On New Year's Eve in 1927, Chen Huaishi, a young man from a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, heard about "revolution" for the first time. In the more than ninety years since then, he has experienced war, separation, construction, turmoil and rebirth. His father starved to death during the Anti-Japanese War, his younger brother went to Taiwan and never came back, his wife supported a family with a bowl of sweet potatoes, his children went into business during the reform and opening up, and his grandchildren rushed back from abroad to rescue during the Wenchuan earthquake.
This is the story of four generations of the Chen family and a microcosm of China's century-old history.
Purpose: Seeing the big from the small, writing the destiny and feelings of family and country of ordinary Chinese people over the past century