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When he was sixty years old, our era had already begun to travel between the moon and the earth. His daughter got married and the wedding was held on the moon. He and his wife Xiaoyu both have mottled white hair on their heads. Life does not stop getting older because of the progress of the times. In order to reward her artistic achievements, the country held a grand art exhibition for Xiaoyu in an official manner on our country's lunar base on her birthday. There was an old man with white hair and a Japanese passport who bought fifty of her paintings at once. After careful identification, he and his wife finally recognized him as Mr. Ojiang. At this time, Dajiang had already become a world-renowned painter and collector.

The novel narrates that after the Gengzi Rebellion, Tan Yongqing, the son of Tan Zongjun, who was selected to pay tribute, returned to Beijing and moved from Xisi Yangrou Hutong to Mishi Hutong. He and his third concubine Zhao Lizifeng indulged in glutinous rice. Based on the extremely delicious taste of Tan's "Tan Family Cuisine" and Tan's imperial status, they gathered the capital's bureaucrats for dinner, which made Beijing famous. It became fashionable for chefs to entertain guests in Tan's house, and private restaurants in China's catering industry started from this. "Tan's Cuisine" adheres to the rules of "fine selection of ingredients, careful cutting of ingredients, careful cooking, sufficient cooking, and pure taste" for decades. In the 1930s, it became even more famous. Celebrities and dignitaries in the political, military, business and cultural circles at that time regarded it as a favor to entertain guests with "Tan's Cuisine". People outside the capital should also try their best to taste "Tan's cuisine". After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Tan family gradually declined. However, in terms of food, Tan Zongjun's son was unwilling to restrain himself a little. He was just sitting on a mountain of food. He could no longer sustain it in the future, so he secretly hosted family banquets. However, he was unwilling to put up a "restaurant" sign for the sake of face. However, the business was booming day by day. The novel is rich in historical materials, fluent in writing, and delicate in characterization, and vividly depicts the social life of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.