Secret Post in Canton

A wedding musician fails to wed his own love: Little Trumpet is raring to marry his childhood sweetheart, but a series of setbacks has prevented them from getting their way. Criticism against social formalities becomes all the more forceful with the clever use of contrast and irony, not to mention the realist and comedic touch a la Zhu Shilin. Of special mention is the famous teahouse scene where dynamic, melodic camerawork creates a hilarity that continues to amaze to this day. A genuine masterpiece with every single detail, down to the minor props, forming an integral part of a whole. Today, young couples are struggling nonetheless to get a roof over their heads, a testimony to the fact that poverty still reigns beneath the facade of harmony and stability after all these years.

Set in early 1960s, the police prevents spies from destroying city infrastructures before the National Day.

In the spring of 1961, the Shanghai Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences spread a news that shocked the biological world: the world's first toad without a grandfather was born, and the artificial parthenogenesis experiment was successful! Just when everyone was immersed in a festive atmosphere, an astonishing bad news made people fall into extreme grief. Because the creator of this scientific miracle and the famous biologist Dr. Jin Yuxi, he was killed by cancer without even having a look at the results of his labor.

During the Northern Expedition, Zhao Haishan of Fengshuwan returned from studying at the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute. In Fengshuwan, he set off a vigorous peasant movement. The peasants were the masters of the local tyrants, the gentry and the farmers. During the movement, the peasants really understood the gun. The truth of political power comes from the inside. In the episode of this film, "The spear shines on the peasants to arm the old world with a gun in hand" was once all the rage, and it was widely circulated across the country.

Heroes and monsters in the mystical past

Set in the period of land reform movement, a poor peasant Zhang gets a fertile land. But he doesn't work seriously on it, then loses money and runs into debt. Song wants to buy Zhang's land but his son thinks that they should help Zhang.