"On the 81st of the Jiangyin War, one hundred thousand people died with one heart and one mind." This is not only a story of military resistance, but also a tragic song of cultural dignity. When the order of the old dynasty collapsed, a group of small people spontaneously took up the moral banner of Chinese civilization. Their choices defined what "human" dignity is. This book unfolds from the perspective of an ordinary person in Jiangyin City in the late Ming Dynasty, telling the story of Jiangyin's eighty-one days.