The actors disinfect the ground, and the background screen shows the empty city traffic during Wuhan's lockdown.[Photo/Xinhua]

The playwright Zhao Ruitai says he has been living in Wuhan for 60 years and has a profound love for the city. At the peak of the epidemic, the busy streets of Wuhan were empty. On the third day of the Spring Festival holidays, people confined at home opened their windows in the evening, and shouted and prayed for Wuhan. He took the initiative and wrote the play for the city's anti-epidemic feat. He hopes the audience would know that they constitute their own arena of value and they should ponder on life's meaningfulness, one that has been generally neglected but reexamined during the epidemic.

Wu Yaling, the principal of Wuhan Yucai Yikang Primary School, says after the premiere: "The people of Wuhan in the moment of crisis are united to fight the epidemic. When the actors chanted 'Come on Wuhan', I saw many audiences shed tears. Thank you retrogrades. You are the people who have worked hard for Wuhan. It is you who led us out of the haze and usher in the warmth of spring."