Zhang Yimou's new film brings 50,000 tourists to Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou(1/5)

Tourists visit the Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province during the Spring Festival holiday. (Photo provided to China News Service)

About 50,000 tourists came to the Yue Fei Temple as Zhang Yimou's new film Man Jiang Hong, or Full River Red, stood out among all leading Chinese New Year movies, reaching the highest number in the past three years.

The movie tells a revenge story which is set during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), between the patriot national hero Yue Fei and Qin Hui, a treacherous official who murdered Yue.

Tourists visit the Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province during the Spring Festival holiday. (Photo provided to China News Service)

Tourists visit a stone tablet which reads the famous prose Man Jiang Hong at the Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, during the Spring Festival holiday. (Photo provided to China News Service)

Tourists visit statues of Qin Hui at Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. (Photo provided to China News Service)

Tourists visit the Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province during the Spring Festival holiday. (Photo provided to China News Service)