From 1978 to 2009, this was a turbulent 30 years of great changes in China. Through the family of Aunt Yao, it is not just the life of their family that is written, but the tenacious, magnificent, and heart-wrenching struggle that the Chinese have gone through in these 30 years. Chongqing in 1978. Aunt Yao, with a big belly, knelt at the factory gate with five children, big and small, to seek justice for her husband Uncle Yao who was fired from the factory for being drunk. Aunt Yao finally got the factory director to agree to their eldest son's request to take over Uncle Yao's job when he grew up, but she also gave birth to twins at the factory gate during this turmoil. Aunt Yao and Uncle Yao originally had five children. The first four children were named "prosperous and prosperous". Except for the second child Lin Rong, the eldest Lin Fan, the third Lin Chang and the fourth Lin Sheng were all boys, and the fifth Lin Jing was a silent and stubborn little girl. The family had too many children and it was already difficult to make ends meet. Now they had lost their biggest economic pillar, Uncle Yao, who had lost his ability to work due to alcohol poisoning. Aunt Yao had to stand up and carry the family. She couldn't afford to raise the twins she had just given birth to, so she had to give them away. However, on the way to give them away, one of the twins was lost. Aunt Yao endured the great sadness and took the remaining one back home. She was the sixth child of the Lin family. Aunt Yao started working with her five children and made her own bean paste to sell on the street. However, she had no money to buy raw materials and could not avoid the harassment of Lao Liu from the supply and marketing cooperative. She was also attacked and insulted by Aunt Wu who also sold bean paste on the street. Lin Jianshe, the educated youth who came back from the production team, used his fists to protect Aunt Yao's dignity, but attracted more rumors. The rumors said that Aunt Yao was Pan Jinlian, Lao Liu was Ximen Qing, Uncle Yao was Wu Dalang, and Lin Jianshe was Wu Song seduced by Aunt Yao. Uncle Yao failed to quit drinking several times and felt depressed. His conflict with Lin Jianshe became a joke on the street. Lin Jianshe smashed the glass of all the rumor-mongering people on the street in anger, and went to find Lao Liu to settle accounts, but the youngest aunt stopped Lin Jianshe's stick, because Lao Liu did have a favor to the Lin family. After Lin Jianshe came out of the detention center, he did not return to the Lin family, but went far away. Because of these rumors, the youngest aunt also made an enemy at home, the fifth child Lin Jing. Lin Jing hated the youngest aunt, and she hated the reputation her mother gave to their brothers and sisters. The youngest aunt used her various survival skills as a woman to tenaciously raise all six children. The eldest Lin Fan was 18 years old and should take over the youngest uncle's shift in the factory. However, Lin Fan only liked to study and wanted to go to college, but his family could not allow it, forcing Lin Fan to burn the college admission letter. The second child Lin Rong was a vain girl who even stole her classmate's new clothes and was entangled by her classmate's brother. The third child Lin Chang and the fourth child Lin Sheng usually have the best relationship. They are a pair of naughty boys who can't stay idle for a moment, and all kinds of nonsense are in full swing. Lin Rong was harassed by a gangster, and the third and fourth children moved their eldest brother Lin Fan to save the situation, but Lin Fan missed and beat the man to death. Aunt Yao decided that Lin Fan would be the family's economic pillar and hope, and he could not go to jail, so she had to draw lots among the other children, and whoever drew the lot would go to take the blame for the eldest brother. The result of the draw was that the fourth child Lin Sheng drew the lot, but he was afraid and secretly changed the lot to Lin Chang, who went to jail, and from then on, the lives of these two people changed. After that, Aunt Yao's worries never stopped. The second child Lin Rong caused a female gangster incident. She fell in love with a young painter Ding Song. When Ding Song was drawing a nude sketch for her, she was discovered and her nude was posted on the bulletin board. In order to protect Ding Song, Lin Rong admitted that she forced Ding Song to do it, but the pressure of society made Lin Rong a little mentally ill. In the next few years, he dared not step out of the house, but just knitted at home every day with cats as company. Lin Sheng stole spare parts from the factory and sold them to his family to make money. After being discovered by Aunt Yao, she was caught red-handed when she returned the spare parts to the factory for Lin Sheng. Lin Fan, who was on duty, caught Aunt Yao herself. This also led to Lin Fan being fired from the factory. Lin Jing fell in love with the piano and was extremely talented in music. Aunt Yao bought Lin Jing an electronic keyboard cruelly, but mistakenly suspected that Lin Jing stole money from home to buy a piano, which once again insulted Lin Jing. Lin Jing smashed the electronic keyboard and became the person who hated Aunt Yao the most. Even Uncle Yao, after being sent to the hospital for emergency treatment due to alcohol poisoning again, met his former lover Feng Yuting, and divorced Aunt Yao at the instigation of his mother, wanting to live with Feng Yuting and live like a man again. But Feng Yuting cheated all his money, and Uncle Yao knew that he still couldn't leave Aunt Yao. Lin Jianshe also came back again, and this time he returned home in glory, because Lin Jianshe had become the director of a factory. Lin Jianshe wanted to take revenge on Lao Liu and Aunt Wu, and wanted to take Aunt Yao's family away from Chongqing to live in his factory. But Aunt Yao refused in the end. She couldn't let go of Lin Chang who was in prison, and she also hoped that the missing Lao Qi would come back one day. More importantly, she couldn't leave here, the hometown where she grew up. Lin Jianshe had no choice but to leave sadly.