这，就是青春

Fu Hong female in the "Red Detachment of Women" ballet plays a small female soldier, due to the qualifications are not yet shallow, the performance is always in a corner of the stage as an accompaniment, it is difficult to have the opportunity to show themselves. In an accident, she fell off the stage and fell into a coma. When she woke up, she found that the situation had become very bad .

In October 1934, after the failure of the Fifth Counter-Encirclement Campaign, the Central Red Army was forced to withdraw from the Central Soviet Area and begin a strategic retreat to escape the encirclement and pursuit of Nationalist forces. Along the way, under relentless ground assaults and aerial bombings, the Red Army fought bravely, breaking through enemy lines time and again. During one such breakout, in Shazhou Village, Rucheng County, Hunan, three female Red Army soldiers stayed overnight at the home of an elderly woman named Xu Jiexiu. Before leaving, they cut their only quilt in half and left one part for the old woman. Later, Xu said, “What is the Communist Party? The Communist Party is the people who would cut their only quilt in half and give one part to the people.”

The film is adapted from the writer Liang Xiaosheng 's novella "The Tired Man". The film follows the protagonist, Wang Junsheng from as an educated youth working in the city, to the formation of his family, and finally to him in middle age as a 46 year old small soy sauce factory deputy director.

Wang Guang, adopted by a kind couple who gave her the chance to study, is inspired by a revolutionary speech to join the fight against Japan. After witnessing the brutal deaths of loved ones, she joins the Eighth Route Army, endures hardships, and grows into a determined fighter. She becomes a Communist Party member, studies at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and later leads a guerrilla unit. Wang implements reform policies and avenges the massacre of villagers.