Chaodongwu: a Century-old Trace of a Village
by Zheng Jiali
About This Novel
Archaeologist Zheng Jiali turned his exploration of history to the source of his own bloodline - the Chaodongwu Natural Village in Chumen, Yuhuan. He affectionately salvaged the fragments of the village's centuries-old changes, and constructed a life record with both warmth and thickness at the intersection of personal memory and collective narrative. The book's detailed description of material relics such as old houses, homesteads, rice fields, and salt fields, as well as its precise restoration of historical details such as village life and livelihood, retain the vivid texture of folk memory and give individual destiny a sense of historical depth. The ties of blood and the secrets of growth are condensed into a thrilling "spiritual archeology", which not only shows the century-old strata of the village, but also allows the family affection, nostalgia and the pain of the times that have been buried in the land to breathe again.
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