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The story begins with a special interview with a well-known female writer in a small town in western Guangdong. It is divided into chapters and tells the struggles, ups and downs, loves, hates, joys and sorrows, and life legends of five generations of a peasant family. The time span of the novel is from 1920 to 2020, and the geographical span is from northwestern Hunan to southwestern Guangdong. The content covers the suffering and glory of China's rural areas during the Republic of China, the fate of individuals in special historical periods, the phoenix nirvana of farmers before and after reform and opening up, and the inspirational lives of a generation of rural youth across the century...