''Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker'' () is a 1994 film directed by He Ping and starring

Ning Jing Ning Jing (; born April 27, 1972) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is best known for playing Mi Lan in ''In the Heat of the Sun'' (1994), Danzhu in ''Red River Valley (1997 film), Red River Valley'' (1997), Angel in ''Lover's Grief over the ...

, Wu Gang, Zhao Xiaorui, Gao Yang, Xu Zhengyun and Zhao Liang.

Plot

A young woman inherits her father's

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, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day an itinerant

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

is hired to decorate the doors and vases at the factory for

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. The woman, forbidden to marry as it would involve outsiders in the factory ownership, is drawn to the headstrong painter. When they fall in love, the situation throws her entire life into disarray.

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* * 1994 films Chinese romantic drama films 1990s Mandarin-language films Films based on Chinese novels Films set in the 1910s Films directed by He Ping 1994 drama films {{1990s-China-film-stub