Four Generations under One Roof is divided into three parts: Puzzling, Stealing Life, and Famine, with nearly a million words, it is the longest one of Lao She''s works, and it is also the work takes the longest writing time, the most energy-consuming, and the most difficult completion process. The work takes the occupied area of Peking during the Anti-Japanese War as the background, and takes the life of the four generations of the Qi family as the main line. It vividly depicts the humiliating, tortured and miserable lives of all classes and people of all colors represented by the residents of Xiaoyangquan Hutong, and finally gradually awakened and resisted. It praised their precious national integrity and the Chinese nation''s unyielding will to fight and the determination to resist the Japanese War.
