Taking the ups and downs of a family in Yunnan that spanned thousands of years as the main line, it connects the long history of Yunnan from ancient civilization to the new era, showing the integration and symbiosis of multi-ethnic groups on the Hengduan Mountains and the Red Earth Plateau, the dialogue of civilizations between the frontier and the Central Plains, the collision and transformation of tradition and modernity, and finally settling on the historical inevitability of the "Chinese national community" and the contemporary picture of "there is a life called Yunnan".