In 1925, five girls' middle school students made a promise on the playground: "Our generation will pull this country out of the quagmire."
They don't know how difficult the road ahead is.
Xie Yunjin, a talented woman from a scholarly family, used her pen to awaken the sleeping Chinese people. Her articles were banned and she was wanted, but she never put down her pen.
Shen Nianqiu, the daughter of a family of traditional Chinese medicine, aspires to be a surgeon. She sewed up the wounds in the gunfire, searched for the living among the dead, and used her own hands to snatch back every life from the hands of the King of Hell.
Lin Zhaohua, the daughter of a Hunan farmer, ran away from marriage to join the army and grew from a soldier to a commander. She led troops to fight, trained female soldiers, and fought her way through guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
Zhao Lanyin, the daughter of a rural teacher in Sichuan, opened the first primary school in a dilapidated temple. She took her children to escape the war and continued her classes in the ruins, using education to plant the seeds of hope in the suffering land.
Su Qing, a female worker in a Shanghai cotton mill, rose from child labor to worker leader. She organized strikes, was imprisoned, and traveled to Yan'an, where she spoke for workers and women throughout her life.
Zhou Ruoshui, the daughter of a salt merchant in Tianjin, went from playing the role of a talented scholar to a national salvation drama. She used the stage as a battlefield, igniting the people's blood with her songs and lines.
There is also Gu Nanqiao, the daughter of an overseas Chinese who returned from Nanyang, who reported to the underground radio station until the last moment. She died before dawn and failed to see the five-star red flag rising.
The Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War, and the founding of New China - some of them fell on the road, some saw the light, and some continued to move forward with heavy burdens.
Twenty-four years later, they reunited in Tiananmen Square. Five star red
