Zifeng Liu

After the end of the three major campaigns, the situation in China has undergone fundamental changes. Before the Kuomintang forces withdrew from Peiping, they adopted a series of psychological policies for the literary and art circles, hoping that they would also leave Beiping together. The leaders of the Communist Party of China, such as Mao Zedong, who was far away from Xibaipo, also paid great attention to the people of the literary and art circles in Beijing. They sent Tian Han and other comrades to appease and sympathize. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party launched a silent war against the literary and art circles.

Es la evolución de una familia a lo largo de treinta años de historia china. Se inicia el último año de la Revolución Cultural (1976), cuando el pequeño Xiangyang, de nueve años, se reencuentra con un padre al que ya no recuerda y que ha pasado los últimos seis años en un campo de trabajo. Durante ese tiempo, Xiangyang se ha acostumbrado a su independencia, a jugar con los otros niños y a recorrer los callejones de Beijing. Sin embargo, su padre vuelve decidido a recuperar el tiempo perdido, y el despreocupado niño empieza a darse cuenta de que los buenos tiempos están a punto de acabarse.

Aixiu marries a farmer, Aixiang, and gives birth to a son. In a desperate situation, Aixiang "pawns" his wife, Aixiu, to the Li family for three years, whose wife is unable to have children, and Aixiu's task is to carry on the family's legacy for her. In the midst of humiliation and pain, Aixiu becomes pregnant with the offspring of the Li family, but after she gives birth to the child, her situation in the Li family is in a state of decline, not only is she treated with disdain day in and day out, but she is also asked to do all kinds of menial and heavy work.

A middle-aged couple's comfortable life changes forever when the wife, driving home alone in the rain while slightly intoxicated, runs down a pedestrian and flees in panic. Her guilt over the hit-and-run, compounded by her husband's suspicions of what happened, begins to affect their once loving and happy relationship.

En un taller de la Italia del siglo XVII, un maestro artesanal crea su obra definitiva, un violín perfecto y barnizado en rojo, para su hijo a punto de nacer. A partir de ese momento, el instrumento viaja de mano en mano desde Europa a Canadá, pasando por China, hasta la época actual.

Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.

A bumbling factory translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.