Bare Ground
by Ge Level
About This Novel
"The Naked Land" is the first novel by female writer Ge Shuiping. It tells the history of immigration in Baodian Town, Shanxi Province and the rise and fall of the Gai family during the turbulent historical period from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China to the "Land Reform". The work shows the vicissitudes of the Taihang Mountains in the decades before liberation through the rise and fall of a family and the fate of a woman. The novel focuses on the difficulties of human existence, farmers and the land, and delicately displays the painful process of people suffering in the cocoon of life and the blooming beauty of human nature, expressing the understanding of the connotation of life from one side. At the same time, human nature is portrayed and explored at multiple levels and angles. "Naked Land" spans a large time span, telling the history of immigration in Baodian Town, Shanxi Province and the rise and fall of the Gai family during this turbulent historical period from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China to the land reform. Nie Guangqing, a Shandong native, had his family broken up and fled to Shanxi due to a natural disaster. He picked up a wife and daughter along the way and settled in Hewa Valley. Gai Yunchang, a wealthy man from Baodian Town, married four wives and only got a stupid son. No one inherited his family fortune, and his family life could not be continued. His lifelong wish was for a woman to give him a son with a hammer. He fell in love with Nvnu and signed a wife-pawning contract with Nie Guangqing, and Nie Guangqing took her son to be a needle mother at Gai's house. The encounter between Gai Yunchang and the woman led to a marriage. He saw the gestation of life and the meaning of work. However, the land gave people nutrients, but people ravaged it in all kinds of ways: in the end, the land could only be exposed and the days passed.
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