The book is estimated to have 500,000 words, a total of 120 chapters, and is divided into four volumes. Taking the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the early Southern Song Dynasty (approximately 317-453 years) as the historical background, and taking the rise and fall of the four generations of the "Huanling Wei Family", a branch of the famous Wei family in Chen County, as the main line, it combines the clues of family politics, battlefield fighting, the love of children, businessmen in the market, and the strife of clans to lay out a long scroll of the fate of a large family in troubled times.
