The story took place during the fall of Peiping in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time. Lao Qi in the hutong of Beiping sheepfold yearns for the fulfillment of his 80th birthday. However, the sudden intrusion of the Japanese made the seemingly harmonious hutong stormy.

Young master Qian Jia died with the Japanese. In order to gain the trust of the Japanese, Guan Jia denounced Qian Jia. Qian was forced to go to prison, and Mr. Qian and Qian Furen died. With the help of his eldest brother, Qi Ruiquan fled the city and started the war of resistance. With the help of selling their daughters' sex, the Crown family finally got the position of director of the Prostitute Research Institute.

With the help of his wife, Ruifeng entered the Education Bureau as the section chief, and despite the opposition of Ruixuan, he served the Japanese in disguise. On the one hand, the old man Qian, who was tortured unconscious by the enemy, was released from prison and gradually regained his sanity with the help of his neighbors in Hutong, and his daughter-in-law Qian also gave birth to a son. After experiencing the blow of family destruction, the old man Qian gradually recognized the face of the Japanese and started the war of resistance in Peiping alone.

The second "drag out an ignoble existence"

Under the constant resistance of the Japanese, Beiping people gradually began to lack coal and food, and everyone in the hutong except Guan Jia became poorer and poorer. The Japanese also began to control the school's thoughts. Ruixuan was dissatisfied and resigned from school to work in the British Embassy.

Due to the changes in Japan's internal forces, Ruifeng was pushed down by a new wave of forces as the section chief, and Lan Dongyang became a cadre of Xinmin Society. With a genial smile, Fat Agatha remarried to Lan Dongyang, and Ruifeng recovered and returned to No.5 Hospital. Ruixuan's uncooperative attitude made the Japanese seize the eldest grandson of the Qi family.

Mei Yun quickly asked the trustee to find Mr Fukuyama and ask him for help. Finally, with the help of Fukuyama, Ruixuan survived and was rescued from prison. The Japanese People's Open Theater Conference was bombed by the old man Qian, in which Xiaowen and his wife were killed by the Japanese army and You Tongfang died heroically. Because of all the informers, Da Chibao was imprisoned, Guan's family was sealed, Guan disappeared, and Xiao He lived on the streets. ?

The Third Famine

The Japanese people's crazy war made the Japanese start to be economically nervous, and Peiping began to live without coal and food. The Qi family also began to lack food, and there was no coal fire to keep warm in winter.

Guan Xiaohe and Rui Feng, who lost power and influence, wandered in the street and were captured by Japanese spies. Da Chibao was tortured to death in prison. Gaudi wanted to go out of the city to resist Japan, but he was intercepted by his spy sister on the way. Finally, he returned to Peiping and started the underground war of resistance under the guidance of the old man Qian. In order to save food, the Japanese began to stipulate the share of food, and each person received a fixed amount of mixed soil Republic.

Under the destruction of this food, Beiping people began to spread infectious diseases. The Japanese caught the patients in the street and buried them alive. Sun Qi and Guan Xiaohe, who have just been released, were buried alive. Ruiquan was ordered to go back to Beiping to do underground work. After Ruiquan returned to Beiping, he met the spy Zhao Di. Rui Quan killed his ex-girlfriend after a fight.

Because of the destruction of the Republic, the chicken died in her mother's arms. In the cry of Mei Yun, people learned of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory and celebrated happily.

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Qian yinmo

58-year-old, a scholar, loves drinking, painting and growing flowers. After the Japanese invasion, he changed his character and began to resist the invaders. The eldest son Qian Mengshi was forced to death by the Japanese; The eldest daughter-in-law, of unknown age, has a son with Meng Yu; The second son, Qian, was a car driver and died with the Japanese in his car.

Li Shifu

Honest, kind and helpful; The fourth mother, Li Shifu's wife, is kind and helpful. Li Shifu's other son.

Guanxiaohe

More than 50 years old, no occupation, no principle of right and wrong, only worship powerful people, and then buried alive by the Japanese; Big red envelope, crown's wife, loves playing cards; Guan's second wife, You Tongfang, sang drums before marriage and was the first person to wake up in Guan's family. Guan's eldest daughter Guan, the second awakened person in Guan's family; Guan, beautiful but lazy, finally became a spy and was killed by Ruiquan. ?

Shaffer Sun Qi and his wife

Sun Qi is straightforward and upright, and loves to argue with Xiao Cui and Chang Shun about the merits, so he was buried alive by the Japanese. Xiao Cui and his wife, Xiao Cui, were foreign rickshaw pullers, upright and upright, and were later killed by the Japanese inexplicably; Xiao Cui, the loyal minister's wife, was forced to remarry Cheng Changshun after her husband died. Widow Ma and her grandson Cheng Changshun make money by playing recordings. Later, in order to save Mrs Cui, they married her and gave birth to a son with her. ?

Qi laoren

Nearly 80 years old, the oldest representative in the whole hutong, with four generations living under one roof; Son Qi Tianyou, in his fifties, was the shopkeeper of a cloth shop, and later committed suicide by throwing himself into the river because of the humiliation of the Japanese. Daughter-in-law, sick in bed all the year round; Sun Tzu Qi Ruixuan, middle school English teacher; Mei Yun, the eldest grandson's wife, is 28 years old and is in charge of housework.

Qi Ruifeng, the second grandson, was an ordinary servant in middle school and later became the director of the Education Bureau. Forced by the situation, he was expelled as an unemployed person and finally killed by the Japanese. Agatha, the wife of the second grandson (later remarried to Lan Dongyang), finally became a prostitute in Tianjin and died miserably. The third grandson, Qi Ruiquan, was a student (later fled Beiping City to join the underground party).

Extended data:

"Four generations under one roof" describes the profound disaster of our nation, and reveals the profound pain of national destruction and the artistic style of "blood and tears can drop from the pen". Here, the expression of social thoughts in the years of suffering is true, and the ideological theme of self-destruction is more prominent because of the standard color and lyrical atmosphere of the novel.

The novel takes War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression as the background, and makes a critical reflection on the national inferiority caused by family culture in China traditional culture. This rational reflection is accompanied by the author's emotional attachment to family ethics.

"Four generations under one roof" takes an ordinary small sheepfold alley in Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War as the specific environment in which the story takes place, and reflects the confused, miserable social mentality of Peiping citizens during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War with the humiliating and tragic experiences of many small people in several families, and reproduces their slow, painful and difficult awakening process when their country is ruined and their family dies.

This work focuses on China's family culture, and examines and criticizes its negative factors rationally. Four generations living under one roof is a traditional family ideal of China people, a family model that people have always advocated, and the only capital that Qi old people can boast about to others.

He did everything possible to keep his family intact and enjoy the family happiness that others did not have. Therefore, he was dissatisfied with Qi Ruixuan's release of the third child without his permission, disapproved of Ruixuan's expulsion of Ruifeng on the Mid-Autumn Festival, expressed deep anger at his son's painful suicide because of being insulted by the Japanese, and was indignant that his granddaughter's young life was taken away by hunger.

When he had had enough, he finally stood up and shouted angrily to the Japanese. However, as soon as War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression finished, he soon forgot his sufferings.

To his great-grandson's novel: "What does it matter as long as we can live and not fight?" Even if I die, you have to live to be my age and be your old sect. " The spiritual burden of family culture is passed down from generation to generation.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-four generations under one roof