Plot synopsis of the 1982 mainland movie "Flying Cranes"········In the endless reed swamps of the Nenjiang grassland, there lived the hard-working and kind-hearted couple He Fengzhu. They made a living by raising cranes and fishing, and guarded the red-crowned cranes.

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During the "Cultural Revolution", they adopted a baby boy and named him "Xiao Xiang". From then on, they and Xiao Xiang formed a happy family. After rectifying the chaos, Bai Lu, the ballet dancer in the "Red Crowned Crane" dance drama,

In order to experience life and find his only son who had been lost for 8 years, he came to the hometown of red-crowned crane and stayed at He Fengzhu's house. Xiaoxiang took the egret to fish and play in the rippling blue lake;

The group danced gracefully. The egret fell in love with the grasslands and red-crowned cranes in Nenjiang, and fell in love with the smart and lively Xiao Xiang and He Fengzhu. After contact, the egret couldn't control her feelings when she recognized that Xiao Xiang was her long-lost son.

She held Xiaoxiang tightly in her arms and kissed her son whom she had missed for many years. However, she thought of the hardships and kindness of He Fengzhu and his wife in raising Xiaoxiang, and she could not bear to destroy this harmonious family and hurt the two old people.

She hid her love for her son deeply in her heart. He's mother also noticed this. She sympathized with Bailu's misfortune and pain, and let Xiaoxiang and Bailu live together, asking them to enjoy the love of mother and son.

At night, Bailu wrote a warm and sincere letter, expressing her deep gratitude to He Fengzhu and his wife. Then she kissed her sleeping son goodbye and left quietly, leaving He Fengzhu and his wife deeply touched.

Uneasy, when the cranes flew south in autumn, He Fengzhu and his wife reluctantly returned Xiao Xiang to his biological parents. After Xiao Xiang came to Beijing, Bai Lu, who wanted to have a successful son, forced him to learn piano and wanted him to become a pianist; his father, Ding Zhenpeng, wanted him to become a pianist.

He was asked to learn painting and wanted him to inherit his father's career and become a painter. Xiao Xiang was not interested in this. Only his grandfather, who was a professor of Wu Zoology, understood him and took advantage of the situation to inspire and educate him.

When Xiaoxiang flew back to his hometown, he missed the red-crowned cranes and his adoptive parents in Nenjiang very much. One day, after his mother mistakenly deleted the tape of the birds singing, Xiaoxiang left sadly without saying goodbye. Xiaoxiang accompanied his red-crowned cranes and returned.

Nenjiang who nurtured him and his parents who raised him.