(The cast and crew members / Sina Photo)

Chinese director Gu Changwei is getting ready to wrap up the shooting of "The First Day of Spring," or Li Chun in Chinese.

As a follow-up to his directorial "Peacock", "The First Day of Spring" is about three mini-stories in the less developed small northern Chinese city during the whole 1990s.

Gu's star wife, Jiang Wenli plays an instructor at a local music academy, who dreams about touring around the world as a famous soprano.

Dong Xuan plays a neighbor of the soprano, a young housewife whose rich husband run away with everything she is proud of.

And Zhang Yao plays a student of the soprano, who shaves her head to support his boyfriend undergoing cancer treatment and becomes a favorite at singing contest after claiming she herself is a cancer patient.