Spring Blossoms Facing the Sun

In the early days of reform and opening up, Cheng Xiangyang, a young man from a poor area of western Shandong, defies his family's objections and sets off to seek his fortune. His childhood friend Feng Quan goes with him. His sweetheart, Jiang Chunhua, is kept apart from him by one obstacle after another, while Feng Quan gradually finds his own path along the way.

When they meet again, Cheng Xiangyang and Jiang Chunhua have both built careers of their own. They resolve to return to their hometown and use Chinese medicinal herb cultivation techniques to help it escape poverty, bringing prosperity to every household and composing together a song of rural prosperity amid the tide of reform and opening up.