Oranges are ripe

Author: Zheng Zhong Wang Yao
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book is a work by Qiqun, a female writer from Taiwan. It tells her memories of her hometown, which is a story of a family. The grandmama, second mistress, big uncle, Xiuhuo, Yaohui, and others living in the mansion each have unique personalities and different views on life and love, with countless stories to tell. The 73rd Academy Award-winning foreign language film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was produced by Mr. Li Ligong! The 73rd Academy Award-winning art director Ye Jintian directed the costume design for this play! Another masterpiece from the original cast of The Legend of Daming Palace! This is a touching story set in a Jiangnan town during the late Qing Dynasty, featuring traditional women, represented by the big mistress of the Rong family and the tenant farmer Xiuhuo, who resist the feudal marriage system through their own experiences, embodying themes of awakening and struggle.
Due to her infertility, the grandmama is ignored by the young big uncle and left alone in the orange groves in the countryside. When the grandmama learns that her husband is intimately involved with a socialite named Yanhong in the city, she decides to take action for her fate. Thus, Xiuhuo, the daughter of a tenant farmer, appears. Her youth is eerily similar to that of the grandmama, who immediately recognizes her. The grandmama decides to marry Xiuhuo into the Rong family, hoping that if she can bear a child for the Rong family, her dream of keeping the big uncle by her side forever will come true.
Her nephew Yaohui replaces the big uncle as the groom at the wedding! However, at the moment of lifting the veil, Yaohui falls in love with Xiuhuo. From then on, everything follows a path that leads the grandmama to despair...