77 years ago today, on January 14, 1948 (December 4, 1947 lunar calendar), the movie "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward" set a record for the highest sales of Chinese movies. Stills of the movie "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward" On January 14, 1948, the movie "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward" (first and second episodes), co-directed by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli and photographed by Zhu Jinming, has been released since October last year. It has created the highest sales record. It has been screened for three consecutive months and has reached 712,874 audiences. The plot of the film is: female worker Sufen (played by Bai Yang), married to teacher Zhang Zhongliang (played by Tao Jin). When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Zhongliang joined the ambulance team and was ordered to evacuate Shanghai. Sufen returned to his hometown with her mother-in-law (Wu Yin) and children. Zhongliang was shot by the Japanese invaders in Nanjing, and when Yichang fell, he became a prisoner of the enemy. Later, Zhongliang escaped from the clutches of the Japanese invaders and arrived in Chongqing, where he lived on the streets. As a last resort, he went to ask for help from Wang Lizhen (Shu Xiuwen), the sister-in-law of Manager Wen, whom he knew before the war. Wang Lizhen had become a famous social butterfly in Chongqing by this time. He finally fell into Wang Lizhen's arms and fell into a vain philistine. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai and lived in the house of Wang Lizhen's cousin He Wenyan (Shangguan Yunzhu), with whom He Wenyan colluded. Sufen went to He Wenyan's house as a maid. Sufen finally found out that the man with Wang Lizhen was her husband. The next morning, Zhang's mother and Sufen's mother and son came to see Zhang Zhongliang, recounting Sufen's eight years of suffering, and persuading her son not to abandon Sufen. But under Wang Lizhen's obscenity, Zhang Zhongliang did not dare to express his attitude. Sufen threw herself into the river in despair.