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)