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This collection of prose essays records the author's thoughts and understandings over decades of life experience, career and emotional life. The author presents a rich and colorful spiritual world and mental journey in the book, vividly expresses the unremitting pursuit of life ideals, and demonstrates a generation of Chinese people's persistence in the "truth, goodness and beauty" of life. It has a strong flavor of the times and typical significance. The text of the work is fresh and simple, the ideological content is healthy and uplifting, and it actively spreads positive energy. It is an original masterpiece full of idealistic feelings and inspirational spirit.

Through complex conflicts and entanglements, the book centers on the father and son Zhang Youcai and Zhang Fugui, and depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time; labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intricately intertwined, profoundly showing the difficult and tortuous paths that ordinary people have traveled in the historical process of the great era.