During the Cultural Revolution, almost everyone from the state president, "vice commander in chief", "national founding fathers", marshal, ministers of the State Council, leaders of the provincial Party Committees, to the common people, had their bitter experiences. Some of the stories are well-known, some of them have brief introduced in each volume of this series. There are also many "political stars" who are "as transient as fleeting clouds", many scholars and writers who are knowledgeable about the past and now and authors with many works to his credit, many scientists who have made great achievements in scientific research, many artists who are both virtuous and artistic, and even much more common people who are concerned about the country and the people, some of them have suffered great ups and downs, some have been cruelly persecuted by "unnecessary" charges, and many have lost their lives miserably. This book used the photos, newspapers, posters and other materials of those years, reappear some rarely known stories of "great important persons" or "little people", such as , "crazy man of the new era" Chen Lining, Li Hongshan and so on Red Guards who fought against Lin Biao and the Central Cultural Revolution, Hao Liang and Liu Qingtang both were the Ministers of Ministry of Culture, Ding Ling the famous female writer and rightist, Jin Jingmai and Mu Xin and so on the leaders of the Central Cultural Revolution, "Wise Leader" Hua Guofeng, Li Jiulian, a female middle school student in Ganzhou of Jiangxi Province who opposed the atrocities of the Cultural Revolution, and so on people's ups and downs and encounters in the Cultural Revolution.