Get your tissue papers ready, as the heart-wrenching love story between Lao San and Jingqiu unfolds on television! Popular actors Li Guangjie and Wang Luodan team up again as the star-crossed lovers after collaborating on A Story of Lala's Promotion. Compared to Zhang Yimou's film adaptation Under The Hawthorn Tree, the highly anticipated TV drama directed by Li Lu is more faithful to the best-selling original novel and is able to depict the pure romance in subtler and richer detail given a bigger canvas.
Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, Hawthorn Tree Forever follows introverted high school girl Jingqiu (Wang Luodan), who is sent down to a small village to write teaching material. Taking lodge at the home of the village head, Jingqiu meets "Lao San" Sun Jianxin (Li Guangjie) from the excavation team, who can play her favorite Soviet folk song on the accordion. The two young souls are deeply attracted to each other, and their innocent romance is sealed with their first kiss under the hawthorn tree...
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