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"Osmanthus Alley", originally written by Xiao Lihong, directed by Chen Kunhou, and scored by Chen Yang. It is about a woman's struggle with her fate in a kind-hearted and conservative ancient society. In fact, it is the struggle between man and nature - the pursuit of dignity of existence in a difficult environment. This story almost completely presents the cultural landscape of Taiwan in the past century, and it is an authentic Taiwanese flavor. Movie Plot

Ti Hong’s fate seems to be destined at birth, just like the lines on her broken palms. Both his parents died when he was twelve years old, and his younger brother who depended on each other also died in the belly of a fish when he was sixteen years old. That year, she was determined to change her destiny and vowed to forget the poverty and helplessness she had experienced, as well as Qin Jianghai, the young fisherman who broke into her heart for the first time. She married into a wealthy family with her famous embroidery skills and a pair of three-inch golden lotuses tied out of her hands. But fate has not changed. She was widowed at the age of twenty-three, when her son was only five years old. At the age of thirty, she finally defeated all her tyrannical elders, became the head of the family, and had everything in her kingdom. But she did not defeat the dormant love and resentment against fate in her heart. That year she found out that she was pregnant, and the man was actually a valet, just because he had a face similar to Qin Jianghai. This was her second time Facing the challenge of fate, the difference is that this time she did not escape, she faced it forcefully, and then, she won. This woman lived for seventy-five years. It was not until she died that she realized that her lonely fate in this life seemed to be destined at birth, just like the lines on her broken palm. Original music 1 Red Sedan pure music 2 Waning Moon pure music 3 Fate pure music 4 Farewell to the Lord pure music 5 Qing Dou pure music 6 First Snow in Kyoto pure music 7 Jing Meng pure music 8 Yuanyang Embroidery pure music 9 Osmanthus Alley Pan Yueyun's film trailer

The film describes a woman's bumpy life. She seemed to have a particularly hard life, as her parents, younger brother, and husband all died early. Only she dares to fight against fate and will not compare with the challenges that life throws at her. Finally, step by step, I reached the end of my life. In the face of fate, traditional forces and traditional concepts, she is the strong one and the winner. The director used deep brush strokes to portray the image of such an independent and persistent female, and rooted her in the soil of national cultural traditions, giving her outstanding characteristics of oriental women. Through the revelation of her life's destiny, people can see a profound, stagnant and mixed cultural atmosphere of good and bad. Literary works

"Osmanthus Alley" is a typical legendary novel, which narrates the life of the heroine Gao Tihong in a very long way. Summary of content

The heroine of this book, Gao Tihong, was born at the end of the 19th century, before and after Taiwan was ceded to Japan. The red-picking hand is skillful and careful, and the beauty is outstanding. After her father went fishing and died in a shipwreck, her mother died of overwork. She buried her mother and supported her dependent brother by doing embroidery. Everyone in Beimen Island knows that Guihuaxiang, the daughter of the Gao family, is good at embroidering flowers, and people from ten or eight miles away send her flowers. Her younger brother was young and worked on the fishing boat Wanli. Qin Jianghai, who worked on the same boat as him, took good care of Ti Jiang. One evening, Tijiang came home and said that Qin Jianghai asked him to ask Tihong to make him a purse. What kind of wallet does a grown man want? Tihong thought: This shows his intentions! What kind of wallet does he want? He is--. Thinking of this, my red heart beat like a drum, and my cheeks and ears turned red. Then, on February 16th, the gods were worshiped, and the statues of the gods in various temples in Japan were invited out of the temple one by one. It’s so lively as the gods’ sedan chairs cross the street! Ti Hong and her little sisters went to Beimen Island to watch. One after another, the teams performing in the art pavilion passed by the lion formation and the dragon formation. They were the young people from the field who were in charge of the Song Jiang formation. Children. Qin Jianghai is the most conspicuous figure in the team. I saw that he was clean and silver-white from top to bottom, holding the banner of the Songjiang Formation alone. His movements and steps were all impressive. The flag tilted, swayed, waved, and waved, all in perfect position. The hearts of the embroidered daughters who were watching were all on him. They were talking about it: "In the whole Beimen Island, he is the only one who doesn't look like a fisherman!" The team stopped and walked, but Tihong understood: he kept looking at her with boredom. After this incident, for several days, Tijiang saw Qin Jianghai passing by Osmanthus Alley from time to time. However, for many days, the two of them never exchanged a word, often just a smile or a wink. Just like this, Tihong still understood that in their era, it was enough. She knew that one day, he would call a matchmaker. He had seven or eight younger siblings, and she couldn't get married early anyway. Tijiang was only 13 this year. In two years, when he was 16, she would marry him first. Only by herself can she leave this place! How she wished she had a strong shoulder to lean on, so that she no longer had to shoulder the burden of everything herself. One day, the wife of Li Qingfeng, the richest family in Beimen Island, and Tihong's uncle and aunt came to her home to arrange a match for her and propose marriage to her. The other party was the Xin family of Lin Shigang. The Xin family was a well-known family, known as Xin. Xin Zhaoyue, who is not a member of the Communist Party of China, has a son who is 20 years old this year, 4 years older than Tihong. Tihong thought again of the man holding the banner in front of the procession to welcome the gods. Ti Hongzhong lowered his head and kept wringing the ropa in his hands. Seeing that she was noncommittal, the matchmaker said that it didn't have to be immediate, but would wait for a few days until she decided. At this moment, the steward and bookkeeper of the Wanli ship came hurriedly.

Before they could speak, their red hands began to tremble. Not only her hands, but her whole body was trembling. She suddenly wanted to reach out and cover their mouths before they opened their mouths, and then found the root. Big needles were used to sew everything up. The Wanli fishing boat capsized, and only Qin Jianghai was rescued, while Ti Jiang disappeared. After her brother's body was found, Tihong was so painful that she fainted. When Tihong woke up, she found that Qin Jianghai was also among the crowd in front of her. She thought that although Qin Jianghai escaped this catastrophe, he was still living in a fight that could kill him or her at any time. He is still a fisherman and still goes to sea. Would she still want to live with him and give birth to a bunch of children for him, so that one day he would go to sea and never come back, or be carried back like Ti Jiang? She lay on Ti Jiang, thinking about it before looking back. Look, these people who were born in the harbor had the same fate, so she decided to accept the matchmaker's offer and marry into the Xin family. She was too familiar with the poor life, used to it and was too afraid of it. She didn't want to live it anymore. The year Ti Hong married Xin Ruiyu was the year after the Sino-Japanese War; subsequently, the Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan. When she first got married, she always tried to be careful; she had been in a family for generations and had many rules, so this was not a good meal. But it wasn't long before she figured it out.

If you really want to manage this family with your own abilities, it is more than enough. Even so, she still knew how to restrain herself deeply and let Ruiyu make the decision in everything. However, he was not naturally interested in taking care of things, so sometimes she had to speak out. Now, she wears silk satin, is covered with fine silk, carries silk in her hands, and is dressed in silk; she is a maid and a cook, old and young, making slaves and maids, and she doesn't even have to comb her hair. Do it yourself. Perhaps her fate was inseparable from Osmanthus Alley; it was not surprising that there was such an alley in Linshigang, and it happened that the Xin family was also in Osmanthus Alley. The same red bricks, the same passage of time; the difference is that in the past, the Gao family's house was inconspicuous, but today the Xin Mansion occupies most of the alley. It rained the day before yesterday, and her house leaked; now she is clean, and no matter how heavy the rain is, it can't splash on the silk curtains and glass windows. She seemed to have come to Xin's house just to take shelter from the rain, a heavy rain in her life. When Xin Ruiyu was intimate with her, she would sometimes suddenly think of someone. That person had never been so close to her, and there had never been a word between them. If it can be called love, their love is so desolate and bitter. That couldn't be considered love after all. It could only be said that the two of them had promised each other and cherished each other, but that little root was pulled out by myself before it could sprout and grow. When Tihong was 18 years old, she gave birth to her son Huichi. Soon, Tihong's husband Ruiyu died of an incurable disease. When he was dying, he told his family: You must support her widows and orphans to support this family. "Ding Ju Ti Hong:" When our son grows up, we must teach him to be diligent, thrifty, conservative, pragmatic, and down-to-earth, slow in speech and hesitant in action. The most important thing is not to let him order people, fetch water, add tea, or go out. He cannot sit in a sedan chair, he cannot be served by someone older than him, he cannot be arrogant or indulgent when he is young, and he cannot raise birds or fish..." Huichi entered a public school when he was 8 years old. Before that, he was also with the church. The brothers had studied Chinese classical literature from their teacher. Tihong was very strict in educating his son, and would often beat him with a piece of bamboo when he woke up in the morning and asked him why. He didn't want to eat it. Tihong took the bamboo slices, caught Huichi and beat him, while teaching him: "You know how people lived frugally in the past? Your grandpa, grandma and uncle often had nothing to eat. , took two mouthfuls of porridge, dipped the pair of bamboo chopsticks in the soy sauce, put it to his mouth and sucked it twice, and then immersed himself in eating. Occasionally, a piece of salted fish and half a plate of pickled melon were like treasures, saved for one meal. One meal, I just couldn’t bear to eat it. Today you have a rich meal and a table full, but you are still talking about you and saying that you won't eat?" She said about the past, the angrier she became, the angrier she became, and the more she beat her, until the bamboo fragments were broken, but she still didn't let go, and then I found one. When Huichi graduated from high school, she and her cousin went to Japan to study. After Huichi left, Tihong realized that the surroundings were empty and lonely. Opium. She found Yang Chunshu, a young man who rolled cigarettes for her. This Yang Chunshu looked like Qin Jianghai 20 years ago. One day, she had a relationship with Yang Chunshu and became pregnant. But Yang Chunshu was just a strong man. He was not the real man he wanted. He was neither Xin Ruiyu nor Qin Jianghai, but she made this mistake for him just as her belly was getting bigger day by day. Her son Huichi came home from Japan for vacation. He suggested that he ask his mother to travel to Japan with him. Tihong knew that his son had noticed her difficulty. What was rare was that he didn't know how long he thought about it before he came up with this perfect solution. After describing it, he could solve the problem without hurting his face. He was really a pure and filial son. Mother and son were connected to each other. She could not say a word, but he could respond to her and fully understand and take care of her. Huichi stayed there for a few days. Although he didn't know anything, he guessed it to some extent; however, it was absolutely not true, absolutely not, there are no parents in the world. He even realized that this crime should be redeemed by himself: in this world, every word and deed is not unique. It is related to one's own blessings, which is to honor one's parents and to provide shade to one's children and grandchildren. Filial piety and filial piety are the lifeblood of Han national culture and their true roots. Over the past thousands of years, China has experienced many wars and catastrophes, but today, it can still stand. It is because he has these roots, which go deep into the soil. When he was a child, he recognized Chinese characters and read scriptures. After arriving in Japan, many Chinese classmates came from the mainland and he was able to read Chinese. He accepted it in a foreign land. The true origin of national culture.

Before leaving, Tihong accepted Huichi's advice and sent Yang Chunshu away who was rolling cigarettes. Mother and son, they found a house in a small place called Ibaraki between Kyoto and Osaka and settled temporarily. About four months later, Tihong gave birth to a baby girl here. Before she was one month old, she gave it to a local elderly Japanese couple. After she came back, she arranged a marriage for Huichi. During the summer when Huichi was 24 years old, Tihong called him back to get married. Although her daughter-in-law Shen Bilou came from a wealthy family, Tihong disliked her very much and made every possible effort to make things difficult and torture her. After her son returned home, she kicked her daughter-in-law out of the house. Two years after Shen Bilou left, Huichi went to the West to study for a doctorate, and then moved to the mainland to work in Nanjing. He came back from Nanjing several times and even secretly visited Shen Bilou. Shen Bilou had remarried a long time ago. When Xin Huichi found her, he saw her cooking with a child on her back. She was living a hard life and even gave her money. Later, Huichi got married in Shanghai. Tihong liked this daughter-in-law very much and loved her even more than her daughter. After Huichi and his wife left, Tihong stood alone in the courtyard of a big house in the Xin family. Love and hate are the same in the end, but they can't change those two words in her life: live alone. When she turned 60, Huichi and his wife brought their children back to celebrate her birthday, and several relatives from her natal family in Beimen Island also came to congratulate her. Ten days later, Huichi and his wife took their children and left again. Tihong sent away her son, daughter-in-law and grandson, and her whole heart became deserted again. She still couldn't forget Qin Jianghai and always wanted to see him again in this life. So, she returned to Osmanthus Alley in Beimen Island. Revisiting an old place can’t help but be filled with emotions. After marrying to Linshi Port, there was no news from Qin Jianghai. In that alley also called Osmanthus fragrans, she enjoyed all the wealth and honor in the world, but she also experienced the pain and suffering of having money and no one. Compared with having a leaky house and catching the rain, the time and years in Xinjia's Osmanthus Alley were her truly more miserable fate. In the past forty years, she had never stopped thinking about Qin Jianghai. Although she was awake and asleep, he was still the one she kept in her heart. While her car was parked in Osmanthus Alley, a private car also drove up from the other side of the alley. She only saw an old gentleman wearing a Western suit and trousers stepping out of the car. It turned out that this person was Qin Jianghai. He went to Japan in his early years, and now he is extremely wealthy. He has bought many properties in Japan, married several wives and children, and lives in Taipei. Over the years, she had been looking for him unknowingly. She didn't find him, but she hired a substitute - that Yang Chunshu... For this, she made a big mistake and almost lost her life. Today, she found him. , but it was such a blurry shadow, the face that I had been looking for for half a lifetime, appeared on the window of a passing car like this, and no one knew who it was on the way back. They were destined to miss each other, what else could she say? However, as long as she knew, as long as he came back, he would definitely visit her old residence. In this life, she is enough. When she knew that after forty or fifty years, that man had returned to Osmanthus Alley to miss his old love, just for this reason, Tihong felt that all the hardships she had endured were worth it and were nothing. In 1945, Taiwan was liberated and the Japanese left. Huichi returned with his wife and children, and at the same time, he established many businesses in the north and south of Taiwan. Three children are also studying in Taipei. Although father, son, mother and daughter come back often, Tihong still has her lonely moments. Her son and daughter-in-law begged her several times to live with them in Taipei, but she refused to go. In the spring of 1959, 80-year-old Gao Tihong passed away. Appreciation of Works

The author's inscription on the title page of this book is: "Dedicated to our ancestors with rough hands and thick calluses." The life of the heroine Gao Tihong has gone through the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese occupation period, and after the liberation, from her girlhood to an 80-year-old old lady. Her fate is somewhat similar to Qiqiao in Eileen Chang's "The Story of the Golden Lock". She, a poor orphan girl, changed her life through marriage because of her beauty and high ambitions. She rose to the sky in one step, from abject poverty to a wealthy family. She is different from Qiqiao. What's strange is that despite her wealth, she can never forget the misery of her childhood. Later, even in my later years, I would often recall the past years, like running naked in the heavy rain. After traveling for ten miles and hundreds of miles, there was no place to hide. She was soaked from head to toe, completely soaked. Sometimes she would ask herself: Is marrying into a rich family just to avoid the rain? The author meticulously describes the details of Ti Hong's foot binding when she was young, which is similar to the mainland writer Feng Jicai's "Three Inch Golden Lotus", but it is not showy, but It is closely linked to the background of the times, characterization and plot development; Ti Hong was lying on the bed before he died in old age, "Hearing the gentle drizzle in the wind, no, there is another part of it." The unmistakable sound is the sound of a silver dragon flying across the roof, echoing in the cold night sky, which is a unique feeling of friendship in ancient China. "The characters in the author's works (especially the women) are all lifelike in their speech, behavior, emotions and thoughts. The characters and their flesh-and-blood "sorrows and hatreds" make "Osmanthus Alley" full of irresistible charm for today's and future generations of readers. What's rare is that the author was only twenty-six or seventeen years old when she wrote this book. She said in the postscript "It's Me Who Picked Up the Red": "A person with keen feelings and strong self-control can't help but be under the impact of the new trend." She had so many things to say about the nostalgia of the old culture. The characters in the book were delivered one by one under such circumstances, and they evolved into different lives in different encounters in the world. Those who are careful must be careful. From this book, I can see my deep and flesh-and-blood feelings for Ti Hong. I really love people like her, straight into my heart.

Who is Ti Hong? In my opinion, Ti Hong is the cutest old-fashioned Chinese woman. Love and hate are really strong, and grudges are clear. It is neither loved nor unloved... In fact, the long history of Chinese culture has lasted for five years. In the thousands of years, months, light, and darkness, I don’t know how many women like this have lived. Whether they are far or near, they are our blood relatives. In the time and space where nights are like years and years are like nights, each has its own blood, tears and bitterness. (So, in the story of "Osmanthus Alley", what is false is true, what is true is false.) Their good deeds cannot cover up the mistakes they made, but those mistakes cannot diminish their good deeds. Just because of this criss-crossing, people can have another kind of clarity and understanding about human nature and the flesh while sighing. "Due to the different humanistic environments across the Taiwan Strait, the author reveals the fatalistic view of feudal superstition to a certain extent in his works. About the author

Xiao Lihong, female. Born in 1950. A native of Budai Town, Chiayi County, Taiwan Province. Once Won the 1980 Taiwan United Daily News Literary Award for Novel. Her hometown, Butai Town, Chiayi County, Taiwan Province, was a once prosperous town, just like Lukang, another ancient town in Taiwan. Xiao Lihong's novels are all based on the ancient Chinese cultural tradition of the Central Plains, which is the origin of the early mainland immigrants. He occupies a very important position in the world and is the author of novels "Osmanthus Alley", "A Thousand Rivers Have Water and a Thousand Rivers of Moon", a collection of short stories "Lengjin Jian", etc.