Seek for the subplot of the drama Xi Shi (西施)

This is a contemporary story that takes place in the hometown of Xi Shi.

Through the different stories of three women: Axi, a 16-year-old tea seller; Shi Yu, a 26-year-old high school teacher; and Lian, a 36-year-old Yueju opera singer

Ripple, the story reflects the joys and hardships that people in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River feel as they go through the experience of chasing their dreams.

The young girl, Axi, lives in a century-old mansion, the Thousand Pillars House. In the national scenic area of Wuligata's Sanliatu: a tea pavilion, she performs the art of tea-frying for tourists every day.

Xioxi's childhood friend, Xiaomiao, has been a friend of hers for many years. Xiaomiao, Ruoxi's childhood friend, leads her brother in carrying sedan chairs in the scenic area

The three of them always start and finish work together, and have a good time. Ruoxi and Xiaomiao both dreamed of going out into the world and secretly saved up for the trip. One day, Ruoxi realizes that Xiaomiao and his brother have disappeared.

Shanghai student Haobo is sent by his father to Zhuji to join 26-year-old language teacher Shi Yu's class in the hope

of getting into university after recharging his batteries in Zhuji, which has a tradition of "cultivating and studying". Hao Bo is not the first in the school, and brings Shi

Yu a lot of trouble, but in the process of contact Shi Yu found that this boy has a lot of personality, and infected by it,

waves in the heart.

One day, after getting into trouble, Haobo stole a bag of cephalopods for Shi Yu to run home, and Shi Yu couldn't care less about getting married

Marriage registration to catch up with Haobo.

Lian Ru was the first actress to play Xishi in the Zhuji Yueju Opera Troupe, and has been playing Xishi for 20 years. Recently, the troupe is

the pains and joys experienced by the people of a small town in the south of the Yangtze River as they pursue their dreams. Yang Qianqian, who starred as Ajiao in Shake, Shake, Shake to

Grandma's Bridge, plays the role of Ruoxi, Ma Yili, who played the lead role in The Glass is Transparent, plays Shi Yu, and Huang Yiqun, an actress with the Zhejiang Little Hundred Flowers Yueju Opera Troupe, plays Lianlian in the drama.

In order to emphasize the strong local characteristics of the film, the film will also use more than half of the non-professional actors, male and female protagonists

also selected in the province. The news of the crew's recruitment of male and female protagonists was reported in the Qianjiang Evening News, which immediately touched the star dreams of young boys and girls

Within a few hours, more than a hundred boys and girls rushed to the recruitment site to apply for the job, and in three days time, those who went to apply for the job

amounted to 523 people. The Qianjiang Evening News literature and arts department's hotline continues to ring every day, replicating the scene in Hangzhou last year when director Zhang Yimou cast a talent show for

Happy Days.

"The Eyes of Xi Shi" is another collaboration between Guan Hu and Chen Daoming after "Black Hole". Guan Hu continues to act in the film as director

and Chen Daoming takes the role of adviser. "Xishi's Eyes" has been favored by insiders in the preparatory stage of the filming, and is said to have a high probability of

impacting the major awards of the international film festivals. Director Guan Hu has praised Liu Juyong and Yang Qianqian, who were recruited to play the two leading roles.

Guan Hu, who is obsessed with art films, quickly became popular in the TV industry after directing a TV series called "Black Hole," and there have been reports

that Guan Hu will direct "Black Hole's" sister film, "Black Gold," in March. But the situation has changed, Guan Hu has resigned from the

"Black Gold" drama, and is focusing on the post-production of "Xishi's Eyes", which is now being directed by the former director of the North Film Studio,

Chen Guojun.