20at the beginning of the century, there was a bailu plain in zishui county, weihe plain, where a group of ordinary but extraordinary people lived. aaa。 the bailu family is combined into a village, which is interdependent and has a subtle relationship. the young master bai jiaxuan (played by zhang jiayi) and lu zilin (played by he bing) are secretly competing for the position of patriarch. jiaxuan married xiancao (played by qin hailu) who fled, and gave birth to three children, xiaowen, xiaowu and bai ling. lu zilin loves to follow the wrong path and is determined to let his two sons zhaopeng and zhaohai shine their ancestors. born in a chaotic world, the city wall is filled with the flag of the king. but no matter who becomes an official, it is inevitable that the people at the bottom of the family will be affected. bai jiaxuan, under pressure from all sides, became a well-known hard bone on the bai lu plain. but when the children grow up, they each have their own ideas. zhaopeng (lei jiayin decoration), who refused to arrange a marriage, joined the communist party, and his younger brother became an officer of the national army. bai ling followed zhaopeng into the party, and xiaowen was determined to please his father, but gradually deviated from the right path. the half-century picture shows the appearance of all living beings in the troubled times of china... this film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the late writer chen zhongshi.