What is Memoirs of Art and Technology about?

Like his mother, Chiyoko (Zhang Ziyi), an apprentice geisha, has a pair of unique eyes that can never be seen in Japan. They are translucent gray. When she was a child, she thought someone had dug a hole in her eye and sucked up all the ink in it. The fortune teller said that her eyes were so pale because she drank too much water, which led to the lack of the other four elements (Jin Mu Hotu). Because of this, the five senses look very uncoordinated. At the age of nine, Chiyoko and her sister Zuo Jin were taken away from the small fishing village where they were born and raised by a businessman named Tanaka. In the town, she was deeply impressed by the sight of "women pouring wine, men telling stories, and people singing, and almost everyone got drunk at last". Soon, the two sisters were resold to the garden where the weathering industry was concentrated. The first time I saw Miss Chu Tao (Gong Li), a pillar of a house in Xintian, Chiyoko stood in a narrow passage. At the entrance of the passage stood a very beautiful woman, wearing the most beautiful kimono that Chiyoko had ever seen. She is wearing a pair of painted slippers. The most surprising thing is not the gorgeous clothes, but that her face is painted with a layer of white ash, as if it were a wall composed of white clouds, penetrated by the strong light of the sun. Her hair is as black as paint, dotted with amber ornaments, with a bun in the back and thin silver thread at the end. When she moves, it glows. She is a petite woman. Chiyoko gaped at the beautiful woman. She smiled at her and said to others, "Would you please take these rubbish away later?" She is in the way of others. "Then, Miss Hatsumomo came out with small steps, and it looked as if she had slipped out along the kimono hem. She said "garbage" is Chiyoko. Chiyoko was allowed to stay in the house where the geisha lived and had a good chance to become a geisha apprentice, but her poor sister was not so lucky. There is no place to enter the house in Chiyoko. At first, I did some cleaning work, and at the same time, I was going to learn various skills to become a geisha. Hatsumomo expressed great disgust at her, always saying "the girl in the fishing village stinks" and making excuses to slap the poor girl severely. In a month, it's time to enter geisha school. Chiyoko put on a blue and white unlined cotton student uniform, learned to sing and watched Hatsumomo make up. When Hatsumomo took off her makeup, she looked at Chiyoko through the mirror and said, "I know what you are thinking. You're thinking that you'll never be as beautiful as me. Yes, that's absolutely right. "Buying a house is supported by Hatsumomo alone. When buying a house, everyone does his job. Hatsumomo is the economic pillar, Mommy is in charge of daily affairs, and Grandma is the most powerful person. She chooses the right geisha apprentice and is in charge of the financial power of buying a house, so she is the head of the family. Hatsumomo has a boyfriend who is a chef. They meet once a week. Geisha is very troublesome to associate with men with low status. First of all, geisha can't get income from it, but they may have to pay back the money. Second, guests who are either rich or expensive may feel belittled and empathize. One night, Hatsumomo unexpectedly brought her chef boyfriend home and a kimono. That gorgeous kimono belongs to Shi Sui (Yang Ziqiong), a geisha. In the geisha world, Hatsumomo and Shiksui are a pair of top experts who are evenly matched. Chu Tao called Shi Sui "Miss Perfect", but in fact she hated this versatile opponent very much. Chu Tao packed the ink and inkstone, stuffed the brush full of ink into Chiyoko's hand, held her hand and moved to the beautiful kimono in Sushui, saying, "Daizi, Hanazono Sakura, practice your calligraphy! "Kimono was destroyed, and Hatsumomo forced Chiyoko to return it. Chiyoko first met Chu Tao's adversary, her later benefactor and "sister"-Shi Sui. She has a perfect oval face, just like a doll, smooth and delicate even without makeup, just like a piece of China porcelain. The next day, under Suksui's visit and Hatsumomo's provocation, Chiyoko was served by rattan and almost lost his qualification as a geisha apprentice. At this moment, Hatsumomo came and leaned over Chiyoko's ear and told her sister's whereabouts. Finally, on a thunderstorm night, Chiyoko found her sister in the teahouse where she became a prostitute, and they agreed to run away together. When I came back to buy a house, I happened to meet Chu Tao and her boyfriend. Hatsumomo put a handful of paper money into Chiyoko's belt and let her run away with her sister. Chiyoko's indifference forced Hatsumomo to do something malicious: falsely accuse Chiyoko of stealing jewelry for sale, and her mother knew Hatsumomo's trick and slapped her in the face. Chiyoko felt that she had no place to stay in the house. After the attempted escape, Chiyoko changed from a geisha apprentice to a servant, and Hatsumomo also lost her boyfriend. On a romantic encounter, 12-year-old Chiyoko sent Chu Tao something to a geisha school and was ridiculed by geisha. While crying on the roadside, she met the most important person in her life, a man (Ken Watanabe) with a Buddha-like face. The man called President looked at Chiyoko calmly, made her stand up after falling, took out a handkerchief from her pocket, wiped the sand and tears from her face, and spoke kindly. Look at her the way a musician looks at his instrument. She felt as if she had been seen through and became a part of him. She was deeply moved by this noble man. In this brief moment of meeting, Chiyoko has changed from a lost girl facing the emptiness of life to a person full of life goals-she is determined to become a geisha, just to attract the attention of a man like the president again. At grandma's funeral, Chiyoko saw Shi Sui again. Shi Sui recognized Chiyoko and showed great interest in her. She also looked for opportunities for Chiyoko to buy her own house. There, Shi Sui told Chiyoko some old things about Chu Tao and pointed out that her personality is like water. " Water is constantly flowing and will change shape with the passing objects, which is undoubtedly the most elastic element. "When a girl is waiting for the opportunity to go on stage as a trainee, she needs to establish a relationship with a geisha. Any more experienced geisha can be the "sister" of a younger girl. When two women become sisters through a ceremony similar to a wedding, they will regard each other as a member of the family. The "elder sister" will teach young girls to treat others and sell them to good guests. Similarly, all the expenses of young girls will be provided by "big sister" After the secret meeting, Shi Sui and her mother, who bought a house in Xintian, successfully became Chiyoko's sister, and Chu Tao also accepted another less qualified geisha apprentice, Pumpkin, as her sister. Chiyo then had the opportunity to re-enter the geisha school and learn singing, various musical instruments, dance, tea ceremony, flower arrangement and other skills. She also learned from Suksui how to become a freelance geisha, that is, to own her own Dana (provider) and provide all the expenses of performance and life, including giving kimono or jewelry. Time flies when the most popular geisha is studying. Chiyo became Shisui's sister and changed her name to Memoirs of a Geisha. Hatsumomo began to show her terrible jealousy. Whenever there is a tea party with memoirs of Suksui and a geisha, she will appear with pumpkins, which makes everyone embarrassed. However, Shi Sui, a clever chess player, successfully arranged two major events for the memoirs of a geisha: First, he sold the first night of the memoirs of a geisha at an unprecedented high price-this was a terrible experience, 15 years old memoirs of a geisha. The first man turned out to be a perverted doctor who loved virgins; The other is Dana who asked a general (Ceng Jiang) to write memoirs of a geisha. This far-sighted decision made the memoirs of geisha and their house in Gion safe and sound when World War II broke out. At the age of eighteen, the memoirs of a geisha finally succeeded in completely defeating Hatsumomo and became the heir of the geisha hall, although she also paid a heavy price for it. A war destroyed the prosperity of Gion Kyoto. After the war, the general could not continue to support the memoirs of a geisha, but she was still the most popular geisha and sought after by men. However, she met her girlhood idol, a good man like Buddha-now we know that he is the chairman of a big company called Iwamarujian. However, he hesitated because of the existence of a good friend, a capable partner in his career and Wu Ye (played by K?ji Yakusho), the most ardent admirer of the memoirs of a geisha. Finally, the memoir of a geisha got her wish and became Iwamaru's mistress. However, in order to avoid causing family disputes in Iwamaru, she chose to live far away in the United States and live in a luxurious Japanese-style room on the 32nd floor of Waldorf Astoria in new york in her later years. Japanese literary and art circles, business dignitaries and even cabinet ministers or gangsters come and go here. The change of the world will not last longer than the waves on the sea. No matter how hard it is to win, everything will soon become a faint watercolor painting, just like the light ink on paper, and the colorful life of geisha is just that.