On the evening of September 29, 1913, the Shanghai Xinxin Dance Hall Theater released "Difficult Husbands and Difficult Wives" (also known as "Cave House Flower Candle"), directed by Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu, and starring Ding Chuhe and others. "Difficult Husbands and Wives" is the first feature film in China. "Difficult Husbands and Wives" was screened for 60 consecutive days, and it became a hot topic on the streets of Shanghai for a while.
"Difficult Husbands and Wives" has a complete storyline, and the whole movie tells a flesh-and-blood, end-to-end story, so it is called a feature film. The plot of the film is simple, the length is very short, only 4 films were filmed in total, and more than 40 minutes were screened. The main plot of the story is illustrated by subtitles.
The famous film and dramatist Ke Ling once gave "Difficult Husbands and Difficult Wives" a high evaluation: "This film points the criticism to the unreasonable feudal marriage system, six years before Hu Shi published the famous one-act play "Lifelong Events" in "New Youth" in 1919, and the content is also deeper than the latter."
Its great achievements have also made Zheng Zhengqiu a pioneer of Chinese films, laid the first solid foundation for Chinese national films, and opened the precedent of feature film shooting, which is of landmark significance. Previously, Chinese films have a history of more than 10 years, but only no plot of action and opera fragments.
From the founding period of Chinese films from 1905 to 1913, there were no actresses for 8 years, and all female protagonists were played by male actors. This is true even in films such as "Difficult Husbands and Wives", which thoroughly depicts the marital relationship between men and women.
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