According to the cast list of "The Road to Life", Fan Wenxiu is a teacher of Shanghai Pujiang College, and all his students like him very much. His actor is Fan Deng. The play premiered on CCTV 1 on March 20th, 2023, and was broadcast simultaneously by iQiyi.
The play is a major cultural masterpiece project in Shaanxi Province in 2022, which is partly adapted from Lu Yao's novella Life. It tells the story of Gao Jialin, a young man who lives in Gaojia village in northern Shaanxi, trying to change his destiny. In the tide of the times, he wrote an extraordinary life story of ordinary people.
After failing in the college entrance examination, he returned to the village as a high school student and became a teacher in a private primary school. He was full of hope for life, but he was replaced by the son of Gao Minglou, the powerful brigade secretary. He returned to the land, and his feelings with rural girl Liu Qiaozhen and urban girl Huang Yaping were ups and downs.
Plot content:
In the 1980s, Gao Jialin, a young man living in Gao Jiagou, northern Shaanxi, was called the "No.1 scholar" in the village when he was a child. Although his family is poor, he is more eager to read poetry, and he is determined to get rid of the yellow land. The college entrance examination was his only chance to change his fate, but he failed the list. He tried to become a private primary school teacher, and the teacher establishment was squeezed out.
Gao Jialin fell into the bottom of his life. With the encouragement of Liu Qiaozhen, he cheered up, insisted on writing, ignited the hope of life, and fell in love with Qiaozhen. Uncle Garin's return to the village indirectly provided Garin with the opportunity to be a reporter in the county seat. He met like-minded classmate Huang Yaping in the county seat. The silent protection of Qiaozhen, a country girl, and the passionate love of Huang Yaping, a Shanghai girl, put him in a dilemma.
After several struggles and choices, he came to Shanghai with a pen. The test of fate came one after another. In his thirties, Gao Jialin learned that his university places had been replaced by his good friends. Even so, Garin was not defeated. He followed the times to learn new knowledge, worked hard, experienced changes in the world, and wrote extraordinary life stories of ordinary people in the tide of the times.