This story recounts the histories and personal experiences of several families, including those of Ali, Hassan, Wang Chen, and Gong Huaizhou. Through the changes of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China, it paints a sweeping historical panorama and traces the origins of the Dongxiang, Salar, Mongol, Bonan, Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Tibetan peoples, while praising the Chinese Communist Party's ethnic policies and the unity of all peoples.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
