A Little Reunion: A Chinese Series Reflecting the Life of every family

In Chang Zeng
3 min readMay 20, 2020

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Conflict and clash are always the fact being unavoidable in every family. There is no complete silence and peace as the process of children’s growth. This series perfectly copy the various real situation from those traditional Chinese family. However, It gets the applause not only because actor’s acting. It is more closed to every’s one real life and pasted experience.

First of all, the most amazing point in this series is about the cast. So many people were stunned when the first poster came to the public. I almost had no doubt to the family picture because they looked so alike. Honestly, I have network searching about the relationship between the actors because I really feel like they are biological. Anyway, the story is basically going around these three families. As “A Love For Separation,” a drama of the series lead by Huang Lei and Hai Qing gave audience an impression, The “little joy” this time brought up more astonishment about the rough time of Gaokao to the audience with tow new combinations (Tao Hong and Yi Sha, Mei Yong and Yanhui Wang.)

The Fang family is a template for middle-class families. One of the most important factors for this family to bringing happiness is the good communication between parents, children and couples. This harmony is mostly brought by the father Fang Yuan, who guides mother Wen Jie Tong and the children to have equal and friendly in talking.

It can be seen that the educational style of the Fang couple is more democratic. They respect children and give them selective guidance instead of control. The whole family atmosphere is equal and harmonious, then way of Wei dong Qiao’s indulgence and Qian Song’s strict manipulation.

First of all, Ying Zi’s family is not happy at all. I mean Parents don’t want to manipulate their children’s lives, and children aren’t never understand the love from their parents, but they catalyze their contradiction at the special node during the time of college entrance examination. And this always is one kind of embodiment in this family.

Song Qian felt that she had paid a lot of effort for her daughter, but Ying Zi didn’t appreciate it. But in fact, this is not what Yingzi wants. Song Qian never asked what she liked about, what she felt like, and what she wanted. And she didn’t even know if her daughter doesn’t like garlic or astronomy. In Ying Zi’s view, she just wants to escape her life and she just wants her father back to the family.

Ji Yang Yang’s family is the most stereotypical one showing the worst parent-child relationship at the beginning of the story. The relationship between the father and son is really very tense. But fortunately, Liu Jing, his mother is very reasonable and understandable.

After being hospitalized, Liu Jing missed his family even more, and was particularly afraid that stiffness between his husband and son so Liu Jing became more verbose. After knowing his mom’s sick, Ji Yang Yang determined to be a good student for not being worried in his family.

please let me know which family you like the most or you feel connected the most.

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