My Children, My Home

From 1978 to 2009, it was a turbulent thirty years of great changes in China. Through Aunt Yao's family, what is written is not just their family's life, but the tenacious, stormy and soul-stirring road of struggle that the Chinese people have gone through in the past thirty years. 1978. Chongqing. The pregnant Aunt Yao and her five children, big and small, knelt at the gate of the factory to seek justice for her husband, Uncle Yao, who had been fired from the factory for being drunk. Aunt Yao finally got the factory director to agree to their boss's request to take over Uncle Yao's class when he grew up, but she also gave birth to twins at the factory gate during the turmoil. Aunt Yao and Uncle Yao originally had five children. The first four children were named after "Prosperity". Except for the second child Lin Rong, the eldest Lin Fan, the third child Lin Chang and the fourth child Lin Sheng were all boys. The fifth child Lin Jing was a silent and stubborn little girl. With too many children, the family was already struggling to make ends meet, and now they have lost their biggest financial supporter, Uncle Yao, who has lost the ability to work due to alcoholism. Aunt Yao had to stand up and carry the family. The twins she had just given birth to were unable to support them anymore and had to be given away. However, one of the twins was lost on the way. Aunt Yao endured great sadness and carried the remaining one home. She was the sixth child of the Lin family.