Today I introduce you guys a very interesting Chinese movie:
Name: 天下无贼 (tiān xià wú zéi) [A World Without Thieves]
Type: Comedy
Year: 2004年12月6日
Time: 100分钟
Box office: 1亿 (100,000,000+)
It’s directed by the famous Chinese comercial film director Xiaogang Feng. Many celebrated Chinese movie stars including Andy Lau were participated. The movie tells a story that is happening on a common train running between a major city and country side. The leading role, Shagen (meaning ‘big fooler’), who has thousands of RMBs in his pocket going back to hometown for the spring new year, does not believe that there are a lot theives on such kind of a train. What he believes is that all people in the world are good and kind. And he confesses his impavidity to the public before getting on the train. Off course, theives, who do exist, in different packs, follow on him secretely all along the journey. They want to eat this big fat lamb, and begin to mediate for Shagen’s money, while Shagen does not know any thing happening…
The following is the famous saying by Uncle Fox (a leading theif):
“I have said a hundred times, we need team work, always seek the best in the team. The purpose of the trip, is to train our team in real situation and to test our new members.those deserving special praise are Little-leaf and Four-eyes. Although new to trade,they try hard,they have not only surpass themselves,but even the old guard here.”
“说了多少回了,要团结，眼睛要看这别人的长处。这次出来，一是通过实战锻炼队伍,二是考察新人，在这里我特别要表扬的是小叶和四眼。两位虽然刚刚入道，做人啊，不但突破了自己，也超越了在座的前辈。“
China has a long history of music. Unfortunately, in most archeology results, people find only titles and lyrics, not rhythms. However, ‘jasmine flower’ is an exception, probably because it’s so popular that there’s no need to record the rhythm. There are now more than 230 versions of ‘jasmine flower’ in present China and the most famous one is still the ‘Jiangsu’ version. And the lyrics are very short. Enjoy!
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The composer and singer is both guāngliáng. guāngliáng and pǐnguàn were once the band ‘wú yìn liáng pǐn’. But they departed several years ago. tónghuà is one of the most successful songs sang by guāngliáng after their separation. Here gives a rough transcription of the lyrics. Perhaps one needs to study some Chinese to know what they exactly mean. But anyway, it doesn’t matter if we only care about the rhythm.
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Typically, people borned in 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 are of the Chinese zodiac, Snake (shé, 蛇). But it’s not always true. Exceptions do exsist and we have a special topic on that.
Highlights of Lesson 6: ‘tiger head and snake tail’; review of four Chinese tones of six basic vowvels; ‘Is it…?’; ‘I eat …’; ‘what do you eat?’.
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Typically, people borned in 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000 are of the Chinese zodiac, Dragon (lóng, 龙). But it’s not always true. Exceptions do exsist and we have a special topic on that.
Highlights of Lesson 5: white dragon, yellow dragon; It’s lovely weather today; ‘what day is today?’; Monday through Sunday; ‘what is this?’; this is; ‘what is that?’; that is.
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