Director: Liu Starring:/Meng Yao/Li Liqun
Plot introduction:
In the 1940s, Cheng Nan, a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, was famous for its silk since ancient times. As the old saying goes, "The world is full of silkworms when they are ripe". The story of this film takes place on the eve of the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Yao Jia and Zhang Jia are famous silk giants in Cheng Nan. The silk of the Yao family is an ancestral family business. This mansion, built by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, has been widely funded and developed in Yao's hands, and has firmly occupied the top spot in the industry. Zhang, the head of the Zhang family, made a fortune by a banker's father-in-law, dreaming of defeating the Yao family, and has since become a leader in the silk industry in Jiangnan.
The Yao family and the Zhang family compete for fame and fortune, and the second young master of the Yao family is charming, regardless of his father's cultivation, indulging in the myriad customs of Meiling, a famous woman in the south of the Yangtze River; However, faced with the encroachment of Japanese textile industry on China, Yao and Zhang showed totally different attitudes. Yao and Zhang's children are inevitably involved in this confrontation, and their love, affection and friendship have become complicated and bizarre, heartbreaking.
Zhang, the head of our company, is a patriotic and upright businessman who specializes in China silk. He has two sons. The eldest son was born to Mrs Yao and was named Yao Bofei. The second son, Yao Boya, is said to have been born to a "player" named Jiumei and Yao's grandfather. After giving birth to the child, his mother was expelled from the government and never heard from again.
In this way, although the two sons were born in rich families, their life experiences and personalities were completely different: Bofei was regarded as the "justified" eldest son of Yaomen and sent to Japan to study. Peng Gengfu, Zhang Fu and Zhang's niece Tao (the niece of Mrs. Zhang's aunt) went together; On the other hand, Boya stays at home and studies. Because of the lack of maternal love since childhood, I have developed a stubborn character of being bohemian and daring to fight. Although he seems to be "crazy" and "ignorant of the world", he is a kind person who knows right from wrong, hates evil and has a special liking. When Japanese militarists invaded China unscrupulously, China became scorched earth, and the people of China were in dire straits, Yao Bofei, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper who drank foreign ink and was personable and brilliant, suddenly became the translator of Mr. Watanabe, the Japanese aggressor, and had an affair with Yao's so-called "wife" Tao Kai (in name only). Later, under the coercion and inducement of the Japanese invaders, Yao Bofei personally led the Japanese to copy Fu Yao! Master Yao broke off his father-son relationship in a rage.