
The Roaring Yellow River (part 1): Asking the Mountain
by Fan Ruoding
About This Novel
"Asking the Mountain", the first part of the novel "The Roaring Yellow River", shows a period of Chinese history from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, and the hardships and twists and turns a man from the Central Plains endured in this context. The author uses delicate and dense literary language to describe the scenery of the four seasons, farming and harvest, weddings and funerals, and folk customs in western Henan. The values of those ancient life orders are still conveyed even in hunger and turmoil, which makes this novel have cognitive and aesthetic values about the lives of our ancestors. The combing of the large historical context enables readers to feel the regularity, rationality and trend of change in the fate of these characters. This is also the unique value of this novel.
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