Summaries

Recently married Shuilian finds difficulty adapting to her new family. Despite an understanding mother-in-law and sister-in-law, her brother-in-law's wife Qiangying is determined to make life tough for them all.

Details

Keywords
  • family relationships
  • in law
Genres
  • Drama
  • Family
Release date Feb 6, 1981
Countries of origin China
Language Mandarin
Production companies Ningxia Film Group Shanghai Film Studio

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 40m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

In a north China village, Renwu Chen gets married to Shuilian Xu. She presents quite a contrast to his elder brothers wife Wang Qiangying, a selfish woman who tries to get all she can from her mother-in-law. With the arrival of the new bride, this extended familys situation grows more complex. Qianying tries to arrange a marriage for her husbands younger sister without her willingness since she doesnt like her. Qiangying pushes the extended family to live separately so she can get a bigger house and have fewer burdens of taking care of her parents-in-law. But her husband slaps her after finding her offering poor food to her father-in-law when preparing good food for her kids. Qiangying goes back to her parents who support her, which causes a bigger conflict between the two families. Shulian convinces her sister-in-law to apologize to their father-in-law, and they eventually become a happy family.

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