
Windless Tree (work by Li Rui)
by Li Rui
About This Novel
The Sixth Patriarch Huineng pointed to the flag fluttering in the wind at Faxing Temple and explained the world to the monks: "It is not the wind that moves, nor the flags that move, but the hearts of benevolent people." When Gua Laowu summed up the world at the end of his life, he only used two words. These two words were actually just a sound made by him. The small stool he had been sitting on for many years made a slight sound when it fell down - "click". "The original 'prototype' of "The Windless Tree" was a short story "Funeral" in the "Thick Soil" series. This short story only has more than 4,000 words, from 4,000 words to 110,000 words. This is not only a quantitative change, but more importantly, a qualitative change, which is a different perspective and expression. A re-telling of the story will give you a completely different world." "The carnage of class struggle before our eyes, The wars and massacres in the past, poverty, labor, death, human numbness, alienation, inability to communicate, the mutual deprivation between man and nature, the entanglement of good and evil, etc., Etc., All these constituted the miserable situation that the dwarves of Dwarf Ping could not escape. "In the 1970s, Dwarf Ping under the high loess slopes was barren and isolated from the world, and the villagers had their own rules and stories. Nuan Yu, a woman who fled to Dwarenping due to hunger, became the fantasy of all the single men in Dwarenping; director Liu Changsheng came to the village to start work and would stay in Nuanyu's kiln every time; Ku Gen'er, a martyr orphan, honed his extraordinary perseverance in his faith and tried to survive It took one person twenty-four years to manage all the ditches in Dwarenping; the production captain Cao Tianzhu struggled to balance the folk customs and political requirements; the uncle Cao Yongfu was criticized and tortured because he was a rich farmer, and finally hanged himself... The people of Dwarenping are naturally crooked. They have lived a miserable life, being oppressed and at the same time doing evil to the more vulnerable people. "This is a story about me. This is a story about Chinese people. Finally, and most importantly, this is a story about people."
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