During the Republic of China (1938-1948), Peiping (from the period of occupation to the eve of liberation) experienced three key stages: the Japanese invasion and fall, the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang. The society was in turmoil, the people's livelihood was in decline, and the people at the bottom were trapped between aggression and oppression. Struggling to survive in the cracks, through the ten-year fate of the rickshaw puller Azhan's family, we can get a glimpse of the lives of ordinary people at the bottom of society during the Republic of China. It explains that ordinary people are the source of the strength of a country and a nation, and they are the land that carries the continuous continuity of a nation.
