"China Film Corporation" "China Central Television Station" "Beijing Forbidden City Film Ltd." "Gada Meilin" "Starring Erbus Liu Wei" "Delige'er Tumen" "Script Writer, Director, Cameraman:" "Feng Xiaoning" "The Beginning of the 20th Century" "Bring me the chicken." "Why didn't you pay attention to me?" "Is your body up for wrestling?" "You're a girl, aren't you?" "Let's see if you are a man!" "How dare you!" "Barter, hit him!" "Gada, hit him!" "Let him know you are a real man." "If you win, I'll give you koumiss to drink." "Little Peony, pass me the koumiss..." "So, whoever wins will get the koumiss." "No, I want Gada to drink it." "Stop!" "What's the matter?" "Anything to do with you?" "What are you fooling us with?" "The head of the bandits has been caught." "He is blamed for rebelling and gathering against the reclaimation of grassland." "Daring to resisting the court's basic policy of reclaiming grassland." "He and his family will be executed." "According to Dar Khan's law, you may make a last request." "Can I sleep with your wifejust once?" "Kill him!" "Little bastard, don't blame others." "You were reincarnated in the wrong body." "According to Dar Khan's law, you may make your last request." "Drinks!" "What?" "Drinks." "Does koumiss taste good?" "Kill him!" "Look!" "Sandstorm!" "Where are you going?" "To the other side of the clouds." "Gada, will you keep wrestling?" "I can't beat Barter." "Then what are you going to do when you grow up?" "When I grow up, I want to be a Meilin." "Why would you be a Meilin?" "If I were Meilin, nobody would bully us." "Then you will be Gada Meilin." "You owe me the koumiss sack, Gada Meilin!" "Twenty Years Later..." "Gada, go back to pack up." "We are going to a remote place, tojoin the Sahan Nadam Fair." "People from various Banners will be there." "His Royal Highness expects you to win in horse racing." "No need to exercise." "No one on the Kelqing steppe can beat me in wrestling." "Stop singing." "The Prince is coming." "Barter, beat them for me." "Even the finest horse needs a saddle, and the ugliest crow needs feathers." "Sorry." "Hunters carry bows and arrows, and horse breakers carry lassos." "Where are you from?" "We come from Dar Khan, tojoin the Nadam Fair." "This is Barter, the best wrestler of our Dar Khan." "What about you?" "Me?" "You can't beat him?" "He is as strong as an ox." "An eagle would never complain about the height of the sky." "Good-bye." "Peony, let's go!" "Wrestler, see you at Nadam Fair!" "Gada, you still owe me the koumiss sack." "Your Highness, this is the man I mentioned to you..." "Ueno Tsuchi, head of Sasae Company of the Japanese Empire to Manchuria and Mongolia." "He is especially interested in the land located in the wasteland of northern Liaoning." "But that's a good pastureland." "Yes, good land and good grass." "As I havejust come here, I want to present you a small gift." "With our strength, our future goals will not be limited to a small piece of grassland." "This is the latest Western product." "Shewang, take this as an award." "I have learned that you have bought a few good horses..." "I can't accept this gift as I didn't make any contribution." "Or, give it to Barter." "He is going to win the first cloth cap for your Highness." "Since it's yours, you may do as you like." "His Royal Highness has a bet against the governor of Lu Bei County, and it will completely depend on you." "No one in Kelqing can win me in wrestling." "Gada, you have been an eagle on the steppe." "His Royal Highness wants Barter to win." "This time, it will be the end of Buheqing, and his Royal Highness will win a lot of money." "Gada, you will be a loser forever." "Gada, you will never win me." "Gada, what are you doing?" "In the next horse race, you will surely be number one." "You need to let his Royal Highness have a draw at least." "Did his Royal Highness get angry, and punish you by sending you far away on business?" "Barter too." "Why?" "Because he could not beat me." "Where to?" "Inside Shanhaiguan Pass, to take goods." "It will take half a month." "So long?" "His Highness sends us through the desert." "Why don't you take the main road?" "I am leaving tomorrow." "Will you... return to Dar Khan?" "Is the Lama Pagoda still there?" "You still owe me a koumiss sack." "How long have Gada and the other one gone?" "Nearly a month." "Now, there is fighting everywhere." "May I bring some people to meet them?" "That is the way back." "Where have you come from?" "Inside Shanhaiguan Pass." "Where are you going?" "Kelqing." "Are you going to do business?" "I am looking for some one." "Baby!" "How much money did you receive to get the official documents ready?" "I hope everyone will benefit." "This is the benefit?" "People all know that in Dar Khan, you have a lot of say." "Then, how much do you need?" "Don't try to buy me with money." "Did you return all of the money?" "All of the money has been returned." "Good, don't let them fool us." "Finally, they once again invited you to go to the provincial capital." "What do you think about it?" "Go." "Don't move, everyone." "It's none of others' business." "I could have killed you with one bullet, but I want to make it clear before you die." "Who are you?" "Twenty years ago, the Dar Khan family owed my family a life..." "Since ancient times, fathers' debts must be payed by their sons." "Today, I have payed what I owed." "I have repayed it, too." "The guns of Dar Khan must be in the hands of the most loyal." "From now on, you will be the Meilin of our Banner Guards." "With me, Dar Khan will be safe." "Everything will be in your hands." "Stay assured, your Highness." "I have been bullied since my childhood." "Now, his Highness finally thinks highly of me." "So, you can bully others?" "No, I want to serve his Highness, and to ensure the people of Dar Khan enjoy a good life." "Gada, what if his Highness thinks different from the people?" "I have grown up, why you still call me Gada?" "Then, what should I call you?" "What do you think?" "Gada Meilin." "Dad, I need a roll." "Tian Jiliang, this is for you." "His Highness needs your advice." "I'll come in a minute." "Thank you." "The view is good here." "This is the best grassland in Kelqing." "But it's a pity that it won't last long." "His Highness is going to sell the wasteland of Liaobei." "Sell it?" "Is his Highness going to sell land again?" "If the steppe is sold, where will the villagers go?" "His Highness is a heavy smoker of opium, he has big expenses." "If he doesn't sell his land, where can he get money?" "Sir Meilin, I heard his Highness is going to sell the land." "Then where will we go?" "Er'Ji, don't worry, with Gada Meilin here, the people of Dar Khan will never suffer." "Uncle, there won't be a good harvest!" "The grass has been dug away, leaving only sand." "In the coming year, when the soil is blown away by the wind, there will only be sand left." "The steppe will never be reclaimed." "What have you heard these days?" "Your Highness, people are talking about the land sale." "There were not only Mongolian herdsmen on the steppe, but also Han farmers." "Once the land is sold, people will be cut off from their means of living." "Kelqing is a large area." "Why can't they live in another place." "The land they could move to is all desert without any grass." "There is only death waiting for them." "Your Highness, please think again." "Gada, don't be too definite in what you say." "We are not the first ones to reclaim desert." "In the Qing Dynasty, the old Prince sold about ten thousand acres of steppe in Dongjiahuang and Liaoyuanhuang..." "And this led to the anti-reclaiming uprising of the Mongolian and Han people." "Wejust follow your Highness." "Right now, rebels are rising everywhere." "The government can't even protect itself." "We can only rely on our Banner's guards to protect ourselves." "How can we get ammunition without money?" "The steppe is the lifeblood of the people." "Selling the land or not should be decided by the people." "The steppe has belonged to the Princes since ancient times." "Does his highness need the people's opinion to do what he wants?" "Now it is the time of the Republic..." "Well, now I make the decision." "Sell it!" "This isjust a token." "Please accept it." "Gada, I can't do this to offend the people." "The government's army is coming tomorrow," "I am afraid the villagers will be hurt." "Why don't you talk about it with His Highness." "How could I dare?" "His Highness trusts you best." "He probably would listen to you." "Has the matter been settled?" "People are complaining everywhere." "All of them are against selling the land." "The steppe was left by our ancestors." "Please consider for our descendents." "The steppe is not a piece of wasteland." "Once it is plowed up, the soil will go with the wind, leaving only sand." "Within ten years, thousand miles of steppe in Kelqing will change into desert." "Sir, this is our home, the farmland we toil on." "Make way." "We are not rebelling, but..." "The grass on the grassland can feed cattle, but it can also become a raging fire." "Your Highness, you are the owner of Dar Khan." "You must care about the life of the people." "Are you leavingjust like this, your Highness!" "Gada, you are Meilin." "You have to know the difficulty of the Prince's house." "As a Meilin, if I fail to save the people from disaster," "I would be derelict in my duties." "I will help you out." "From now on, you are no longer a Meilin." "I won't forget you saving my life on the execution ground." "However... this time, the Prince has his army backing him..." "In the past, your father led 3,000 Mongolian and Han people against reclaiming, and was known in the north of Liaoning." "The tiger's son is still a tiger." "But now I have only about a dozen armed people." "I doubt if I can do anything great." "Take care of yourself, hero." "Dad, are we moving?" "Where will we move to?" "All of us have signed our names here." "Please submit it to the government, to let them know the wrongful treatment the people on the steppe have suffered." "You are the Meilin." "We can't but rely on you." "I am no longer the Meilin." "I am happy you are no longer the Meilin." "Without offering any protection to the people, even if you were the Meilin your whole life, you could only be a lackey." "May heaven bless you." "Down with imperialism and the warlord!" "Long live freedom and liberation of China!" "Who is your leader?" "What's the matter?" "The lands of our herdsmen have been occupied by force." "Where should I go to reason things out?" "Look at all those government agencies." "Are they places for reasoning?" "So we have no way to live?" "Right in south China, there is an army." "For the sake of the people's lands, they want to build a country for our people!" "Then, do you have it here?" "You are now the Director of the Bureau of Reclaiming." "Who are you?" "Barter?" "Are youjoining me for a drink?" "It's the order of his Highness." "Gada, I am the Meilin now." "Congratulations." "Gada!" "I wish to see the Governor in person." "What's the matter?" "100,000 Mongolian and Han People in Dar Khan have entrusted me to submit this petition to you, and expect the Governor and your Highness to withdraw the decision to sell the land." "Gada, don't you have a brain?" "Don't you see what time and place this is?" "The herdsmen have no way to live." "They are waiting for the answer from the government." "You want the government to follow your opinion?" "The matters of the Prince's house are taken care of by his Highness, and the matters of the government are taken care of by the officials." "As a citizen, you don't act obediently, and come here to make trouble." "It's downright outrageous!" "We have been driven to desperation, and come to report to the government." "How can it be taken as making trouble?" "Matters in China are so difficult to tackle." "All because of you, you near-sighted wretch!" "That the people can not lead peaceful lives is because of you, the devil draining people's blood and eating people's flesh!" "Ba-ge-ya-lu!" "Japanese?" "Your Highness..." "Your Highness, the Japanese are colluding with the government." "They are trying to occupy our steppe, you..." "Gada!" "Your Highness!" "The grass on the steppe can feed cattle, but it can also become a raging fire." "If the people are forced to desperation..." "Gada, are you trying to instigate rebellion?" "Since the ancient times, people's rebellions have been forced by the rulers." "If you keep oppressing and exploiting people cruelly, you will pay, sooner or later." "Mom, Dad is back." "Dad... get down!" "They colluded with the rebelling bandits to resist the House of the Prince, seduce the people and insult the government;" "he will be executed publicly tomorrow to purify people's minds and rectify people's morale." "Shackles!" "Run away, hurry!" "Mom!" "Who wants to be executed first." "According to Dar Khan's law," "I may make a last request." "Yes, you may." "I want both of us to die at the same time." "As you are my fellow-villagers, you will get what you request." "Wait!" "I have a request, too." "What is it?" "My husband shouldn't die on his knees!" "Your Highness... 20 years of hatrad for killing my father is doomed to be settled today." "With heaven above us, people of Dar Khan," "I am the same as you are." "Either Manchurian, Mongolian, Han or Hui, all of us have grown up on this piece of land and steppe." "The piece of land and steppe beneath us was given us by heaven, and by our ancestors." "We mustn't pass it on as a desert." "Without a water course, the water may reach over the dyke, without a way to live, the people rebel." "Whoever hurts the people pays with his life." "The man who swears to heaven is me, Gada Meilin..." "Hold up your guns!" "Fire!" "Your Highness, the government army has been finished." "Call Barter." "More government troops will be here." "We need to get in touch with other forces." "What we need badly is ammo." "Let me go to Prince Wendu'er for support." "He is against selling the grassland, too, and also signed the petition of the 10,000." "Only by getting people together, can we resist the government army." "The road to Wendu'er is guarded by the government army." "We can cut through the lake-side." "Let me go." "Prince Wendu'er isn'tjust anybody," "I 'll go to him myself." "His Highness guessed you would go to Wendu'er." "He asked me to bring back your head," "I have been waiting here for two days." "Congratulations." "Your head is worth 10,000 silver dollars." "Congratulations to you again." "His Highness's order is not to be violated." "Then, he ran away?" "Yes, I had a shot, but I missed." "Your Highness, the battery is in position." "Battery?" "About a dozen cannons." "We are going to attack today." "Welcome, brother." "It is one to one between us." "A draw." "Deputy Commander, the second battalion has occupied Duqingmiao, and the third battalion has blocked the west Lamulun River, cutting off Gada Meilin's way of retreating." "According to warcraft, carrying out war on the plain, whoever occupies the commanding elevation can have the initiative." "Pull up all the cannons." "Go ahead facing the wind." "Gada Meilin is running away to the left." "That's a stretch of water and grass land." "Gada Meilin has retreated into a marsh, which is unfavorable for the movement of cavalry." "Look, the three sides are marsh, only the side facing us is dry grass land." "They are bandits indeed." "They know nothing of warfare." "Open fire." "The grass on the steppe can feed cattle." "But it can become a raging fire, too." "Gada Meilin is known to be powerful." "He only deserves to be cannon fodder." "It is the season of the withering of grass." "A single spark can start a blazing fire, especially at the down wind position where we are now..." "The grass on the steppe can feed cattle, but it can become a raging fire, too." "Order." "Stand up, all of you, the deputy of commander has an order." "Withdraw..." "We have to try to settle them down." "He can be sent to my sister's home," "I will see to it, but I want to stay with you." "I want to stay with you too." "I'll come to take you back in a few days." "I want to play a rolling with you." "Fine." "Go play." "Gada Meilin, we admire you." "You are the hero of the Mongolians." "So I come to extend to you my regards." "If you uphold the banner of independence, we will provide you with ammunition." "Independence?" "If this event develops, the Eastern Shanhaiguan Army may send out their forces." "You will provide ammo?" "Yes." "Let the Chinese fight against Chinese?" "Yes." "Without ammo, you are doomed." "But we are going to die standing." "Rob them, son of bitch!" "They are trying to find an excuse." "Why are the Japanese getting involved?" "Go back to tell the Prince," "I, Gada Meilin, take national integrity as an important principle, and wish to negotiate a peace accord with the government." "There is only one condition." "That is to return the land to the people, and to offer them a way to live." "Yes." "As you are from inside Shanhaiguan, do you know there is an army in the south, that is fighting for the land of our people?" "A subordinate of mine has seen them, it is a group of fearless heroes." "They are ready to fight for the people, and they are led by the Communist Party." "Our force is also for our villagers' land." "Should we ally with them?" "It will be great if we can link up with them." "I will try to get some ammo." "I saved the life of the governor of Lubei, it should be alright for me to borrow some ammo from him." "Government officials are dangerous," "Be careful." "We will wait at Hongge'er rambling yurt." "Peony, you and Barter, go first to the rambling yurt at Hongge'er to wait for me." "Tell Barter to drink less wine." "Is there any wine?" "The wine was stolen by governement soldiers." "No?" "Let me see." "No wine?" "What is this?" "What a bandit." "You dare to curse me?" "Old man, what is wrong with you?" "What are we doing?" "Why should we rise up?" "Should we harm the people just like the government army did?" "I have sworn to heaven." "Nobody is allowed to harm the people." "It is one to one between us." "A draw." "I have got the ammo." "Am I doing wrong?" "Am I bringing blood shed to Dar Khan?" "Blood might still be shed without you." "Gada," "His Highness sent me to negotiate on a peace accord." "If an agreement is reached, the lands can be returned to all of you." "His Highness will see you in person at the Yellow Flower rambling yurt." "Gada, it won't do any good to either of us to continue to fight against each other." "Why can't we sit down and have a good talk?" "Then, how about you?" "I will go with you tomorrow." "Does the Prince accept his failure?" "Since we are not going to fight any longer, we can come home." "Let the Prince return the cattle to us." "Is the Prince sincere?" "He has to put an end to the event." "He must have understood everything." "As it is arranged, the brothers and I won't go." "You go ahead with your business." "The issues between the Prince and me haven't been settled yet." "I will always be your brother." "People are all busy packing their belongings." "Have you made up your mind?" "We have given the government a taste of our strength." "Now it is possible for them to try to make concession." "I have led the uprising, not for money, nor any official position." "I fight for a peaceful life of our people, and the freedom as human beings." "Freedom?" "That is free from bullies and living freely." "So long as there is little hope, we must do our best." "Find time to take Tianjiliang back," "It's time to return home." "So long as there are women and kids, we will have hope forever." "The Prince has arrived." "Gada, let's go." "Don't go." "Well." "Your Highness, they are coming." "Gada Meilin wishes to know the Prince's conditions for the peace accord." "You are not qualified." "Let him come see me in person." "Stop!" "Withdraw!" "Prince, you are breaking your faith with this secret plot," "You are filth!" "Don't blame me for neglecting brotherhood," "I am acting according to Dar Khan's law." "Gada Meilin!" "Prince, either kill or cut me into pieces." "I will see to it myself." "Release all of the people and the kids!" "Don't go!" "Prince, release the people." "Release the kids..." "Wait." "Wait for all of the people to come out..." "My husband mustn't die on his knees." "Prince, where are you?" "Why dare not you come out!" "Let's rush out." "Brother, all the ammo is ineffective!" "Brothers, attack!" "Gada Meilin, I am sorry." "You bring the kids to cross the river." "Hurry up." "We'll resist." "You go, I'll resist." "The steppe can't be without you." "So long as there are women and kids..." "Gada, what do you want when you grow up?" "I am going to be a Meilin." "Gada Meilin!" "In 1931, the uprising led by Gada Meilin failed." "At the same time, the Kelqing steppe was gradually reduced into a desert..." "The little geese flying from the south would never take off without stopping at the long river;" "Gada Meilin's uprising was fought for the land of the Mongolian people." "The wild geese of the north flying to the south are searching for the warmth of the sun;" "Gada Meilin's uprising was fought for the land of the Mongolian people." "Subtitle Production Staff" "Supervisor:" "Lu Jun" "Chinese Subtitle:" "Xu Wencai" "Chinese Subtitle Editor:" "Jing Yuanhua" "Translator:" "Proofreader:" "Director of Subtitle Production:" "Li Yongquan" "Subtitled by Center of International Cultural Exchange" "Jointly Produced by:" "The Third Film Studio, China Film Group" "The Literature and Art Program Center of China Central Television Station" "Beijing Forbidden City Film Ltd."