Rooster Crows at Midnight

This art film is a puppet film, adapted from Gao Yubao's novel of the same name. In the "old society", the landlord class had all kinds of tricks to exploit farmers, one of which was imitating the crow of chickens in the middle of the night. As the Chinese New Year was about to come, landlord Zhou Papi came up with a trick to imitate the crow of a chicken in the middle of the night in order to fire long-term workers who had worked hard for a year and prevent them from getting their due wages. As soon as the long-term workers lay down after a hard day's work, he tiptoed into the chicken coop and imitated the crow of a rooster twice to cause the rooster to crow. Then, at his urging, the long-term workers had to get up and work in the fields. He thought in his mind that if the long-term workers continued to work like this, their bodies would soon be unable to bear it, and then there would be sufficient reasons to fire them. But his ruse didn't work.