要么就成家生娃去了
“Or they get married and have kids.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这女的现在也不唱戏了 唱流行歌曲
“The young ladies don't sing opera anymore. They sing pop songs.”
要么 就 成家生娃 去了
“Or they get married and have kids.”
男的回农村
“Men go back to the countryside.”
“They had no choice but to give up their artistic dreams just to survive as ordinary housewives.”
When traditional arts collapse economically, performers—especially women—are pressured by societal norms to retreat into traditional domestic roles like marriage and motherhood.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to settle down and have children
A highly colloquial northern phrase summarizing marriage and childbearing, often contrasted with pursuing career ambitions.
Indicates a completed change of state or departure from the troupe to domestic life.