行风月之事
“behind my back.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“had an affair in the back offices”
行风月之事
“behind my back.”
“They committed scandalous acts right inside the official administrative quarters.”
Classical Chinese culture uses 'wind and moon' (fengyue) as poetic metaphors to discuss romance, passion, or sexual escapades discreetly without vulgarity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to engage in romantic or sexual affairs
A classical, literary idiom/euphemism frequently found in historical dramas to refer delicately to romantic or sexual intimacy.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“all come from pleasure houses.”
“I enjoy all romantic tales.”
“Those are merely courtesies of such places.”
“Rumors claimed our benefactor”
“as a top courtesan in the world of pleasure for many years,”
“frequented pleasure quarters and the Music Office,”