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"Under the Red Flag" is the posthumous work of Lao She's unfinished autobiographical novel. The manuscript has eleven chapters and one hundred and sixty-four pages. On August 24, 1966, Lao She sank himself in Taiping Lake in Beijing, and this work and his life came to an abrupt end.

Lao She is a bannerman who belongs to the "Zhenghong Banner" of the "Eight Banners of Manchuria", which is also the origin of the title of the book. Lao She wrote from the birth of "I", which was the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the society was in turmoil and people's livelihood was in decline. Seeing the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the pampered and pampered disciples of the Eight Banners are also struggling... With the rise of the Boxers and the arrival of foreigners, the peaceful life of the Beijing people was broken, and each character was brought to life in Lao She's works: the honest father, the kind and upright Shopkeeper Wang, the mean aunt, the smart and capable second brother Fu Hai, the arrogant Niu Pastor...these people of the Qing Dynasty who lived in the turbulent historical torrent all went to different destinies...