Synopsis
This animated puppet film, adapted from Gao Yubao's novel, depicts the harsh realities of peasant life under exploitative landlords in the "old society." To force peasants into labor, landlords used brutal tactics such as imitating rooster crows at night. As the Lunar New Year neared, landlord Zhou Paopi devised a plan to fire his hardworking workers without paying them. After the workers fell asleep, Zhou crept into the chicken coop and mimicked rooster calls, making the real roosters crow and rousing the workers to go to the fields. His goal was to exhaust them so he could justify dismissing them. However, Zhou's cunning scheme ultimately failed.