Northward

Both dramas have summer settings. Both also have same premise as two childhood friends/lovers reunited when they become adults and develop their feelings.

Romance, Life, Drama, Melodrama
Slow Burn Story, Family Relationship, Multiple families and relationships, Inner Monologue.

Northward and Go Ahead share a similar vibe in their portrayal of family dynamics and the bonds that form when neighbors grow up together. Both series delve into the emotional complexities of relationships within close-knit communities, where characters navigate life’s challenges alongside one another. In Go Ahead, the focus is on a group of friends who become family, dealing with personal struggles and evolving emotionally, while Northward similarly highlights the deep connections between neighbors and the growth they experience as they face life’s ups and downs. Both shows emphasize the importance of familial love, personal development, and the way that shared experiences shape the characters' identities over time.

Both deliver a good storytelling, both tell the different stories about family, relationships and love, both are so nostalgic and have a warm feelings.

Both are Slice of life drama in the ninties
Both are Business struggles kind of dramas
Both are so realistic and so nostalgic dramas
Both have that relatable feeling for ordinary people not Idol dramas

Family life
Hard working family members
Financial struggles
Happiness during hard times
Somewhat similar era
Same male lead

1. Zhai Zi Lu in both drama
2. Family drama
3. Illness and disease
4. Heart Warming
5. Shows life and youth
6. Friendship and family
7. Happen in previous era Northward starts from 2000s but this is 90s

Both series the leads struggle with their daily problems and try to solve it on a daily basis, both are relashioship of high school friends to adulthood wprkers, both deliver these feeling of friendship, family and love.

Both Drama Belongs to Family Genre Drama.
Both drama has rollercoaster journey of life which portray every stage of life in different light.

Both star Ou Hao and feature jumps in time.
Focuses on the high school days of 4 main characters and then on how their relationships change through adulthood.

Both dramas give u that nostalgic feeling when u watch, both drama hold the same feeling to them showing the passage of time and the importance of the relationships we create during our lives. Family plays an important role in both drama alongside with Friendship and neighbors in Northward. And you will probably cry while watching them, and u can learn many life lessons from both dramas if you watch them carefully and understand the deep meaning of their stories.

Both of the stories takes place in the past and it shows about the struggles faced by the people,in northward it's about five friends and their family hardships but in the life gives you tangerine it shows the struggles of a young couple who grew up together,the story is narrated by the female lead when she turns old,i also feel like the cinematography is similarr,some may like it and some may not,hope you enjoy

Almost the same time period in China. Although this is not about the canal life, it's still has that community theme. It's similar to Northward in many respect especially because its about family, neighbours, friendship & love. Their struggles in the fast developing challenges of China at the timdle.

The dramas Love Endures and Northward have similarities about friendship from childhood to adulthood. One friend becomes a key figure in their friendship, Ma Siyi (Northward) and Yi Fei (Love Endures). The characters are similar and their family relationships are close. Ma Siyi and Yi Fei who live with their grandmother. The closeness of friendship in Hangtian City (Love Endures) and Hua Street (Northward) and romance of Main Leads

Ensembles.
First half focuses on the leads in their teen years.
Second half focuses on them further into their adult lives.
In the first half, the male lead likes the female lead's best friend. In the second half, he comes to realize his feelings/fall for the female lead.
Male lead's best friend also has feelings for female lead.
The second female lead disappears at the end of the first half.