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This book tells the story of a group of Chinese intellectuals who have devoted themselves to the protection and research of Dunhuang for more than a century. It truly and comprehensively reproduces the outstanding qualities of these Chinese intellectuals who have the courage to sacrifice and undertake for the cause of national culture.

This novel tells the story of a group of writers, poets, and artists, creating a series of vivid characters such as Hu Ran, Ye Feng, Xu Chen, Shen Ping, and Xiaoxia. The narrative language is mature and unique, showing a gentle sense of humor. It is easy to read, but makes people fall into deep thinking after laughing or sighing.

The novel spans from around 1949 to the middle and late stages of the Cultural Revolution. It mainly describes how Qiao Nu endured hardships and endured natural and man-made disasters, struggles, and bullying in that special period of time when class struggle was the keystone. She helped her children become adults. Her hardships, humiliation, kindness and hard work, her perseverance and stubborn desire to survive, her struggling and twisted sexual desire, and her three brilliant or bitter romances are all lamentable. This is the history of a woman and a history of motherhood in a special period.