Northern Accent
by Mao Shouren
About This Novel
This is a work that is both rich in color and detailed in detail, telling the story of life in the Shanxi merchant compound. The author is nostalgic for the past glory of Shanxi merchants and indulges in the splendor of Shanxi merchant culture. He deliberately depicts several women with different personalities and vivid images, such as Sifu Jin Zhangzhaojue, who graduated from a church school and had an elegant temperament but committed herself to Shanxi merchants and hoped to show her ambitions in financial management and business; The second aunt Tai Fang Zhiyu is beautiful, clean, self-loving, and willful; the third aunt Taizu Cuiyu has no concern for worldly affairs and only deliberately carves three-inch golden lotus flowers to please her husband; and Wu Yin, a girl who moved from the Mongolian grasslands to Jin to find her father, has become a lotus flower among the women in the courtyard with her straightforward temperament. The fall of the Qing court heralded the end of the Shanxi business bank economy, and wars and wars completely destroyed the homes where women in the courtyard relied on for survival. When the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty defiled their bodies and minds, the weak women who were not willing to be humiliated completed their final song of life in the Bangzi tune filled with grief and anger.
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