Farewell My Concubine mainly tells the story of the joys and sorrows of two Beijing opera actors for half a century, and shows the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, human living conditions and human nature.

Plot introduction: Duan Xiaolou (ZhangFeng yi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) are a pair of other disciples who grew up together when they were young. They are an actor and an actress. They have always cooperated seamlessly, especially Farewell My Concubine, which is famous all over Beijing. Therefore, they agreed to co-star Farewell My Concubine for life.

However, their understanding of the relationship between drama and life is essentially different. Duan Xiaolou knows that drama is not life, while Cheng Dieyi does not distinguish between people and drama. Duan Xiaolou married Juxian (Gong Li), a famous prostitute, when he thought it was time to get married, which led Cheng Dieyi to think Juxian was a shameful third party and made Duan Xiaolou a traitor. Since then, the love-hate war between the three people around Farewell My Concubine has been escalating with the changes of the times, which eventually led to tragedy.

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Introduction to the role of Farewell My Concubine;

1, Cheng Dieyi

A famous actor in Beijing opera, he is very obsessed with Beijing opera. Since childhood, she was sold by her mother to a Peking Opera class to learn to sing Tsing Yi, and later became a famous actor with her brother Duan Xiaolou for co-acting Farewell My Concubine. When Cheng Dieyi played Yu Ji, he reached the level of selflessness of "no madness, no survival". Coupled with the strange experience of Cheng Dieyi's hours, Cheng Dieyi really sank into his "dream of playing".

2, Juxian

Duan Xiaolou, a famous actress in Kyoto, liked the prostitute who was full of flowers. Later, she fell in love with Duan Xiaolou for a long time, and they finally got together and got married.

3, Duan Xiaolou

As obsessed with Peking Opera as Cheng Dieyi, Cheng Dieyi was a partner in singing Peking Opera. He looks strong on the surface, but he is very weak inside. He talked about patriotism and not singing for the Japanese, but after he was arrested, his younger brother Cheng Dieyi sacrificed himself to save him.

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