Eight Ranks of Beacon Fire

In 1931, the artillery fire of the September 18th Incident tore through the night sky in Northeast China and completely changed the fate of countless Chinese people. Li Changgen, a passionate soldier, rebelled angrily in the defeat of Beidaying and embarked on a thorny road of resistance; Su Wenhan, a young teacher full of ideals of educating the nation and saving the country, resolutely joined the army after witnessing the tragic fall of Shenyang, and searched for the true meaning of national salvation in blood and fire; From the white mountains and black waters to the beacon fires of Songhu, from the foothills of the Taihang Mountains to the jungles of Yunnan and Burma, three Chinese people with different origins and different stances, like millions of compatriots, were swept up in the torrent of the times. Their destinies intertwined, collided and sublimated in the grand narrative of the fourteen-year war of resistance. Some of them sacrificed before dawn, some carried pain and memories towards victory, and some placed their unfinished ideals on the future. Eighty years later, their descendants - a tenacious archaeologist, a persistent history scholar, and a teacher dedicated to peace education - are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, following the vague footsteps of their ancestors, trying to piece together and understand that distant history. When the wars of the past intersect with the peace of the present, they finally understand that remembering is not to perpetuate hatred, but to imbibe the national integrity of perseverance and courage in desperate situations, so that the fire that spans eighty years can illuminate the new journey of national rejuvenation. "The Eight Orders of the War" - an epic of family and country spanning eighty years, an affectionate hymn dedicated to the unyielding soul.