Drama Info:
Title: The Cradle (啊摇篮) A Yao Lan
Episodes: 40
Release Date: May 4, 2021
Film Location: Yan An
Summary: The Chinese drama is adapted from a real story and tells the story of the revolutionary experience of many revolutionary workers fighting to protect the red descendants during the Anti-Japanese War in the 1940s when the Party Central Committee established a nursery school in Yan’an.
Plot Synopsis:
In 1940, Chou Zi Gang, a progressive youth from the Yan’an Anti-Virus University, is suddenly appointed by the central government to establish the Yan’an Nursery.
Chou Zi Gang refuses: “I didn’t come to Yan’an to be the king of children. I didn’t expect Mao Ze Dong to be the first to send his daughter Mao Jiao Jiao to the nursery.”
Since then, the orphans of the martyrs, the descendants of the soldiers of the War of Resistance, and the children of revolutionary leaders such as Mao Ze Dong and Liu Bo Cheng is given to the rural women and aunts who are not well-educated or even illiterate.
The nursery experiences many historical events such as the “battle against whooping cough”, “Liu Hua Bei’s death”, “renaming to Los Angeles Nursery”, “enemy plane bombing”, “secret counterattack”, “struggling to cross the Yellow River”, “Chinese and foreign journalists visiting group ” and much more.
In 1947, when the Kuomintang bomb Yan’an, Mao Ze Dong and Zhou En Lai instruct that the nursery retreat with the first batch of Zhongzhi agencies. During the retreat, the team of more than 300 people and more than 100 carriages become violently attacked by the enemy.
In the end, Chou Zi Gang follows the People’s Liberation Army into Beijing with the children without any casualties. On the day of the founding ceremony, the children stand in the square and watch the five-star red flag rise.
Trailer:
Cast & Characters:
Hai Qing 海清 as Chou Zi Gang 丑子冈
Chou Zi Gang is ordered to lead a group of revolutionary workers to embark on a legendary life of conservation.
Li Ze Feng 李泽锋 as Zhang Jing Ping 张静平
Supporting Characters
Zhou Ye 周也 as Tang Su Su 唐素素
Zhu Rui 朱锐 as Shen Yuan Hui 沈元晖
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Airing Schedule:
Start: May 4, 2021
Frequency: 2 episodes every Monday to Saturday, 1 episode on Sunday
End: May 26, 2021
