Wheat Enters the City Episodes

The play focuses on the "Phoenix Girl" in the 1970s. It uses funny expression techniques to tell the story of the "Phoenix Girl" marrying the "Peacock Man", going through all kinds of ups and downs, bitterness, discrimination and challenges, and working hard. Tell the inspirational story of your own world.

After a long decade of turmoil, the suffering Chinese people finally ushered in the breath of spring. An entire generation of young people has wasted their prime youth in sports and re-education in the mountains and countryside, and missed the opportunity to study and learn culture in the classroom. Fortunately, the good news of the resumption of the college entrance examination has given hope to aspiring young people. Among this army of college entrance examinations, Lin Mu (played by Luo Gang), an educated youth who came to the remote Xiaoxi Village from Beijing, is one of them.

Previously, he had been with local girl Wang Xiaomai (played by Wang Qianhua) and they had a daughter. After studying hard, he was finally admitted to a university in Beijing, but troubles followed. Lin Mu's mother Yang Wencai (played by Wang Liyun) comes to Xiaoxi Village. She is arrogant and arrogant and firmly refuses to recognize this rural wife. In order to break up the couple, Yang stopped Xiaomai from going to Beijing and forged divorce documents, doing everything possible.

Rural woman Xiaomai "escorted" her husband Lin Mu, an educated youth who returned to the city to attend university, to Beijing, completely breaking the peaceful life of Lin Mu and his family. The old days have become noisy, and Xiaomai's new life is full of ups and downs, bitterness, discrimination and challenges; her mother-in-law Yang Wencai does not recognize this rural daughter-in-law at all, and makes every possible effort to make things difficult and picky, even driving a wedge between her son and daughter-in-law.

Lin Mu, her husband who is in college, has repeatedly "spiritually cheated" emotionally, and has a cowardly personality, obeying her mother's words; Xiaomai has to compete with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law for living space; more importantly, she has to live in a big city like Beijing. Working hard to create a living space for himself and his daughter Yaya in the city. The play shows the struggle history of a rural woman for nearly thirty years. In the end, Mai lived a happy life through honest labor.

Evaluation of the series

The success of "Wheat Enters the City" lies in the fact that it starts from the perspective of closely following the aesthetic taste and psychological needs of the public, and uses simple daily experience and a natural philosophy of life to express The changes in the human spirit behind the secular life and the changes in the times deeply moved the audience with its sense of weight and vicissitudes full of the changes of the times.

"Wheat Enters the City" devotes its attention and thinking to the living conditions of the people at the bottom, especially how urban people should interact with immigrants, especially in today's context of an ever-increasing immigration wave. It is a harmonious place for rural people. How can immigrants make a solid living in modern cities where the cost of survival is much higher than that in rural areas? How can immigrants find their due while adhering to the bottom line of spirituality and dignity? Issues such as happiness are explored.