Xin Huang

Old-fashioned, middle-aged Yang Hongqi claims that on a rainy night he saved a university coed from the threat of sexual violence on the outer limits of Nanjing city. He soon begs Gu Guoge, a superstar reporter at Nanjing Newspaper, for public kudos in the press. (imdb)

A family is torn apart over the absence of a marriage certificate.

The story begins in 1927 at the beginning of the Nanchang uprising, known as the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement. (wikipedia)