Main actors: Guoli Zhang, Wenli Jiang
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Introduction:
The story of this drama began in 1956 when the new China was in full swing. Wenli and Tongzhi were an ordinary couple. Their marriage started in the sunny 1950s. They experienced the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s after the founding of New China, and entered a new era, experiencing the most intense and greatest changes in the history of New China for fifty years. This play is not only the fifty-year history of the marriage life of the protagonists, but also a history of the republic of New China. The drama chronologically tells the bumpy fifty-year marriage journey of the couple year by year.
A young and pretty primary school math teacher named Wenli (played by Wenli Jiang) married a young role model of a heavy machinery factory and technician named Tongzhi (played by Guoli Zhang). From their youth to old age, from knowing each other to falling in love, from passionate romance to daily trivialities of marriage such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt, and even becoming parents and then grandparents, they went through a long and bumpy fifty-year marriage journey.
When they were young, they were a pair of happy enemies. Wenli, the wife, was from Beijing and ranked third in her family; she was beautiful and lively, loved Soviet love novels, and was full of romantic expectations for love and marriage, with a serious petty bourgeois sentiment, and was picky and capricious, had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and did not know how to live. Her husband Tongzhi was from Chongqing, the youngest in his family, an only son, with an outgoing and humorous personality, full of youthful vigor, but very practical and lacking in petty bourgeois sentiment. When they first got married, they were incompatible in both character and living habits, and became parents too early. There were conflicts everywhere in their married life, from clothing, food, housing, and transportation to children's education, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, and even sexual relationship. They often quarreled over small things, causing chaos, but fortunately, they loved each other, and always reconciled after arguing.
In middle age, they entered the marriage fatigue period. Husband Tongzhi was busy with work and neglected his wife's feelings, while wife Wenli, at middle age, was full of fear and complaints about life. Tongzhi worked in a third-line area for a period to seek development, and the couple lived apart. Tongzhi encountered emotional temptation from a young woman, and upon hearing this, Wenli made a big fuss at the party committee of the factory and transferred her husband back, restoring the couple's relationship. However, this incident left behind hidden dangers, affecting Tongzhi's career prospects, making him feel frustrated and unfulfilled. The heavy burden of the family made Wenli become trivial and nagging.
There was less and less communication between the couple. They no longer fought frequently like in their youth, but often fell into more dangerous cold wars. The couple's relationship went from indifference to cold war to physical fights, and it seemed that the marriage had reached its end. At this time, the young woman who once tempted Tongzhi reappeared in his life. In middle age, Tongzhi, under the dual blows of career and emotion, fell deeply in love and had a mental affair. After learning about this matter, Wenli became mature after her sorrow and anger. As a wife and mother, she struggled to support the family through this major crisis. She didn't argue or make a fuss, endured humiliation and burdens, took care of her seriously ill mother-in-law, and educated her four children of different ages. Tongzhi hesitated between emotion and responsibility. Deep down, his wife and family were still the first. At the most critical choice point in life, under the temptation of passion, Tongzhi still chose the family and chose kinship.
In old age, they entered the stable phase of their marriage, supporting each other and unable to separate. Life was not kind to this ordinary couple. In their old age, they were plagued by illness, with Wenli suffering from a serious illness and hovering on the brink of life and death. The three daughters' emotional and marital lives were not smooth, and their beloved only son died prematurely. They experienced the most painful moment in life: burying their child before themselves. It was their mutual care and support that helped them through the darkest days of their lives, moving forward with difficulty. Eventually, they held hands and walked into their golden wedding anniversary.