The TV series Red Sorghum is adapted from China's first Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Family, directed by Zheng Xiaolong and starring Zhou Xun, Zhu, Huang Xuan, Amanda and Yu Rongguang. The play tells the story of a modern legendary epic system about love and hate, conquest and being conquered, which was created by Jiu-Er in Gaomi, Shandong Province in the early 1930s.