河南中部三河镇的风铃寨，以制作瓷器而文明。故事由贺、叶、杨家而展开。贺家的大儿子贺青因为加入“五四运动”而惨遭人追杀，他逃到风铃寨却被发现后又逃去了湖北武汉，参加京汉铁路总工会，最后参加新四军，加入了共产党员，贺青的弟弟贺晨，在逃亡的路上成为了冷血无情的杀手，之后凭借日本人唱戏的绝佳时机，劈伤了日军军官，最后死于鬼子的乱枪之下。叶飞霞为了解决财产纠纷，放弃自己的个人感情，嫁给了三河镇富商的儿子邓明轩，并且接管了生意，她帮助共产党，成立船队，建立海上运输线，与日军展开激烈斗争，杨运来因为和贺，叶家一起抵制军阀家道中落，被逼后自杀身亡，他的女儿杨豫凤浪迹天涯，最后也是加入了中国共产党

Fengling Village in Sanhe Township in central Henan Province is famous for making porcelain. The story unfolds from He, Ye and Yang's family. The eldest son of the He family, He Qing, was hunted down for joining the May 4th Movement. He fled to Fenglingzhai but was discovered and then fled to Wuhan, Hubei, where he joined the Beijing-Han Railway Federation of Trade Unions, and finally joined the New Fourth Army and the Communist Party. He Chen, He Qing's younger brother, became a cold-blooded killer on the way to escape, and later, relying on the perfect opportunity for the Japanese to sing, he wounded a Japanese officer and finally died under the random guns of the devils. In order to resolve property disputes, Ye Feixia gave up her personal feelings, married Deng Mingxuan, the son of a wealthy businessman in Sanhe Town, and took over the business. She helped the Communist Party, set up a fleet, established sea transportation lines, and fought fiercely with the Japanese army. , the Ye family resisted the warlords together, and the family was in decline. After being forced to commit suicide, his daughter Yang Yufeng wandered all over the world, and finally joined the Communist Party of China