Walking on a Half-Inch Shadow

A magnificent family epic spanning a hundred years, it tells the story of the Cheng family who immigrated from Waziba, Jiangxi to the Jianghan Plain, and the story of five generations of struggle, division and rebirth in the torrent of the times. During the reign of Guangxu, Cheng Zhongming embarked on a pioneering journey with a piece of pottery from the tile dam and a keel waterwheel. In the corner of the family's patio, a Jiangxi "Four Waters Return to the Hall" and a Hubei "Bronze Fish Drainage Spout" are quietly combined. The family's destiny is tightly tied to this "water bag" land, and it has been displaced under the impact of floods, wars and revolutions. The "Yi Niantang" drug store is the spiritual totem of the family, and hangs the family motto "Although no one can see the harmony, God knows the intention." This is not only a clinic for treating fellow villagers, but also a secret stronghold of the Red Army. It witnessed the silent love of Cheng Xiao, a deaf-mute, who used blood money to protect his sister-in-law and nephew, and also witnessed the tragic redemption of concubine Liu, who exchanged her life for three gold bars. In the fourth generation of reform and opening up, the family was completely divided in front of the ancestral hall: elder brother Cheng Jiachuan became a water conservancy expert, and younger brother Cheng Jiayi took the lead of his eldest brother and became a real estate businessman. The conflict between bulldozers and ancestral graves pushed the brothers' feud to a climax. Throughout, there is a copper medicine roller from the Guangxu period. It crushed herbs, hid genealogies, sealed admission notices, and eventually became the "chain of inheritance" in the museum, silently telling an eternal proposition about family, roots, benevolence and survival.