The Whole Internet Needs Help Butchering a Pig for New Year’s, and a Pig Feast Warms Every Home

[Warmth from all corners of the internet + Ensemble cast finding redemption + Deeply healing + A utopia steeped in New Year spirit] [Also known as: New Year’s Eve in Yunqi Village: A Home for Broken Hearts] Yu Nanli, a former assistant to a top food blogger, looks at the unruly New Year’s pig in her family’s yard and her grandmother, who wants a taste of pork stew. She posts a video asking for help: “It’s just me and Grandma at home, and we can’t hold down the New Year’s pig. Can anyone come help? I’ll provide a meal, and there’ll be meat.” She only meant to find two or three neighbors to lend a hand. Instead, the video goes viral overnight, sparking the internet’s most absurd yet heartwarming mass pilgrimage to the village! An unemployed young man spends his last bit of money on a ticket for a slow green train: “I just want to eat my fill before I die.” A CEO suffering from depression tosses out her sleeping pills and drives her Maybach into the snowy countryside: “I want to find out why people keep living.” A top-tier star takes off her immaculate makeup and shows up barefaced at the village entrance: “I don’t want to be famous anymore. I just want a home.” And there are cancer patients’ family members, fathers who lost their only children, overworked executives, and more... Three thousand lonely souls brave the wind and snow, all for a steaming bowl of pork stew. And so Yunqi Village goes wild! A three-hundred-jin pig bursts out of its pen, the CEO gets dumped in a mud pit, a young man grabs the pig by the leg, and an old man blasts “The Toreador Song” on his suona. The whole internet is in stitches! A Michelin-starred chef squats beside a clay stove to learn from a village woman; A fussy rich city wife learns sausage-making from a cured-meat master; At the “A Breeze in the Human World” food train, Yu Nanli heals everyone with banquet after banquet made with the flavors of home. This is Yunqi Village: where you’re caught when you’re breaking down, where nobodies warm one another, a utopia steeped in the New Year spirit. This winter, bring your story and come home for a meal.