The Battle of Mount Dingjun (1905)《定军山》(1905)The film came from one of four Chinese classical masterpieces, The Three Kingdoms (San Guo Yan Yi), taking place during the Three Kingdoms period of China. The battle was fought between the kingdoms of Wei and Shu. In 215, Cao Cao took Hanzhong and appointed his senior generals Xia Houyuan and Zhang He, etc. Lived and stayed in Mount Dingjun and Mount Tian-dang as well as their mountain passes. Liu Bei, leading his generals and soldiers marched towards Hanzhong in the same year while Cao Cao did not gain a firm foothold there. The old senior general Huang Zhong defeated Zhang He at Mount Tiandang and finally seized Mount Dingjun.《定军山》取材于中国古典四大名著之一的《三国演义》,讲的是三国时 期蜀魏用兵的故事。公元215年,曹操夺取汉中,并派大将夏侯渊、 张郃等留守驻兵定军山和天荡山各隘口。刘备趁曹操立足未稳,同年率将兵进军汉中,老将黄忠打败了驻守天荡山的张郃而夺得定军山。During the early stage of the 20th century occidental film theaters owned by foreigners attracts numerous people while the occidental film theaters owned by Chinese Ren Qingtai on the same street attracted very few. The only reason was that foreigners did not sell new films to Chinese, and what Chinese theaters could merely do was to show those old films.
20世纪初的北京天桥,外国人开设的西洋影戏院门庭若市。同样一条街,中 国人任庆泰开设的西洋影戏院却门可罗雀。原因只有一个,外国人不卖你新片,任你几部老片循环放映。