The story told in the TV series "My Second Half of Life" revolves around the family of retired professor Shen Zhuoran. Through a unique perspective, delicate emotional expression and light comedy style, it presents a different picture of life to the audience. The drama also relies on its in-depth exploration of the themes of marriage and love in the elderly and the plot setting that is close to reality, which triggers people's questions about intergenerational responsibilities, social care and even the essence of life, providing the audience with a multi-dimensional space for thinking.

　　Shen Zhuoran had four blind date stories after his wife passed away: the head nurse Lian Yilian ended in embarrassment due to the disagreement of real estate registration, and said goodbye to astronomy professor Nie Juanjuan because the woman was seriously ill. She couldn't resonate with the cultural differences between former trade union chairman Lu, and gave up with makeup artist Le Shuishan because of emotional needs. This is an old age experience with love, pain, laughter and awkwardness. Through repeated emotional collisions, Shen Zhuoran gradually realized that happiness in his later years is not simply about finding someone to associate with, but also requires mutual understanding and respect. He must face his inner panic calmly and cherish his current life. The activities of the elderly choir in the play are run through the folk song "A Good Jasmine Flower". Nie Juanjuan provides literary guidance to the chorus, and chant "The Peony Pavilion" is chanted "What are the beautiful scenery and the sky, and who is happy to enjoy things?" and the poem "When you meet, remember to paint the bridgehead, flowers are like spirits and willows are like soft" by Zhang Lei, a Song Dynasty scholar, into the song, echoing the elderly's feelings about the fleeting spring and their memories of beautiful love. It also extends "How can you know that spring is like this without the garden" to "How can you know that the world is worth it if you don't come to the world", inspiring the people and audiences in the play to still actively face the gifts of the years in the second half of their life, conveying deep wisdom of life.

　　At present, people enjoy the "longevity dividend" due to the overall extension of human life span. However, physical aging and social role transformation of the elderly, contradiction between self-cognition and other people's cognition, collision of intergenerational concepts, etc. are all social issues that the elderly must face. Shen Zhuoran's sorrow of losing his partner and the pain, disappointment, helplessness and confusion experienced with Nie Juanjuan, Dean Ding and others, outline the common survival dilemma of mankind in his later years. Shen Zhuoran changed from seeking companionship due to loneliness and loneliness to looking at feelings more rationally and adjusting his attitude towards life. His story with "new and old people" such as Nie Juanjuan and Gou Bingqiang shows that for everyone who will eventually aging, aging is not an exit, but an opportunity to break through the spirit.

　　The absurd factors that come with Wang Meng's original work "The Strange and the Strange and the Wonderful Blossom" collide with the sublimation of the TV series "My Second Half of Life", highlight the spiritual power and life meaning of the elderly. The elderly characters in the play actively pursue their own value and reconstruct the image of the elderly, which is a film and television presentation of "active aging".

　　Huang Lan, the producer of this drama, once sparked heated discussion on the topic of urban women's growth with "My First Half of Life". The camera of "My Second Half of Life" is directed at the middle-aged and elderly people, and the pursuit of Luo Zijun and others' value in the first half of their lives will continue to the second half of their lives of Shen Zhuoran, Nie Juanjuan, Gou Bingqiang and others. Luo Zijun broke out of the cocoon and became a butterfly, walked out of the siege of marriage, Shen Zhuoran was approaching and calmly "lived to death". The two "half lives" connected in the first and second are powerfully explained: at every stage of life, self-growth is a compulsory course. (Liu Shuxin)

[Editor in charge: Susan]