Synopsis: Aini Mountain is a mountain where Aini People live generation after generation. It is located in the tropical rain forest in Xishuang Banna , Yunnan Province. Aini People have never tried to grow vegetables or crops. Instead, they depend on the way of “slash-and-burn cultivation”. The building of a freeway, which later has become the bridge to the outside world, finally breaches this tradition. The foreman of the group is a Bai people, and he falls in love with a located Aini girl. Finally they eloped from the village since other people are all against their marriage. However, the couple go back again ten years later, and put up a shed near the freeway, and live on the gaining of selling vegetables, which are grown in the rented land dilapidated by located people. Other Hani people begin find that they live a better life than the villagers who have their own land. They gradually learn to grow vegetables and do run a small business with people from the outside world. The residents of the mountain finally welcome the Bai guy, who was banished for breaking the regulations of the clan and has lately lost money in the trade.
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