The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire (金瓶風月)

""The Golden Lotus"" is a famous historical book,

""the first book of Wonder in the World"",

written by one of the six top...

Chinese scholars, translated into

Many languages and over 600 textbooks

on its subject

Known as the ""Golden"" studies

as the ""Red"" about

""The Dreams of the Red Chambers"".

In the book are

Pan ""Jing"" Lien, Lee ""Ping"" Er and Chuan ""Mae"", literally

gold, bottle and berry;

thus ""Jing Ping Mae"".

Xi Men Qing is an illiterate but wealthy Men,

well trained in martial arts,

brilliant in business

friendly with corrupted lords. Assistant ""mayor""

to the county of ""Clear River"" (equivalent to a

present assistant police chief) with local gangsters

for friends, a playboy, the "Godfather" of Shan Dung

Equivalent to present day Mafia boss.

Camera zooms in here... lower.

Remember your own positions.

You come here. -Okay.

You will start right here later.

They will come along the camera track.

What about us? -Just follow him.?

They come that way and I go this way, right?

Ready? Camera! Action!

Mr. Chou!

Do you know her?

Don"t even think about her.

Why not?

""Do not covet your neighbour"s wife""

Whose wife is she?

Our "goodbrother" Hwa Ze Xu"s wife

What a beautiful wife he has

Didn"t you mention that Hwa is often impotent?

His uncle married her in his name,

meaning...

Lee Ping Er was born in 15th of the first month in lunar calendar.

She was gixen a pair of fish-bowis

thus Ping Er.

Originally Lord Tsai"s son-in-law

Scholar Liang"s

concubine. Born beautiful,

great in bed and with 2 golden lotuses (feet)

She has another nickname : "" Big Beard""

The blackest pubic hair, thicker than anyone"s beard

Scholar Liang ran away when their home was burnt by

Lu Ju Yee. Lee Ping Er married old Eunuch Hwa"s

nephew, Hwa Ze Xu took 18 huge pearls as her dowry

Hwa Ze Xu looks very masculine,

but really impotent

therefore his name means"

to be without an heir""

Eunuch Hwa chose her for his nephew"s wife

but she was really his concubine.

An eunuch taking a wife,

no good hurrying:

pinching, biting, bounding,

burning, hanging

and exen burning pubic hair. Everything was tried, even the weirdest.

When Eunuch Hwa was died...

Lee was left everything,

including 8 treasure chests

There were 4 cousins,

oil, tight, pretentiousness, riches:

Hwa Ze Yiu, Hwa Ze Gwang, Hwa Ze Xu, Hwa Ze Hwa

They should have inherited equally

but Lee held the books,

so nothing could be done

Hwa Ze Xu did not haxe a proper job, just eating,

drinking, gambling and whoring all day long

Ieaving the beautiful Lee

alone and lonely.

Leaving her burning with lust,

reading Eunuch Hwa"s lusty books.

No one played Mah-Jong than

But "fooling around" was always to be...

Lady, l"m scared...

Silly child,

the lord hasn"t returned for three days

No, if the lord knew...

Hurry up!

The lord would beat me to death if he found out

If I can ask you to come, there"s nothing to be scared of

No, I can"t...

Hurry up!

I"m scared someone will see.

Come on, don"t be so frightened.

No, no...

Chuen Mae and Qiu Ju are both asleep

I can"t!

Over here!

I"d better get back to sleep in my own room

Hurry up and come over!

Lord Hwa is drunk, be careful!

Yes!

Mama Fung, hurry and prepare hot water

Yes!

Get away, l"m not drunk

I"ll support him

Be careful!

Why did you drink so much?

I don"t need to be supported

Alright!

I"m not drunk, get away from me!

It"s late, stop it.

I haven"t had enough to drink, more wine!

You must be elder brother"s wife?

How courteous, and you are?

I"m Xi Men Qing.

Lord Xi Men!

I could drink for 6 more days and still be sober

Just look at you, so drunk and thinking you"re sober

Go!

Be careful!

I"m not drunk!

See if you can walk proparly

I want more wine...

Drink, drink!

I want more to drink

OK, OK, we"ll have more to drink!

Mama Fung, hurry!

Coming, coming!

Let"s drink!

I bow to thank your Lord Xi Men

This courtiousness is unnecessary, please rise

Drink with me!

Lord, you"re so big!

Who?

Mama Fung"s my nursemaid,

Xiao Chuen and Ying Chuen are my maids.

All our own people.

Does the Lord live next door?

Yes

my fourth concubine lives next to your garden

Must be Madame Pan.

Yes, her name is Jing Lian. We"re newly wed

The 5th lady is very lucky to be married to you

I think my seventh younger brother is luckier

to be wed to one as beautiful as you

Your lordship!

Get out, get out!

Elder brother, you want to fool with my wife

Don"t, please!

Your lordship, don"t!

Hurry up and hide

Under the bed.

You, you wicked person

You cheap whore, whoring when l"m not at home?

Yes, l"m cheap, but you"re no better

Aren"t you the same, in a brothel all the time

You just go and die out there

Horrible, worrying me by not coming home for days

This wine has been treasured for years.

Enjoy yourselxes.

How old Mama Fung?

Fifteen-two

About you?

I was born in the year of the ram.

You"re twenty-three this year?

Right!

I"m 26, born in this year of the tiger

Hold on. The Buddhism protect me.

What"s wrong?

You guess. Haven"t I putting the ram in the tiger"s mouth?

No, the tiger"s being fooled be a doogie.

Come. Let"s drink!

Wait!

You feed me!

My grandfather took this from the palace:

24 way of marking lover.

Come, let"s look together.

Let"s learn from the drawings.

Alright!

What are you looking at?

I"ve got to go over.

Be careful!

What are you doing this early in the morning?

Yes, what are you doing on a ladder this early?

I"m a Men. Men have their business.

What good business would you be up to?

What good or bad business?

It"s none of your business

What? What are you doing with my things?

Gixe it back to me!

Don"t go away!

Did she give this to you?

Which she are you talk about?

Are you learning to do this from her?

No, of course not. Don"t talk rubbish,

Your lordship, you"re back.

Why are you leaving as soon as you"re returned?

Not only was Xi Men Qing lustful for women, he was also greedy for money.

He lied and cajoled to women to obtain sex.

Increased his wealth by any possible means.

He encouraged the three Hwa brothers to sue

their other brother, Ze Xu and his wife Lee Ping Er.