The wars of the Republic of China burned out the prosperity. Shen Qingci, the daughter of the Shen family of the Peking brocade family, took over the responsibility of the Huayao Brocade Society when his family was ruined. The red-gold "red cloud pattern" brocade hides family secrets, and also leads to the life-and-death relationship between her and the revolutionary Yun Yizhou - the side-by-side breakout by the West Lake, the war in the mountains of southern Anhui, and the secret struggle in the Shanghai Concession. They used silk threads as blades and brocade as media to pass on information and raise military supplies in troubled times, letting the red-gold phoenix flap its wings in the flames of war.
From the warlords' melee to the Anti-Japanese War, from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution to the wave of the new era, the five generations of the Shen family used the loom as a shield to guard the thousand-year-old skill of Chinese brocade weaving. Yun Yizhou's determination to die for his country, Shen Qingci's insistence on never marrying, Shen Yan's persistence in protecting treasures in troubled times, Shen Nianzu's tenacity in paving the way with his life, and Shen Shenmei's innovation in expressing love through art. Each generation has experienced life and death in the torrent of the times, but they have always kept the "plum fragrance" and "weaving soul" endless.
The red gold phoenix weaves endless yearning, and the crimson background dyes the feelings of home and country. This is a family epic that spans a century. It is an elegy of BE aesthetics intertwined with love, death and obsession. It is also the indelible persistence and inheritance of Chinese traditional culture in the midst of war and changes.
