After the decline of Shanxi merchants during the Republic of China, some wealthy people took their wealth overseas, but more small businessmen were scattered in various villages in the Shanxi land. The land of China later experienced drastic historical changes, and the identities of these people also changed from country gentry, to landlords and rich peasants, to ordinary farmers...
In this rapid and violent change, how did their descendants live and what kind of survival philosophy they formed...
This article takes Ji Bin as the protagonist, as a descendant of these businessmen, and tells how the four generations from the master, grandfather, father to him struggled, survived and developed in the social changes...
Purpose: Record family growth history and accumulate life wisdom