The Wind Blows and the Water Moves Away
by Cao Baoming
About This Novel
Spring has arrived on the 22nd day of the third month of the lunar calendar, but the Changbai Mountains are still silent, deathly still, without a breath of wind. This kind of favorable weather conditions makes the mountain people in the Manjiang area tremble... Manjiang is the hinterland of Changbai Mountain and the headwaters of the Songhua River. It is the confluence of Jinjiang River and Manjiang River. It is also an important river mouth near the southern slope of Laobai Mountain. To be precise, it is an important waterway on the western slope. The volcanic eruption more than a thousand years ago destroyed the virgin forest in this area. Today, people can still see the clear cross-sections of trees that have turned into charcoal layer by layer on the exposed hillside soil. The thickness of the "charcoal rings" of each tree tells today's people everything that passed long ago. However, the forests that have grown back over thousands of years have covered the mountains lushly.
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