5
齿 齒 chǐ teeth; gears, cogs; age; simplified form of the KangXi radical number 211 ∼HSK 5
畜生 畜生 chù sheng domestic animal; brute; bastard ∼HSK 5
大姑 大姑 dà gū father's oldest sister; husband's older sister; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
鸟儿 鳥兒 niǎor bird ∼HSK 5
苍 蒼 Cāng blue; green ∼HSK 5
芜 蕪 wú luxurious growth of weeds ∼HSK 5
岗 崗 gāng post; position ∼HSK 5
铮 錚 zhēng clanging sound; small gong ∼HSK 5
知情 知情 zhī qíng to know the facts; to understand; to be familiar with the situation ∼HSK 5
乌鸦 烏鴉 wū yā crow; raven ∼HSK 5
怎能 怎能 zěn néng how can ∼HSK 5
说媒 說媒 shuō méi to act as a matchmaker ∼HSK 5
柴火 柴火 chái huo plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc) ∼HSK 5