always treating as a violation of politeness, an act of defying convention in the traditional Chinese historical memory. But in this film, it is all sing by men. Since 1950s the image of women position keep changing from lack of the actual women image as women itself and act as a passive escapee, like the White Hair Girl, to women can control her fate in a certain limitation by designing where she should go, like Cuiqiao, to a new concept, which twisted and challenging the old convention, the women can be equal to men, or more over in a certain extension, like Jui is almost the control of the motivation of Yu. This trend of womens image changing in position, partly is because of what Chairman Mao Zedong mentioned about the equality of both gender, but mainly is the 5th generation directors in China (e.g. Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou) are grow up and had suffered under the Cultural Revolution and those 5th generation directors had viewed and got contact with the western ideology more then any previous generation directors in the past, and this allowed them to have a more overall view on their own country, China. Therefore, these directors can discover the problems in the previous contemporary Chinese history. The conflict of old convention and the suffered women are only just part of the problems in China. However, from the popularity of The Yellow Earth and The Red Sorghum in China, we can knew that the problems that similar to the films are still existed quite often in the recent China. This suggested that although the position of women image in the recent film had being risen, but still there are many women and social problem remains in China today....
