At the turn of the century, the old Beijing city was about to run out of energy and the Qing Dynasty was lingering. Various forces rose up one after another, and various speculators disappeared from time to time in the team of saving the country. In a corner of the old Beijing city, the Yutai Teahouse run by Wang Lifa (played by Chen Baoguo) witnessed the changes of every seat in the era, and also took in the various ordinary people under the turbulent tide. The declining eunuch Pang (played by Zhang Huizhong) and Song Erye (played by Shi Xiaoman), who hugged the thigh of the times, Song Enzi (played by Liang Tian) and Wu Xiangzi (played by Liu Hui), who took national salvation as their own responsibility, Qin Erye (played by Xie Gang), who lived at the bottom of the society, Liu Mazi (played by Cui Jie). All kinds of people, all kinds of people in the world, in the turbulent historical torrent, a tragicomedy that makes people sigh... This film is adapted from Lao She's classic drama masterpiece.