What does Zhuangzi mean by trying his wife?

Zhuangzi's Trying His Wife is a feature film directed by Beihai Li and starring Beihai Li and Li Minwei. Released in 1913.

The film tells the story of how Zhuang Zhou, a handsome young scholar, experienced a life of debauchery and wealth through an affair with four fairies under the inspiration of Taibai Venus, and finally got rid of worldly customs and rejoined the fairy class. Extended information

In p>1913, almost at the same time as the filming of A Hard Wife, Blaskey and his brother Wan Wei Sha, who sold "Asia", set up a gorgeous film company in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and cooperated with Li Minwei's "Man and Me Mirror Drama Club" to shoot Zhuangzi Trying His Wife, which was also the first short story film produced by Hong Kong in film history.

Over the past century, Hong Kong has always been an important place for Chinese films in all stages of interaction with mainland and Taiwan Province films, no matter whether the two peaks stand side by side, stand out, or stand alone. Although the plot of Zhuang Zi's Trying His Wife is simple, it is the origin of Hong Kong movies, and its producer Li Minwei is a man of the times.

On the main entrance of Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum in Nanjing, four characters are engraved: "The world is for the public". Few people know that Sun Yat-sen wrote these four words in person just to praise a person. At that time, the Northern Expedition had just begun. He was carrying a heavy camera and, regardless of his life's danger, took a shot of attacking Huizhou City in the flames of war, and even took a panoramic view of the battlefield from the plane. These battlefield video shots constitute a large-scale news documentary "The War of the National Revolutionary Army by Sea, Land and Air", which has become a powerful weapon to revitalize the nation. This man is Li Minwei, the father of Hong Kong movies.

For a long time, in the history of old movies, he was only associated with Zhuangzi's Tried Wife. As a result, Rocca, a senior film worker and film critic in Hong Kong, said: "If China was a China who was prosperous and peaceful at that time, and Hong Kong was a Hong Kong that paid attention to history and culture, the Li Minwei brothers might be enshrined in the hall of China movies to enjoy all the honor and celebrate great events, just like the Lumiere brothers are to the French."

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhuangzi tries his wife.