Shǔjià wǒmen qù Fúróngzhèn kàn le pùbù, hái chī le mǐdòufu.
In the summer holidays we went to Furong Town to see the waterfall, and had rice tofu too.
Tips
history
古华's novel, which won the first Mao Dun Literature Prize, follows 胡玉音, who sells rice tofu in a small Hunan town and is persecuted from the early 1960s through the Cultural Revolution. 谢晋 filmed it in 1986.
culture
The film was shot in 王村, an old town built beside a waterfall in Yongshun County, western Hunan. It took the name 芙蓉镇 in 2007 and now trades on the film, above all with 米豆腐, the rice tofu the heroine sells.
