Eight thousand Hunan daughters go to the Tianshan Mountains - watch full episodes online

In the early 1950s, after Xinjiang was peacefully liberated, the decision-makers of New China ordered the 200,000 troops stationed in Xinjiang to cultivate wasteland and settle down there with the aim of changing the situation since ancient times that reclamation ended after one generation, thereby achieving the strategic goal of long-term peace and stability. Under the call of the Central Committee of the Party to build Xinjiang, a wave of enlistment swept through Hunan Province, and soon enthusiastic women from Hunan gathered in the ancient capital of Changsha to sign up for military service. Literary youth Chu-Yu Zhuang, twin sisters Cai-Ling and Cai-Wei, maid Xi-Mei, Yun-Jie Qiu and Yue Shen from Zhou-Nan Girls' Middle School, among others, representing eight thousand women from Hunan, set off for Xinjiang with the beautiful aspiration of building the frontier and embracing their sacred youthful dreams, bidding farewell to family and friends. They endured hardships and arrived in Xinjiang.

On the way, the women endured countless difficulties. In their first stop—Xi'an, they encountered a bus rollover accident where Cai-Ling died a glorious death. Witnessing this tragedy, coupled with homesickness, Yun-Jie Qiu and Yue Shen became deserters, but fate brought them back to the army. At the time, bandits still roamed within Xinjiang's borders, ready to seize food and people, seriously threatening the troops entering Xinjiang. To ensure the safety of the eight thousand women before winter, our army deployed an elite force for reinforcement. Meanwhile, under Chu-Yu Zhuang’s leadership, the women used their umbrellas as weapons, cooperating with the troops to completely annihilate the bandits. The women experienced the passion and cruelty of war during this operation.

After months of arduous travel, the women finally reached the camp of the troops stationed in Xinjiang. However, awaiting them were even more severe challenges: living in underground shelters, eating boiled wheat with salt water, drinking bitter groundwater, and most unbearable of all, not being able to bathe for months. Faced with these conditions, the women burst into tears, unable to believe that their long-awaited military life was like this.

The arrival of the eight thousand women brought the dawn of life to the vast wilderness. Male soldiers showed the greatest enthusiasm in protecting and caring for these younger sisters. The leaders of the troops hoped that these male and female soldiers could harvest love through shared labor, completing the two-generation reclamation historical mission that their predecessors could not accomplish. The free-spirited Chu-Yu Zhuang met her Prince Charming, Fang Xu, and launched an aggressive pursuit. Among the other women, the honest Cai-Wei was the first to be ardently pursued by the simple Tie-Shan Tong. After repeated setbacks, Tie-Shan Tong finally married Cai-Wei as revolutionary partners. The other women also took on this historical responsibility without hesitation, writing a new chapter of revolutionary romanticism, idealism, and heroism in the vast desert and Gobi!