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This book reflects the real social conditions from the end of the Anti-Japanese War to the land reform period through the grievances and resentments of three generations of Shangtang and Hou people in a small village called Changdianfang in the Daba Mountains. The feud between the two surnames Tang and Hou started when Huguang occupied Sichuan. During the War of Liberation, many of Tang's descendants and relatives served as soldiers and officials. It happened that some of the Hou surnames were bandits. As a result, various and complicated sharp contradictions were intertwined in incidents such as arresting strong men, beating up enemies, setting up traps to seize land, and in the struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, land reform, and suppressing counterrevolutionaries. It shows the different human natures of beauty and ugliness, kindness and evil, as well as the fierce battle between revolution and reaction, justice and evil.

This book tells the author's hard-working but happy working life in Wanzhou, Chongqing, Tibet, Tianjin and other places through his working life spanning eight thousand miles from west to east. The works reflect the hardships of life and work of the lower-class workers, as well as their simplest spiritual life and most practical material pursuits. There are intricate intrigues and brotherly interpersonal care, which truly reflects today's social life. In particular, it vividly describes and introduces Tibet's exotic customs and magnificent rivers and mountains. The author confesses his life insights in the book, which is encouraging and full of optimistic attitude towards life.