Mountains and Rivers in Dust

From around 1880 to 1949 in the late Qing Dynasty, great social changes affected the fate of three generations of a family in the mountainous areas of southern Hunan. 2. The first generation: The core character, Zhuang Xiaolou, lost his father when he was one year old and married off to a poor mountain village with his mother when he was two years old. His stepfather treated him badly. He was almost choked to death by his parents because he stole milk from his half-brother. Fortunately, he survived. He returned to his birthplace at the age of 10, worked hard and fought evil, slowly accumulated land, gradually became a big landowner, and finally became a powerful man. 3. The second generation: The core figure, Zhuang Xiyu, is Zhuang Xiaolou's second son and his proudest son. He was born in 1903. He was studious, intelligent and ambitious since he was a child. He entered the sixth phase of Huangpu Military Academy in 1926 and later became a regimental commander. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was killed by a Japanese grenade on his way back to his hometown to visit relatives. He died in 1944. Zhuang Xiaolou was so angry that he vomited blood. 4. The third generation: The core figure, Zhuang Jihan, was born in 1921. He was the eldest son of Zhuang Xiaolou's first son. He was eager to learn since childhood, worked hard, and had great ambitions. He later entered the 18th class of Huangpu Military Academy and became the secretary of the principal's office after graduation. After Zhuang Xiyu passed away in 1944, he was worried about the fate of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Because his wife had already given birth to a child for him at home, he chose to return to his hometown to become a farmer, changed his name, and finally lived an ordinary life. Through the fate of three generations and the background of the great tide of the times, it highlights the ups and downs and struggles of those generations. They all struggled, but they all became the dust of history.