In the 1940s, Yang Xianpu, a young railway worker from the countryside, married Zhang Heling, the adopted daughter of a bean juice house in Jinan City, and their fifty-year precarious family life began. The two Xian servants have seven children together. The whole family has experienced countless natural and man-made disasters and finally made it to where it is today. The eldest daughter Yang Qi once cut off contact with the family, the second daughter Yang Cheng went to Qinghai to seek survival, the eldest son Yang Chao failed in several marriages, the second son Yang Jiu died unexpectedly, and the younger son Yang Gan insisted on being single... The whole novel is nearly 900,000 words long, with a complete story and a magnificent structure. There are many characters, but the main ones have distinct and unforgettable personalities. Because of the creative prototype, the novel is close to life, vivid, twists and turns, and fascinating. The novel has a strong local flavor and distinctive characteristics of the times, with a time span of sixty years, and half of it is urban and rural life.
