Dongjiahuo·xijiayan
by Water Boy
About This Novel
This is a film set in the countryside of eastern Hebei Province, describing the rise and fall of the Wu family in Wudaizhuang Village after the Tangshan earthquake. In the land of eastern Hebei, there is a small village named Wudaizhuang, which was awarded to the ancestor Wu Fan by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, my great-grandfather Wu Tongmao falsely conveyed an imperial edict, claiming that he had won the first prize in the examination. When the emperor found out, he wanted to kill all the people in the village. Later, the father of the great-grandfather who taught in Liu Shige Village and all the villagers in Liu Shige Village jointly signed a letter, and the lives of all the villagers were saved. However, the emperor decreed that from now on, no one from Wudaizhuang Village could be an official for the fourth generation, and the author happened to be the fourth generation. The author experienced the Tangshan Earthquake when she was born, and her parents rebuilt their home on the ruins. The forty years of reform and opening up that she experienced were also the forty years of the rise and fall of the entire family and village. The rise and fall of a family is also the rise and fall of a village, or even the entire countryside. Finally, after four generations of hard work, the curse was finally broken, and the author walked out of this barren land and realized the dream that his ancestors had always dreamed of.
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