堂堂武安侯竟能入赘杀猪女
“The grand Marquis of Wu'an actually married into a pig butcher's family.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
什么武安侯
“What Marquis of Wu'an?”
堂堂 武安侯竟能入赘杀猪女
“The grand Marquis of Wu'an actually married into a pig butcher's family.”
“Is there anything more absurd than that?”
“How completely absurd and humiliating for an aristocrat to lower himself to the lowest social class.”
In traditional patriarchal China, a man marrying into his wife's household was seen as emasculating and socially degrading, especially for nobility marrying into a trade-class family.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
grand; dignified; respectable
Applied to prominent titles or upright figures, often contrasted with an unfitting behavior to emphasize indignity.
marry into the wife's family (matrilocal marriage)
Used specifically for a man taking up residence with the wife's household, historically associated with loss of status.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That the Marquis of Wu'an and the butcher woman will pay with their lives!”
“to make the Marquis of Wu'an so melancholy—”
“Tell the Marquis of Wu'an to come out and meet his death!”
“How could I let the grand Marquis of Wu'an trouble himself with me?”
“Marquis of Wu'an, your loyalty”
“If you're so tough, go fight the Marquis of Wu'an.”