The literal translation of the title of this movie is Contemporary Husband and wife.
This movie is a pre-revolutionary era cultural introspection work that was way too ahead of its time, and consequently, performed poorly in the box office. The movie challenged the tow thousand years long traditional rigid Confucian teachings about husbands and wives by introducing the idea of gender equality in a very subtle way, but perhaps too subtle to be picked up by the audience, but then again, if the idea was presented to blunt, such radical new thinking would probably not be accepted by audience either.