The Red Peony

Public Security Bureau officer Li Xiao inflitrates a gang that is holding up trains in the 1980s.

The life and death of Zhao Yi-Man, a female member of the Chinese resistance

Set in the 1950s, the PLA exterminates residual bandits in the Yunwushan Mountain.

In the 1960s, bandits from Taiwan are provoking trouble.

Set in an old time in China, a young man buys a bride for marriage. The marriage brings new thoughts to the village because of the resistance of the bride.

In 1947, the Northeastern People's Liberation Army won a major victory in fierce fighting. In need of work, Molong Wang and his wife Juan Zhang were sent to work in Taohuachuan, a remote and difficult new area. As soon as he arrived in the district, Molong Wang and district official Chenzhong Liang went to the village and saw the fields dry up. The dam needed to be urgently repaired. The daughter of the village kulak Xumei Sun and the Kuomintang agent Jiantou Li conspired to provoke a series of problems to undermine the unity of the two villages in order to crack down on the new head of the district, Molong Wang...

The returned magistrate postpones his son's wedding and leads people of saline land to overcome poverty and achieve prosperity.