Smoke and Fire at Fengqiaowu

During the Xianfeng era, the Hu family of Fengqiaowu is targeted by the Taiping Army because of its Golden Lion brush rest. Inside the family, the treacherous nephew Hu Jingshan conspires with the enemy; outside, the land is beset by war. Hu Bingkun, his son Dingshan, the longtime farmhand Chen Wu, and the others reinforce their defenses and hold their home at all costs. They fight the Taiping Army to the death at Pangcui Cliff. The family's fate and the lives of the people in the fortified village intertwine, composing a tragic song of local resistance amid the flames of war.