How do rural people take root in the city? What is it like to start a business in middle age in "Xijing Story"?

"Xijing Story" mainly tells the story of Luo Tianfu's family who came to the city of Xijing from a remote rural area for some reasons to take root. During this period, it showed the difficulties of survival of rural families when they first came to the city, as well as the ideological conflicts between children and their parents. Judging from the whole story, it is very intentional. It shows the difference between rural and urban areas through the difficult situation of the small people at the bottom, implying that society continues to develop, and the survival of some small people who cannot keep up with the times becomes increasingly difficult. But the final ending still promotes positive energy and highlights the precious qualities of simple people. Although the concept and framework are good, the plot is very mediocre. Therefore this drama is not very good.

The first few episodes mainly talk about Luo Tianfu's son who had very good grades and could have gone to Tsinghua University and Peking University, but due to his own delay, his son missed the English exam and ended up going to Xijing Jiaotong University. In college, his son learned to compare. In order to compete for class president, he lied that his father was the county magistrate and spent a month's living expenses to treat classmates to dinner. Later, I became addicted to playing games. Although I wanted to make money through games, the atmosphere was also very unhealthy. These plots can be said to be very smearing for college students. They compete for their parents, are addicted to games, compare themselves, and later have plots of entering into pyramid schemes. Although these things exist in reality, it is a bit excessive to all happen to one person. A bit like a rural college student. Perhaps the director wanted to express the low self-esteem of rural children who first arrived in the city and could not resist temptation, but the way of expression was too straightforward and tough. These plots also appear in most dramas of the same type and are a bit cliche.

Although the previous plot is a bit straightforward, there are still enough conflicts and contradictions, and the whole story is relatively smooth. With the performances of the two veteran actors, it is still worth watching. But the later part of the workplace seems a bit messy. There are too many points that I want to express, but each point is not explained well, such as the problem of college students becoming unemployed after graduation, the difficult living situation of various small businessmen and hawkers, and the generation gap between parents and children. Questions and more. These questions are constantly interspersed, trying to highlight the realism and closeness to life of this drama, but the director's ability does not seem to have reached this level, and he cannot reasonably intersperse these questions to make the plot orderly, and in the end it only makes the audience feel messy.

In addition to these problems, there are still many bugs. A patient who has just been discharged from the hospital can spend a lot of money to replenish his body, which seems to have no common sense in life. This type of plot is not liked by young audiences, and most of them are middle-aged and elderly people. There are a lot of bad news about college students in society. Many elements of this drama are focused on a rural college student, so as not to make these audiences feel anxious and worry about their children.

In order to make the whole drama more meaningful, the director later added many social focus issues. The dissemination of a large wave of information was a bit unacceptable to young people, let alone middle-aged and elderly people. The plot is confusing and has no clear thematic point. If it weren't for the outstanding acting skills of the two actors starring as parents, which saved some shortcomings in the plot, and had a certain popularity among middle-aged and elderly people, the ratings of this drama would probably not be very good. The overall direction of this drama is very meaningful. If the director had dealt with the friction and adaptation of rural families coming to the city well, the drama would have been good. However, the director was too ambitious and the story was not told well.