"Beijing Film Academy Youth Film Studio" "Qingchun ji (1985) Sacrificed Youth *china poetic film classic*" "Adapted from the nouvelle "There was a beautiful place"" "Origianl novel by Zhang Manling" "Cinematographer:" "Mu Deyuan, Deng Wei Composer:" "Liu Suola" "When I was seventeen," "My mother and I just left my exiled father." "My mother also sent me to the railway station." "We left the noiseful city," "Stepped on the train, then changed to truck," "We walked several days in sinuate alleys." "At last, those schoolmates with me were distributed in several different villages." "A kind of feeling lost is stronger and stronger," "I can't forget that kind of mood so far." "This is the first time I see daqing tree, I'm a little bit scared." "The indigenes call it dragon tree," "As the old folklore, it will rise from the ground and fly into the sky, just like dragon, and it will draw violent storm, flood here" "Whenever peoples find it bleeding, they will bind up it with a red fabric, make it unable to fly away, to protect the peace of here." "Director/Screenwriter:" "Zhang Nuanxin" "The host of the family I settled provisionally is the president of a rural cooperative society." "He's a taciturn person." "But later I knew he can speak Chinese with great fluency." "You can live in here, this is Ya." ""Ya" means "Grandma" in Dai language, she's Dadie's 90 yrs old mother, She make me bethinking a old witch in fairy tale." "Afterward, I dreamed several times that she's flying in the sky with a broom." "This is a simply and underpopulated family," "Dadie's wife has died several years ago, He has only 1 son, lives in the hill for firing." "Those various swords on the wall make me thinking he would be a youthful hunter." "I think there must a tiger-skin tied around his waist, just like those ancient warriors." " Dadie!" " En?" "From now on, I'm a regular member of Dai village, I resolved to chasten myself in labour..." "Here, take this!" "You are too tired, need a good sleep at first." "Yibo is the most beautiful girl in the village," "She's so pretty, so haughty, just like a princess." "I don't know why that I always feel unconfident in the face of her." "In Dai village, carry water is woman's work." "If a man goes to carry water, he will be laughed by other villagers." "Before I come, Dadie carries water all the while." "People says, he always go out to carry water before day, he'll hide behind the tree as soon as anybody appears." " Go along with those pushao, "pushao" means "girl" in Dai language." " En." "Every time I go out to work, ya always put lunch in my bamboo canister, and then put hot cakes into my hand." "Ya always standing on the doorway, watching me." "Her genial and dim gaze, make me bethinking my childhood." "I don't understand what they are singing, but I know they are attracting and flirting each other." "Girls from city also want attract other peoples, but they dare not." "Yet Dai girls always compete each other in a big way, to see who's the most attractive girl." "Looking at them, I feel so tired and despondent," "I'm unable to work, as well as unable to live, I'm a vapid person." "After a whole day's work, Dai girls always swim naked in the river." "Yet me, only watching them primly, cause I didn't take my swimsuit." "Afterward, I learnt swimming naked like them, and never wear those sticky swimsuits anymore." "Aila - 8 points, Aishuan - 8 points, Yixiang - 9 points, Yitan - 8 points ..." "Li Chun, 7 points!" "Li Chun is come from city, she's educated, but she never did our labors," "6 points is more suitable, when she learned more, we can increase her point at that time." "Yibo, 10 points!" "Other girls are all rated 8 points, but Yibo is rated 10 points," "Boys say she's "Duolinuo", "Duolinuo" means "pretty" in Dai language, pretty = 2 points?" "It's so unfair." "Ya is the oldest grandma in the village, once I saw ya came downstairs, touching my floral skirt with her hands," "She's touching and touching, watching and watching..." "It's dusk at that time, I feel the yard in the afterglow is so warm..." "After you came here, ya's energy is better than before." "What kind of thing her likes?" "There's nothing need when a person is too old, ya just like you stay at home." "It's been a long time haven't a girl live at home." "You'd better stay at home for a bit more times, invite your girlfriends to here playing with you." "En." "Jierou!" "(Li Chun's dai nickname)" "Yibo!" "I'm here." "Come here." "Look, this is my room." "Come in." "Ah!" "So many books..." "Read at your will." "Look, this is my hometown." "Oh, really beautiful!" "Jierou, tomorrow we'll climb up hill to chop wood, you can't do it, you'd better go to oldie team to do some easier work in the garden." "Dadie, I don't wanna go to oldie team tomorrow, why they always let me go to oldie team?" "!" "They were afraid that you couldn't carry those big wood." "Nope!" "I finished all my works every time." "They always look down upon me!" "They never look down upon you," "They just don't like your costume." "They say your this ashy clothing is too botchy among them." "You are a youthful girl, why not slick up yourself?" "Dai girls are all love beauty." "Beauty is such an important thing originally." "Since childhood till now, people always teach us the inward reflections is more important than outward beauty." "I always wash a new clothing again and again without sake, hope it looks older and older," "I've never thought a girl should dress up herself beautiful." "Ya wanna wanna give you a silver girdle." "Now you looks more like our village girls." "Ah, finally you put on our Dai skirt, you are really beautiful!" "You should wear our green earring." "Let's go." "Jierou!" "Duolinuo!" "Jierou Duolinuo!" "Come on everybody!" "Looking the mirror!" "..." "1 jiao each one...very cheap!" "Slow down!" "Don't crowd!" "..." "Don't jump the queue!" "Nobody could forget that small postoffice in the strange land," "In that times of turbulence," "Those exiled educated youths from all corners of the country always gather in here to mail their yearns to faraway folks." "Mother always says in her letter that father is still in exiling, he has no hope to get back to the city." "You must not meet accident again." "Teacher always says in his letter:" "Don't forget the study, you should review the lesson regularly." "These distant reminders always give me more hopes." "Lack 1 cent!" "Please give me two 8-cent stamps." "Here, give you." "We are townees from the same place, we should help each other." "We have the same accent." "Which village you are living?" "I'll give it back to you next time." "Next time?" "Next time you couldn't pay off...or you could bring me some delicious pignut, capsicum...haha" "How much?" "Hahaha..." "Li Chun!" "Why did you wear this skirt?" "...and earrings..." "You looks really beautiful...haha" "Let's go to that bookstall." "Don't crowd...don't crowd..." " Hey comrade, do you have a newer one of this?" " No, only this one." "Don't snatch!" "..." "It's mine!" "..." "I'll buy it!" "..." "Which book?" "Ah, you wanna be a doctor?" "There's no doctor in my village, so I wanna learn some medicinal general knowledges." "Hey!" "Who are you?" "Where are you living?" " Are you ok?" " Sorry." "The day I wore Dai skirt is the most magical day in my whole life." "On the road of going market, I met so many unusual things, just like Cinderella wore crystal shoe." "I never thought this costume has so big witchcraft inside..." "Come on, I take you there." "You again!" "Help me a hand!" "Is this oxcart easy to drive?" "You can try it." "You are expert, the ox don't wanna follow my orders." "I was really puzzled at the moment I saw your costume in postoffice." "Many schoolmates always laugh at my Dai costume." "Since you dare wear it, you shouldn't dare anybody's tease." "Did you dare those gossips?" "Walk on our own road, forget about other's word." " Are you student of the 24th high school?" " Yes." "I heard there was a girl in your school, submitted a love letter which a boy wrote to her to the principal, is it true?" "No, she was not afraid, she just reported her thoughts." "Hum..." "I don't know why that schoolboy like a hidebound girl..." "I arrived." " Dage(Dadie's son) is back." " Really?" "Dage!" "Where's ya?" " Can it be eaten?" " Sure." "Delicious." " Jierou, who took you back at that day?" " A schoolmate." "Schoolmate?" "Why we never saw him before?" " Jierou, he must fall in love with you, isn't it?" " Nope!" "Don't bullshit." " You don't need so strained, this is a good thing." " I didn't lie, our Han peoples would never in love so early." "Once I was chopping wood in the forest, suddenly I found I was scattered with other girls." "I heard Dage said there's a huge bear in the forest," "It's the first time I feel a kind of deep horror which lost in this dark huge forest." "Jierou!" "Jierou!" "Dage!" "Dage!" "I'm here!" "(Dai Language)" "That night, all villagers were not sleep, they were looking around me everywhere." "In my memories, Dage has never get into so big temper." "But, at that time, I won't admit that his cares already beyond a usual brother-sister relation." "Let me see." "Why this knife is not bright?" "You don't know, this is a very good knife, it will more and more bright when you ground it." "Do you like it?" "I can borrow you for a few days." "Borrow?" "Why not give it to me?" "Sorry, I can't." "I found it more than 100 kilometers away." "My brother Dage's sword is far better than this useless knife." "even can cut off thick trees like this." "So why you still want this useless one?" "Give it back to me." "You are niggard!" "The rainy season is the hardest time in a year, tiring and sickly." "More than 100 days rainy days each year, our girls' nails always broke in a whole rainy summer." "(Dai Language) Anhu is ill!" "Don't enter the room, he is exorcising for the boy, you can't go in." "No!" "It will too late if we still do nothing." "Yibo, give me water!" "Help him up!" "My medicinal knowledge only limited to that simple book I brought, but actually I brought Anhu back to life." "He was poisoned by some mushrooms he ate when pasturing with old dummy." "I really want to buy some candies to him, but..." "at that time, I have no money...even can't buy a stamp." "Hey!" "Let's go." " What books you brought today?" " Some medicinal booklets." " Do you really wanna become a doctor?" " Let me tell you, actually my medical knowledge is not bad." "Even some peoples from other villages were come to ask me." " Really?" " Sure." "I saved a boy's life a few days ago." "Look my books." "How?" "They are too difficult, I can't read." "I have no interest in them." "So what's you interest?" "Colorful clothing?" "floral skirts?" "You mean I'm not beautiful with this floral skirt?" " Do you think a peacock in pride is beautiful?" " Of course." " But when it spread its tail, what's appeared behind it?" " Hahaha...you are too bad!" "..." "The is Luxun's original word, not mine..." "I don't believe!" "..." "It's you said...you said...hehe" "Youths' happiness is the glory of Dai village, every night, all boys and girls gathers under dragon tree, singing Dai songs, looking for his or her dreamlover." "Those boys who can get his girl and those girls who have many wooers, will receive a lot of villagers' praises." "Listen, what are they singing?" "He's singing:" "Sister's hands are so cute, soft and tender like bananas..." "Why they are not shy?" "No need to shy at all, I think this way is good, they just said out what they are thinking," "not like our Han peoples, roundabout and bashful." "Nobody discourage you from saying frankly." "You said easily, you can?" "Sure I can." " Ok, now I ask you, what are you thinking now?" " I..." "I'm thinking the weather is colder, we should go back now." " You...you really thinking that now?" " Yes." "Hum...you are still a han people." "He's the boy approached me closest since I untied my red scarf." "I told him everything, just like to my closest girlfriend." "evey time say goodbye, I always feel melancholy." "I like to sit on the bamboo terrace to read before sunset." "Old dummy Bubi always passes by, driving his cattles." "I'm not fear of him anymore." "He's a kindly man like all Dai villagers." "Wicked children always joke with him, splash him and drive away his cattles," "He not only dosen't angry, but also give them some wild fruits." "He have no home, no families, whether celebrations or convocations, he's always a lonely one." "Dage!" "I like to watch Dage working, he's so talent," "After he back home, he repaired the broken stairs and doors" "I always happy to tidy up fishs he hunted, sometimes hares or mallards." "Dage never go out at the night, he always sit in front of hearth, doing works silently." "Ya!" "Ya!" "Those still and peaceful days we thought are actually only a moment of the whole life," "Ya can't do anything anymore, but still wanna eat rice I filled for her." "At that time, I and the whole families are all suppose we would stay all together forever." "Are you yearning for your home, Jierou?" "My mother was also exiled soon after I came here, I have already no home anymore." "The tedious working repeats year after year, no hope to return city, no hope to return school," "Many things we were wanna forget flowed back in our hearts again." "This temple is so quiet." "We were really silly in the past, we believed so many lies." "I really don't know when our such days would be end." "But I think our lives here are not bad." "Whatever, in here I have a new cognition about life." "So you wanna go on such days forever?" "and you have satisfied with your life?" "You never know, the bloom of Dai girls are only that few years, after they married, soon became aunt, old grandma... then lost their teeth..." "do you really wanna become one of them?" "The paddy became golden, heavy season is the happiest time of Dai peoples." "Jierou, let's go to dance." "Jierou!" "Someone call you." " Who?" " Your brother." " Where?" " Over there." "Wait me a moment." "Renjiang, come on, let's go to dance." "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "I just came to see you." "What happened?" "The oxcart was turned over in a rainy day, it's ok, now I got time to rest." "Have you heard the news of my village?" "Yes." "That girl is the youngest one in our class, nobody know who's that boy, she kept her mouth shut all along." "I think that girl is too silly." "Silly?" "Yes." "She shouldn't hush up that boy at all." "That bastard should have stood out from the begining, if he was a conscientious man, and accompany her to receive punishments." "You said easily, you could do it if you were him?" "It's a pity I still haven't that chance to make a name for myself." "It's late, I have to go." " But your legs..." " It doesn't matter, I can walk." "You sleep in my room tonight, I'll go to Anhu's house." "Jierou!" "Jierou!" " What's the matter?" " Dage is fighting with that oppidan boy!" "Jierou, don't enter, Dage is drunk." "Where's my schoolmate?" "Dage hit him, he didn't fight back, and rushed out." "I thought you left along with him." "You can't enter, he's very angry now." "Jierou, you should knew, Dage likes you, if our Dai people fell in love with someone, he will insist on together with her till the end." " Yibo, you..." " You are not our Dai people either, sooner or later you will leave here." "Jierou, why are you staying here?" "You should go, go now, leave here..." "Homes in everywhere all along, I settled in a montane school." "I try to forget Dai village and all the past, and working hard." "Your letter from beijing." "My mother returned to city!" " Really?" " En." "The college in city will come here to recruit students, are you gonna enter for it?" "No, I won't." "Why?" "Let's go." "Why you don't wanna enter for?" "I...my parentage is not good..." "You are so silly." "Peoples like us, the only way out is enter the college!" "But I..." "We're over 20 now, where's our future?" "We can't stay here till the end of our lives!" "If you wanna enter for college then you go, don't mind my business!" "Dadie!" "Dage really loves you," "It doesn't matter if you don't like, you can say out, but you shouldn't runaway." "We've been looking for you for several years." "The water here is not sweet than our village's, and difficult to chop woods." "Ya...is dying now." "What?" "!" "Ya doesn't understand why you won't marry, and Dage carries water everyday, she treats you as her grandson's wife all through." "Once, ya walked out the yard, went across the bridge alone...afterward, she fell ill..." "Dadie..." "I..." "I'll go to see ya..." "When I came back home, Ya has passed away..." "At her last time, she was still grasping that floral skirt I left... and saying...don't go...don't go..." "Dadie soothes me again and again that Ya is too old, and death is a avoidless thing." "But till now, I still have a guilty conscience to her." "Many years ago, I returned to city finally, and entered the college." "but Renjiang remained there forever..." "Once rainy season, the flood burst, mud-rock flow swallowed the whole village at one night." "Renjiang, Dadie, Dage, Yibo and other Dai villagers were all died..." "In these years, I often dreamt about that place..." "that little pond...banana forest...and those Daqin trees." "Time lapsed away, things changes little by little, but I will believe forever, There are always green grass and clear water there..." "In memory of Zhang Nuanxin (1940-1995)" "THE END Subtitled:" "AUESS = wei wei"