Farewell My Concubine is a pinnacle of Chinese cinema, the only Chinese-language film to win the Palme d'Or, the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The movie has strong feelings, twists and turns, and is full of dramatic conflicts between life and death. The movie invites several big stars to star in it, and has sufficient commercial elements, but at the same time, it also contains profound cultural connotations, and is regarded as a "colorful commonplace, high and many people".

"Farewell My Concubine" uses the art of Peking Opera, which is the deepest cultural deposit in China, and the lives of its artists to reflect on human nature and the state of human existence, and also reflects the philosophical thinking of traditional Chinese culture through the current affairs of the past few decades.

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"Farewell My Concubine" Characters:

1. Cheng Dieyi

A famous Peking Opera performer who is obsessed with Peking Opera. She was sold to a Peking opera troupe by her mother when she was a child to learn to sing in a green dress, and later became famous for co-starring in "Farewell My Concubine" with her brother Duan Xiaolou. When Cheng Dieyi played Yu Ji, she reached the level of forgetfulness that "no one can live without going crazy". Coupled with Cheng Dieyi's peculiar experience in her childhood, Cheng Dieyi really sank into her own "dream of the opera". During the Cultural Revolution, Cheng Dieyi felt lost in her lifelong pursuit of art, and cut her own throat on stage during a rehearsal with Duan Xiaolou.

2. Juxian

Flower House, the top prostitute, for the Kyoto actor Duan Xiaolou favorite, and Duan Xiaolou fell in love with each other over time, and the two eventually came together and married. When the Cultural Revolution broke out after the founding of New China, Duan Xiaolou said against his will that he didn't like Juxian in order to protect himself, which made Juxian see Duan Xiaolou's face clearly. After saying goodbye to Cheng Dieyi, she hangs herself from a beam in the house.

Farewell My Concubine

The plot of Farewell My Concubine: Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) are a pair of brothers who grew up together as children. The two men, one acting as a student and the other as a dancer, have always been seamlessly coordinated, especially in the play Farewell My Concubine, which has been widely acclaimed in the capital city, and for this reason the two men have agreed to co-star in the play Farewell My Concubine for the rest of their lives. However, their understanding of the relationship between theater and life is fundamentally different. Duan Xiaolou knows that theater is not life, while Cheng Dieyi is not separate from theater.

Duan Xiaolou married the famous prostitute Juxian (Gong Li) when he thought it was time to start a family, causing Cheng Dieyi to decide that Juxian was a shameful third party, which made Duan Xiaolou a traitor, and the love-hate relationship between the three of them around the Farewell My Concubine began to escalate along with the changing times and clouds, and eventually turned into a tragedy.