The Sound of Tide in the Keyhole
About This Novel
(Won the Gold Medal in the National Adult Category of the 20th Bing Xin Literature Award) Ah Yue, a girl from Hui'an, Quanzhou, found a bronze key engraved with "Kaiyuan" in her father's stone carving toolbox after his death. This key opened up a past that had been dusty for thirty years: his father was a puppeteer of the Chongwu Troupe, and had a deep friendship with Master Li, a Taiwanese puppeteer across the Taiwan Strait. However, due to a cross-strait accident, an agreed-upon cross-strait cooperation came to nothing. A blue theater box containing the tokens of the cross-strait troupes was locked by numerous mechanisms. The journey of searching for the secret of the key and the play box is also Ah Yue's journey of understanding her parents' pain and silence. An old crescent-shaped scar on the mother's wrist hides an unspeakable secret. The faded playbills, gongchi music scores, lychee stains, and magnolia lanterns are like scattered puzzle pieces, pointing to a friendship and regret buried by time. Ah Yue relied on the notes left by her father and the "blind engraving" skills of Hui'an stone carvings to gradually unlock the complex locks corresponding to the "seven emotions". Finally, on the stage of the Confucian Temple on a rainy night during the Qingming Festival, Ah Yue used herself as a "keyhole" to connect the light and shadow of Quanzhou and Tainan. The dusty puppets awakened in the moonlight and played the unfinished movement of "Chen San Wuniang" across time and space. This is not only the inheritance and perfection of my father's artistic life, but also the affectionate echo of the common cultural blood of both sides of the Taiwan Strait through the barriers of time in the spirit of craftsmanship and reconciliation of family ties. The novel uses rich southern Fujian imagery, exquisite lock-and-key metaphors and magical realistic writing techniques to weave a moving story about search, memory, reconciliation and inheritance of cultural roots, showing extraordinary artistic appeal and profound humanistic care.
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I personally think this work is quite good both in terms of writing and plot. He describes the characters very carefully, each character is described very well, the actions are also very good, and the heart is well described. These are the most important factors in writing novels. But one disadvantage is that the number of words in a chapter is too long. Just keep it at 3,000 words, otherwise it will seem too tiring. And the update is a bit slow, not enough to watch at all.
Come on, author~(≧▽≦)/~
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This is the first time I read your book. I will briefly express my first impression after reading it. You can add some psychological narration about the characters. I think there can be less professional terms like the first chapter, because if we don't understand it, we can just call it nonsense.
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Can the author divide the previous chapters into paragraphs? I'm almost dying to see it!
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Official(7)Scraped 11d ago
Support the author, come on, author!
I personally think this work is quite good both in terms of writing and plot. He describes the characters very carefully, each character is described very well, the actions are also very good, and the heart is well described. These are the most important factors in writing novels. But one disadvantage is that the number of words in a chapter is too long. Just keep it at 3,000 words, otherwise it will seem too tiring. And the update is a bit slow, not enough to watch at all.
Come on, author~(≧▽≦)/~
The feeling of reading a book for the first time
This is the first time I read your book. I will briefly express my first impression after reading it. You can add some psychological narration about the characters. I think there can be less professional terms like the first chapter, because if we don't understand it, we can just call it nonsense.
OK OK
Give some great advice to the author
Can the author divide the previous chapters into paragraphs? I'm almost dying to see it!
OK OK
Solutions for not being able to read
First, clear the cache of QQ Reading. Second, delete the book from the shelf first and then add it. Third, if you find any wrong chapters, please tell me. Fourth, please join the book club group to communicate better.
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