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More than 90 years ago, a widow gave birth to a posthumous daughter late at night during the Hungry Ghost Festival, and she named her Zhongyuan. Later, in order to survive, her mother sold Zhongyuan to a businessman. I originally thought that Zhongyuan would have a good life, but I didn't expect that the sudden death of his adoptive father would change his destiny again. In order to support his adoptive mother and himself, Zhongyuan worked in a factory and later worked in a national woolen mill. After being matched by a master in a wool spinning factory, she married the cadre Zhao Yiren. After marriage, Zhongyuan gave birth to four children. In the process of raising his children, he experienced difficult moments one after another and witnessed the vicissitudes of the country. Then, the children get married, give birth to grandchildren, and the grandchildren grow up and give birth to great-grandchildren. Five generations of people all appeared on the stage, drifting up and down in the torrent of the times, gathering and separating. The protagonist Zhong Yuan is the most ordinary Chinese citizen. In the end, with her tenacity, she overcame many fateful mountains and seas, and grew from an orphan girl to the head of a family. The timeline of the novel spans nearly 100 years and depicts the ordinary and ordinary lives of Chinese people. The novel focuses on women, telling the transition, evolution and self-growth from women in the old era to women in the new era. It depicts group portraits of women in different eras and reflects the changes of the times with individual destiny. The novel also deeply reveals women's pain, tenacity, introspection and redemption. The novel is written using a cross-narrative technique of two lines, one set 90 years ago and the other set in modern times, and the story begins with the fifth generation exploring family secrets as an inducement.