The great doctor Ma Boyong first reads the Dawn chapter. "The Great Doctor" tells the story of the Russo-Japanese War (the 1904-1905 war between Japan and Russia over the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China) that broke out on February 8, 1904. On March 10 of the same year, Shen Dunhe and other gentry established the Shanghai International Red Cross Society to rescue the victims of the Russo-Japanese War in Northeast China. In June of the same year, the Qing government signed the First Geneva Convention, and China officially became a signatory to the Geneva Convention. This is where the story of this book begins. The Daybreak chapter ends in November 1911. The sunrise chapter starts from July 1912 to August 1950. The time span is larger than that of the dawn chapter.