"Fuquan" tells the story of a peasant family cursed by fate and blood, struggling, sinking and finally dissipating in the historical torrent of nearly a century.
From the violent death of the bandit grandfather, the bizarre experience of his father being tricked into selling his body, to the protagonist Yin Fuquan's seemingly accidental failed life that comes true step by step - the men in this family seem to be trapped in an inescapable reincarnation. Fuquan's name means "full of blessings", but he struggled with poverty, humiliation and his own bad nature all his life: he was scorned as a boy because of his birth status, he was lucky enough to join the army with an IOU but got into trouble because of drunkenness; he learned the carpenter's trade in middle age but was beaten for stealing a dog, and he married a wife based on a plan that humiliated the woman; in his later years, he suffered from poverty and illness, and the steel plate in his leg grew together with the flesh and bone, and he finally died alone in a corner where no one paid attention.
However, "Fuquan" is more than just a story about an underdog. Next to the hidden thread of the male bloodline's constant "corruption" is the silent and tenacious survival epic of the women in the family - the innocent girl whose hands were chopped off, the strong grandmother who fled with her son, the father and sister who were deceived and sold but tenaciously survived, and Fu Quan's wife Xiuying who lost her fertility because of him but stayed with him throughout his life. They endured deeper suffering, but maintained the last dignity and warmth of the family with amazing resilience.
The story adopts a dual narrative structure: in the real timeline of Fuquan's deserted funeral, through the old lady's memories, the family's vicissitudes spanning the Anti-Japanese War, liberation, land reform, cultural revolution, reform and opening up to the present day are slowly unfolded.
