
The Eternal Flow of the Yellow River
by Gao Linzhao
About This Novel
The novel is based on the Kang Wanwan family on the banks of Heluo River. It reflects how several generations of the Zheng family followed the trend for nearly a hundred years from 1840 to the 1920s, accumulating wealth and becoming the richest people in the Central Plains. Later, with the turmoil of the times, the family business plummeted, and the younger generation participated in the revolution to seek new life, and the historical process of ups and downs of destiny. The novel uses the fate of characters and the rise and fall of families as bright lines, and social changes and national peril as dark lines. It expresses deep feelings about family and country and human compassion. It also focuses on the natural features and cultural landscapes on the banks of the Yellow River, and has a strong cultural flavor of the Yellow River. The author internalizes his understanding and interpretation of traditional Chinese culture into the words and deeds of the characters, such as Confucianism's self-cultivation and family governance, self-restraint and restoration of rituals, internal sainthood and external kingship, as well as ways to conduct oneself in the world, business strategies, etc., Which demonstrates the profoundness and inner light of traditional Chinese culture.
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