Cat Tune in Sorghum Field

The story takes place in the Northeast Township of Gaomi, Shandong Province described by Mo Yan, and the time span is sixty years from 1935 to 1995. The core industry is Gaomi local opera "Maoqiang" (Maoqiang), a kind of rough and sad folk opera with wild howling and wildness. The story begins in the troubled times on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, and goes through the Anti-Japanese War, the Liberation War, the theater troupe restructuring after the founding of New China, the cultural shock after the reform and opening up, and the protection of intangible cultural heritage in the 1990s. In terms of the world view, the root of the land is emphasized - sorghum is the core image, representing wildness, vitality and cruel laws of survival; Maoqiang is not only a livelihood skill, but also a spiritual totem and a weapon of resistance that unites the villagers; in this rough world, people use their most primitive vitality to cope with the crushing fate of fate, and finally complete self-shaping through the tempering of skills.