Jiaoxiang Hongqiao

Deep in the vast mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Huajiang Village is isolated from the outside world by the surging Huajiang River section of the Beipanjiang River Basin. In the 1980s, the spring breeze of reform and opening up was blowing hard on this ancient land. Wei Aman, a girl from the Buyi ethnic group, was singing a melancholy ancient song in the morning mist beside the chain bridge, and unexpectedly discovered the stubborn Zanthoxylum bungeanum growing on the cliff. This scarlet ignited her hope of breaking free from the shackles of fate, and also planted the seeds of changing Huajiang. At the same time, she met Cheng Yue, a bridge engineer who came here to survey and map dangerous bridges. In the process of jointly guarding a "forbidden marriage monument" in the Qing Dynasty that reveals the pain of national estrangement and integration, and exploring the secrets of ancient cave roads, two young hearts quietly get closer in the spark of the collision between traditional imprisonment and modern knowledge. Aman was not afraid of rumors and secretly grafted the "demon tree" to bring pepper from the cliff into the fields; Cheng Yue used triangles and surveying notes to open a rational window into this closed world. However, a heavy rain tore apart the chain bridge, which symbolized historical memory, and Cheng Yue fell into the river, leaving only a diary filled with bridge dreams and unsent letters, revealing his unknown life experience. A narrative epic spanning thirty years, with the Huajiang Grand Canyon as the stage, Zanthoxylum bungeanum and bridges as the warp and weft, weaving a magnificent picture of the struggle of Buyi women, the birth of engineering miracles and the protection of cultural roots, playing a strong voice in the era of rural revitalization.