From the German occupation of Qingdao to the May Fourth Movement, from the war of resistance against war to the liberation of Qingdao, from going to the mountains and countryside to the reform and opening up... A silver dollar, a green cotton-padded jacket, a jar of sweet potato wine, six pieces of ocean, and a purple clay pot, string together the joys and sorrows of an ordinary Qingdao family spanning a century.
My great-uncle was a latent underground party member and he only taught my grandma five words before he died; my grandma used the silver dollars left by my uncle to buy a wedding dress, and that green cotton-padded jacket is now on the bottom of my wardrobe; the three grandpas broke into Guandong, cheated in casinos, and were kidnapped. They were kidnapped by bandits, and the last person became an officer of the Kuomintang and went to Taiwan; my father and mother went from the factory canteen to opening a restaurant. I smoked bamboo poles on the roof of my grandma's house, bought toys in Cangkou Square, copied homework for two years, and finally married the person who wrote the homework...
This is an oral history of a family and a record of the changes of a city. Here you can find the artillery fire and blood of history, as well as the sweet potato wine and clams of ordinary life. When you open this book, you will see that there is evidence of generations of people living hard.
