A small town called Guanshui is surrounded by rivers and bays, and its looms have been roaring for hundreds of years. Zhou Yicheng was born in a scholarly family, and watched as the brushes in his father's hands were forced into corners by steam and gunfire. He traveled and returned, founded a school, and ran a newspaper, rising and falling repeatedly in the tidal waves of the times. From a weaver girl to a trade union leader, Lin Yueqin spent many years running around factories and streets, using rags and stitches to stitch together the torn lives of women. He Weiming came from a humble background and joined the military business due to his courage. He was repeatedly torn between power and making a living. It was not until the war approached that he understood what he couldn't lose. Journalist Chen Qiaosheng, soldier Zhou Yimin, old scholar Zhou Chengdao... These people were attracted to each other and kept missing each other, until the smoke of 1937 entangled their personal destiny with the times. The river flows eastward silently, but people's voices echo on the water for a long time. This book describes the changes of more than thirty years in ten chapters. Through the encounters and choices of a group of ordinary people, it presents social changes, cultural conflicts and the subtle creases of human hearts.
