Synopsis

In 1880 during the 6th year of the Guangxu period of the Qing dynasty, Bai Jingqi (Chen Baoguo) is born into the Baicao Hall, a prominent merchant family in Beijing. The first season chronicles the lives of Bai Jingqi's predecessors in the late Qing and early Republic of China before focusing on Bai Jingqi when he becomes the new family patriarch. The subsequent season details his later life after the second Sino-Japanese War through to the establishment of the People's Republic of China.