River Soul
by Mei Yu
About This Novel
This is a novel with a clever structure and stories within stories. "The Soul of the River" has a total of five chapters and is divided into three parts. It tells the story of "I", a new farmer in the new era, who established a professional apple cooperative to lead the villagers out of poverty and become prosperous, and traces back to the organization of Zhang Hongye, a middle-aged man, along the river during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The six villages established the prototype of a joint-stock enterprise "Liu Gutou" by combining the old stories of dry land boating, thereby condensing the consistent spirit of the Yellow River and the soul of the river, and demonstrating the spiritual power of the people of Hukou who are "simple, pure, tolerant and tolerant, tenacious and innovative". The novel contains stories within stories, breaks the traditional linear narrative, and adopts expression methods such as the interlacing of time and space, changing of persons, and the flow of consciousness. The stories within stories include excerpts from "Hukou Chronicles", award-winning lyrics, folk tunes, and other colorful expressions to organically integrate the old and new stories. It writes about the emotional ups and downs of the old and new generations of the Yellow River children, and the two clues advance in parallel, fully presenting the endless spiritual power of the loess land, recreating the scene of the Hukou children unyielding to their fate and breaking through the difficulties of survival, and singing the endless Yellow River Hukou spirit of "simplicity and purity, observance and tolerance, tenacity and innovation".
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