Local folk legend

"The White-Haired Girl" is based on a story from northern China, in which a young girl named Xi'er is taken to be a concubine of a landlord after Xi'er's father is beaten to death by the landlord because of a debt that he owed him.

Xi'er is removed from her love, Wang Dachun and works day and night at the landlord's home. Sick and tired of being a slave, Xi'er makes a successful escape from the tyrant's home with the help of the housemaid and hides in the forest. She wears tree leaves, eats wild fruit and fights with beasts.

In the meantime, Wang joins the Liberation Army and they fi nally find Xi'er several years later.

Xi'er's hair has turned completely white because of the deprived life she has been living.

Overjoyed to be reunited with her love, Xi'er returns to the village to marry Wang and join the army while the treacherous landlord is punished for the murder of her father.

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