Hua Taiping Family Biography
by Zhu Xining
About This Novel
"I am a little willing to leave the lives of contemporary people in detail, so that future generations can know how their ancestors lived on this land." "Hua Taiping Family Biography" is the posthumous novel of Taiwanese writer Zhu Xining, and it is also the most important work in his creative career. The book was originally planned to be three million words. The author devoted his life's work, revised the manuscript seven times, and started writing eight times. After completing 550,000 words, he died due to illness, leaving it as an unfinished symphonic epic. The book is divided into thirty-five chapters. The story begins in the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1900). It is a harkening back to a prosperous "peaceful" era that was not peaceful. It takes the century-old family history of the Hua family as the main axis and details the various changes in the countryside of Shandong Province when the new and old, Chinese and Western eras collided. Returning to the origin of modernization, where family history and national history are intertwined, personal destiny, loss of love, and the turmoil of the times, "Hua Taiping Family Biography" is an unfinished book of the century, and an epic symphony of classics and modernity. The author's language is highly sophisticated and smooth, and his narration is meticulous. The stories of the four seasons, folk customs and etiquette, details of the common people, and dialects are like a long scroll of the hometown slowly unfolding in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, which is full of local color and folk customs. Just like a picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", as the scroll slowly unfolds, scenes of full and interesting scenes of common people flow between the lines. Attached are Zhu Xining's precious manuscripts and photos, as well as special introductions by Liu Musa, Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin.
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