Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth 1984

黄土地 huángtǔ de

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.

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3.87 Beginner Director Chen Kaige 🍅 100%

Cast

Xue Bai Xue Bai Cuiqiao Wang Xueqi Wang Xueqi Gu Qing Tuo Tan The Father Quiang Liu Hanhan

Vocabulary

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添 添 tiān to add; to increase; to replenish HSK 6
新人 新人 xīn rén newcomer; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) Homo sapiens HSK 6
浮 浮 fú to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus HSK 6
泥 泥 ní mud; clay; paste; pulp HSK 6
咋 咋 zǎ dialectal equivalent of 怎么 HSK 6
刮 刮 guā to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort HSK 6
井 井 jǐng a well; neat; orderly HSK 6
扎 扎 zhá used in 挣扎 HSK 6
踩 跴 cǎi to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote HSK 6
顺 順 shùn to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable HSK 6
嗨 嗨 hāi oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword) 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
聊 聊 liáo to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly HSK 6
样 樣 yàng manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type 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
镇 鎮 zhèn to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) HSK 6
队伍 隊伍 duì wǔ ranks; troops; queue; line; procession HSK 6
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
啥 啥 shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
憨 憨 hān foolish, silly, coquettish ∼HSK 5
翠 翠 cuì color green; kingfisher ∼HSK 5
婆家 婆家 pó jiā husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into) ∼HSK 5
甘 甘 Gān sweetness; sweet, tasty ∼HSK 5
栓 栓 shuān wooden peg, post or stick ∼HSK 5
唛 嘜 mài mark ∼HSK 5
鸽 鴿 gē pigeon, dove; Columba species (various) ∼HSK 5
小姑 小姑 xiǎo gū father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
辫 辮 biàn braid; pigtail, plait, queue ∼HSK 5
厘 釐 lí thousandth part of tael ∼HSK 5
石板 石板 shí bǎn slab; flagstone; slate ∼HSK 5
炕 匟 kàng the brick-bed in northern China ∼HSK 5
二锅头 二鍋頭 èr guō tóu erguotou (sorghum liquor) ∼HSK 5
碟 碟 dié small dish, plate ∼HSK 5
崖 崖 yá cliff, precipice; precipitous ∼HSK 5
豌豆 豌豆 wān dòu pea (Pisum sativum) ∼HSK 5
锚 錨 máo anchor ∼HSK 5
河沟 河溝 hé gōu brook; ditch ∼HSK 5
媒人 媒人 méi ren go-between; matchmaker ∼HSK 5
彩礼 彩禮 cǎi lǐ betrothal gift; bride price ∼HSK 5
葫芦 葫蘆 húlu gourd ∼HSK 5
疆 疆 jiāng boundary, border, frontier ∼HSK 5
小鬼 小鬼 xiǎo guǐ little demon (term of endearment for a child); mischievous child; imp ∼HSK 5
可比 可比 kě bǐ comparable ∼HSK 5
我操 我操 wǒ cào (substitute for) fuck; WTF ∼HSK 5
肠子 腸子 cháng zi intestines ∼HSK 5
遭 遭 zāo encounter, suffer ∼HSK 5
哩 哩 lǐ mile ∼HSK 5
饥荒 饑荒 jī huāng crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty ∼HSK 5