I used to be very fond of Ye Qingcheng’s compliments about cheongsam: “Shortly after the city lights were on, a beam of cheongsam came with faint fragrance into this world of mortals, no exaggerated materials, but only the colors and structure of butterflies, graceful and restrained to the max, while boldly showing off sexual attractions. Quiet, yet alluring, classic and sexy, the ones in cheongsam is like a peom in-between the blossoms.”

1. Shanghai Cheongsam Amorousness in Films and Novels
Author: the elegant story
I used to be very fond of Ye Qingcheng’s compliments about cheongsam: “Shortly after the city lights
were on, a beam of cheongsam came with faint fragrance into this world of mortals, no exaggerated
materials, but only the colors and structure of butterflies, graceful and restrained to the max, while boldly
showing off sexual attractions. Quiet, yet alluring, classic and sexy, the ones in cheongsam is like a peom
in-between the blossoms.”
Everything amorous and charm about cheongsam has been incisively depicted by her pen of magic.

2. The description about cheongsam by Zhang Ailing was even more imaginative, relating to the character
and personality of the heroines, leading one lost in wild and fanciful thoughts. In “Ban Sheng Yuan” a light
pink cheongsam wore by the heroine Man Zhen, “a thin, narrow plait lace in black and white attached to
the edge of the cuffs”. The first time Man Lu shown up, she was in an apple green soft satin long
cheongsam, when she met Shi Jun, she wore a black long cheongsam, the splits of the cheongsam were
decorated with a row diamonds. Two sisters, differed in both appearance and personality. In “Feng Suo”,
Wu Cuiyuan wears a white silk cheongsam, with a narrow blue edge, just like her character, pure like
water. While the moon white chiffon cheongsam taken off by Bai Liusu in “Qing Cheng Zhi Lian”, perhaps
it was soaked in moon light. The moon, the teardrops, leaving memories, sadness and pity behind.

3. The shame is that in my trifling life memories, I can hardly find the existence of cheongsam. The only
impression was the waitresses who work in the luxury hotel wearing red cheongsam, regardless of their
appearance, they all traveling through the night lights and crowds, with a dull professional smile on their
faces.
When did the breath-taking beauty of cheongsam gone out of our lives?
Maybe only in the dreams of films, through distant ages, by the jade body of a flower like lady, at a mild
scented dusk, the ancient soul hiding in the cheongsam would blossom with slices of litheness and
fragrance.
Perhaps only the stunning beauty in the films could recur the addictive sensation that lasted for
thousands of years.

4. Take Maggie Cheung for instance, If you had ever seen “In Mood For Love”, you would never forget the
dazzling cheongsams she wore in the film.
In the dim aisle filled with gloominess, blossoms of brilliant purples and reds shown up in a sudden, it’s
hard to tell whether it is youth, love or passion, so intense, beautiful yet muddled. Under the dim light, her
charming visage was like a rose in full blossom, yet it feels like it’s going to withered in the next second.
However, Maggie was even more spectacular in another film “Ruan Lingyu”: slightly curved hair, a
confused expression in her eyes, a vague smile hiding a slice of sadness, surpassing beautiful
cheongsam embellishes her short yet glamorous life. Such a lady with extraordinary beauty is to be
yearned by any man.

5. And there is Anita Mui in “Rouge”. The lady ghost with a unreasoning passion for love in a floral
cheongsam, walking quietly in the boundless dark cold night, cold yet charming, desolated with a slice of
bitterness, sad and mild.
In the novel of Li Bihua, she described the appearance of Ru Hua when she was about to kill herself: “she
was in her finest dress, a loose light pink cheongsam, with chick wing sleeves, the collar and the cuffs
was edged with purple and peach red lace. She looks like a five-petal peach blossom” although gorgeous
and lovely, it’s not suitable for Anita, I personally preferred the ghost like coquettish in the film.
Source: http://www.elegantstory.com/shanghai-cheongsam-film-movie.html