Old Stories from Xidi: the Pearl River Flows Eastward, and the Flames of War Dye Yangcheng

In 1932, under the arcade on Xidi Second Avenue. The fireworks life of a group of street vendors, Xiangji Cloth Shop, Gao Lao Herbal Tea Shop, Akuan Barber Shop, Rongchangji Grocery Shop, A Ping's sampan, and the little patrolman Yongcheng, where the neighbors make a living. Pulling cloth, making herbal tea, shaving, teaching, boating, quarreling, drinking, singing Cantonese opera, all the excitement of the market. In the autumn of 1938, the Japanese army approached Guangzhou. Bombing, escape, occupation, good citizen certificate, control, rice shortage. The war collapsed like a wall, pressing on every ordinary person. Some people left, some people stayed. Those who stayed behind each had their own way of living, each had their own struggles, and each had their own unwillingness to bow. This is a group of people who are not leaving. They don't know how to fight, and they don't have guns, but they are guarding a street and a city in their own way.