Zhang Yimou,bom in 1951inXi'an.ShaanXj ProVince,once went to settle down in the countryside,andworked at a state—Owned cotton textllefactory He graduated from the Photography Depanment of the BeijingFilm Academy in 1982.Zhang Yimou,Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang are the representative directors of thefifth generation Of the Chinese cinema,Zhang Yimou was director of phOtography for two films,One and Eight and Yellow Earth,and directed many famous films,such as Red Sorghum,The Story of Qiuju,Ra