Lǎo Shě de 《 Sìshì-tóngtáng 》 xiě de shì Běipíng lúnxiàn shíqī de shēnghuó.
Lao She's Four Generations Under One Roof is about life in Beiping under Japanese occupation.
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culture
Four generations in one household is a classic image of a blessed, long-lived family: it means the eldest has lived to see a 重孙, a great-grandchild. When a fifth generation arrives, people say 五世同堂.
history
老舍 wrote the novel 《四世同堂》 in the 1940s. It follows the Qi family, four generations sharing one courtyard in a Beijing hutong, through the eight years of Japanese occupation.
