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This has been the fifty years of the most dramatic changes in China's modern times. The protagonist grew up from an ignorant rural boy in the late Qing Dynasty to a middle-aged man in the vicissitudes of the Republic of China after experiencing the collapse of dynasties and troubled times. I have personally experienced all the major changes of the times for half my life, and the current situation has changed again and again, but the suffering of the people at the bottom has never really ended. Niu San struggled diligently and rose up several times throughout his life. Every time his life initially improved, he was completely swept away by the larger tide of the times, explaining the powerlessness of personal destiny in the torrent of the times.