What's the story of spring in a small town?

Appreciating the classic works unanimously recognized by China's film industry has created a precedent of psychological realism, relatively complete prose structure and poetic films in China's film history, which "radiates dazzling light". Hong Kong film critics rated it as "the best film in China", and the famous director Zhang Yimou said that his favorite China film was Spring in a Small Town.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a small town in the south.

Spring has come, Taigong Dai Liyan, his wife Zhou Yuwen, his sister Dai Xiu and his servant Lao Huang live as usual. Li Yan lost his family property in the war, was seriously ill, lost the courage to face reality, and was unhappy all day. Sister Dai Xiu is cheerful and lively, full of beautiful fantasies about the future. In the face of the dilapidated condition of the house, Mrs. Yu Wen and her husband politely lived a dull life. The husband and wife respected each other as guests, but in fact they had no feelings at all.

This life was broken by Zhang, a young doctor who suddenly came to town. He is a friend who has been polite for 8 years and an old lover of Yuwen. They had a good relationship, but they were separated by Yuwen's mother. However, nature makes people, and now Yuwen's mother is dead, but she also has a husband.

Zhang lives in Dai's house and sees Li Yan. His arrival set off a huge wave in Jed's heart. Two people often date behind their backs, talking about the past years, tears in their eyes, and they are very helpless about the status quo that jade has become someone else's wife. Their feelings are bound by etiquette, cut and confused.

Liyan's sister Dai Xiu fell in love with Chen Zhi. Liyan and Yuwen talked about it and wanted Yuwen to have a blind date with her sister, but she told Chen Zhi herself. However, Yu Wen opposed it from the bottom of his heart and refused his request. Yuwen revealed it to Chen Zhi when talking to him, and Chen Zhi also refused.

It was Dai Xiu's birthday, and several people held a banquet to celebrate. The upset Chen Zhi and Yu Wen were drunk. Li Yan guessed some of their special relationships through their behavior. Later, after careful consideration, he thought that he should not drag his wife down for life, so he decided to help them both. He swallowed sleeping pills and wanted to commit suicide.

After the rescue, Li Yan came back to life. Through this twists and turns, Yuwen also re-recognized his feelings with her husband. She chose to live with her husband again, and Zhicheng decided to leave the town.

One spring morning, Yu Wen, Li Yan and his sister Dai Xiu saw Chen Zhi off at the top of the city. They watched Chen Zhi go to the outside world.