My Family: Online Movie

In an ancient village in the mountains of Guangxi, Li Mingde and his wife in their later years were childless and lived a lonely life. In the cold winter of 1948, they found an abandoned boy at the entrance of the village, wearing thin clothes and a mutilated copper coin hanging around his neck. Out of kindness, the couple took in the child and named him Li Zhiyuan, thus opening an extraordinary chapter in the family's history. At that time, China was on the eve of great changes. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Mingde and his wife barely made a living by relying on a few acres of thin farmland and his father's carpenter skills. The old couple treated their adopted son as their own and saved money to send him to school. Li Zhiyuan was also very sensible and went to the fields to help with farm work after school. However, the good times did not last long. A natural disaster in 1958 caused an extreme shortage of food in the village. The family had to rely on eating wild vegetables and digging tree roots to satisfy their hunger. The elderly Li Mingde became ill due to overwork and eventually died of starvation while fighting hunger. Zhiyuan and his mother depended on each other, and life became even more difficult. Zhiyuan, who was in adolescence, had to drop out of school and return home, becoming the only laborer in the family. At that time, one work point could only receive half a bowl of food. Facing his mother who was waiting for food, Zhiyuan learned to look for various edible things in the mountains, especially the sour hawthorn, which became a life-saving food in that era. Later someone commented that if someone asked now about the taste of that era, the older generation would probably say "it's the sourness of hawthorn, mixed with the saltiness of tears."