Shanghai Triad: Fragrant Blooms, Full Moon: Zhou Xuan from 1940 film Xixiangji

The "middle-brow" Huangmei aria style is adapted and condensed by Fan Yanqiao for a scenery-loving escapist Shanghai audience, yielding a "golden-oldier" nostalgic diction: the audience had however to be literate enough to read the titles as well as the ads.