Siheyuan: Rebirth 1979, She Went Crazy Killing

On the winter night of 1979, Gu Wanqing, a 25-year-old female textile worker, breathed her last in the courtyard. When she opened her eyes again, she was back to the day when her fate changed - the matchmaker was coming through the snow to propose marriage to her. Living a new life, Gu Wanqing tore up the life script that was like a foot wrap. She sneered at the monsters in the courtyard: the evil mother-in-law who calculated the bride price, the neighbor who was greedy for petty gains, the sanctimonious leader... In this life, she no longer tolerated it. During the day, she is a female worker in a textile factory, and at night, she is a hard-working mistress in night school. She had to learn mathematics, physics, chemistry, politics, history and geography from scratch. In 1979, the second year after the college entrance examination was resumed, this was her only chance to change her destiny. From courtyard houses to university classrooms, from Beijing Hutongs to Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. She wrote articles, made movies, opened a company, and thrived in the wave of reform and opening up. Those who had bullied her, humiliated her, and looked down upon her could only look up at her back in the end. This is an epic of rebirth for ordinary women and a microcosm of the progress of an era. Watch how Gu Wanqing used a pen and a camera to write his own legendary life in the turbulent years.