Duanyang Tribulation

A historical novel spanning more than thirty years, set in Houhai, Peking, it tells the story of three generations of grievances between the Yan and Shen families from the late Qing Dynasty to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, as well as the ups and downs of six teenagers from ignorance to awakening. During the Dragon Boat Festival in 1915, the dragon-patterned jade pendant from the Yan family's town house mysteriously disappeared, and an old lock with a broken key was discovered in the Shen family's study. Six children including Yan Minglou, Shen Ruotong, and He Tiezhu joined forces for the first time under the Yinding Bridge to piece together the timeline of the Dragon Boat Festival Eve, but they came across a secret that had been buried for twenty years... In the next thirty years, the times surged. Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, the Northern Expedition, the September 18th Incident, the fall of Peking... The fate of the six people was torn apart by the torrent of history: the Yan family gradually declined, Yan Huaijin demolished the walls to guard the house, Yanming Tower used his pen as a blade; the Shen family took advantage of the chaos to rise , Shen Wanzhong defected to the Japanese invaders, Shen Ruotong ran away in anger; He Tiezhu became a workers' leader from the son of a coachman; Su Xiaoman guarded the Gua stall to deliver the news; Shen Ruotang broke away from the feudal shackles and became a female normal college student and devoted herself to saving the nation. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the five people reunited at Yinding Bridge on the Dragon Boat Festival in 1946. Shen Chongli handed over the truth before his death. However, when the perpetrators are long dead and the perpetrators are at large, what will happen if they know the truth? This work interweaves family epics with national trauma through the joys and sorrows of small people in a great era. It questions conscience and inheritance in the circulation of jade pendants, and witnesses the ups and downs of an era in the gatherings and departures at Yinding Bridge.