Old Home Chen's Home

Synopsis of the story of "The Chen Family in the Old Home" This is an epic story about home. In 1962, Chen Shoucheng, a silent grain shop worker, married Su Meiyun, a tenacious textile worker. In an era of scarcity, they used a spoonful of food and a spoonful of love to build a home in one and a half rooms of the "Old Home". They raised five children, and with daily necessities, they went through the most turbulent but vital years of New China together. The five children grew up into five kinds of lives: the elder Wei Guo sacrificed himself for the family, the second Wei Min traveled south but got lost, the third Wei Li experienced vanity and awakening in marriage, the fourth Wei Hong used knowledge to change his destiny, and the fifth Wei Qiang learned to take responsibility through stumbles. The wave of reform and opening up caused them to go their separate ways, and drastic changes in the times and family rifts also followed. They quarreled over money, suffered over choices, and almost separated. But the roots of "home" are always deeply rooted in the silent love of parents and the memory of the nursing home. As time goes by and parents grow old, children finally return home one after another after the storms of life. On New Year's Eve in 2008, the family sat together again, and my father opened a letter that my mother had left before her death. The words in the letter describe the ordinary and great life of an ordinary Chinese family: love is giving, home is the destination, and reunion is the best answer in life. From food stamps to demolition, from scarcity to abundance, the story of the Chen Family Home is a microcosm of millions of Chinese families. It tells the story of how a family uses love and tenacity to bring generations of people together in the tide of the times.