What does "Rolling in the Red Dust" mean?

"The rolling world of mortals" refers to the hustle and bustle of secular life in this world.

The word "Red Dust" mostly refers to this bustling secular world. "Gungun" is a verb, and "Red Dust" means the secular world. This word is full of fireworks, but also has a sense of rushing and noisy.

It comes from a Chinese script written by the modern Chinese writer San Mao in 1990. It is also San Mao's posthumous work "The Rolling Red Dust", which was first published in December 1990. The work tells the story of the love entanglement between Shen Shaohua, a female writer during the Anti-Japanese War, and Zhang Nengcai, who worked for the Japanese. The script takes the form of a play within a play. In 1990, the work was adapted into a movie of the same name.

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The creative background of "Rolling in the Red Dust": In April 1990, Sanmao returned to travel to mainland China. But all good things are hard to come by. Before leaving, directors Yan Hao, Brigitte Lin, and Qin Han came forward to invite San Mao to write a movie script. That night, Sanmao was in a good mood, but he didn't want to drink so much that he gradually became drunk. When I went home and went upstairs, I accidentally fell down hard. Broken ribs and injured.

As a result, the travel plan was postponed for a period of time. It was also in the hospital bed that Sanmao wrote and completed the movie script of "Red Dust". "Red Dust" is based on the story of Zhang Ailing. Sanmao moved his spiritual values ??of love to the war-torn 1930s and 1940s.

On November 23, 1990, director Yan Hao adapted the movie "Red Dust" of the same name based on the novel, with San Mao as the screenwriter. The film won eight awards at the 1990 "Golden Horse Awards" including Best Director, Plot, Actress, Supporting Actress, Photography, Music, Art Design and Style Design.