Family Portrait 2013

After the demise of the feudal dynasty, and after half a century of war and turmoil, the ancient land of China finally ushered in the long-lost peace. The founding of New China has brought great changes to the fate of the most ordinary people under the Imperial City. The upright and loyal Wang Mantang (played by Wu Gang) is a craftsman who grew up in the old society. With his unique skills in restoring ancient buildings, he leads his partners to shoulder the revolutionary task of restoring ancient buildings for the new society. In the small courtyard, there also live the widow Liu Cuilan (played by Qin Hailu) with a lively personality and Dr. Zhou (played by Hao Ping) who has a tortuous love story. We are close to our neighbors from afar, we look down and see each other, the children grow up day by day, strangers and familiar guests come and go, dotting the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the courtyard. In the subsequent anti-rightist, cultural revolution and other movements, the small courtyard house was like a small boat at the end of the stormy sea. The most ordinary group of people, they witnessed the earth-shaking changes of the motherland and the vicissitudes of life in an instant, writing their own extraordinary lives with their hands...