After twenty years of deliberation and preparation, the author has written this novel about the "Cultural Revolution".Vertically, the work summarizes all the major historical events and historical processes of the "Cultural Revolution"; horizontally, it describes various social scenes and many people from all walks of life from the upper class to the lower class, from the capital to the countryside, and reveals the history of that period. All kinds of personality and psychology.Through the ups and downs of the fate development of many characters, life and death and emotional entanglements, it reflects the suffering experienced by the Chinese nation in the ten years of catastrophe.

This should be the first panoramic novel describing the whole process of the "Cultural Revolution"; it is also a novel that deeply reflects and reviews the "Red Guard Movement"; Youth" is a novel with a unique interpretation.