Tian yu was released in the year 1998。Tian yu is also called as Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, Xiu Xiu he ta de nan ren, Xiu Xiu - unustatud tüdruk, Xiu Xiu - unohdettu tyttö, Xiu Xiu - Pigen der blev glemt, Xiu Xiu。

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.