Zhang Henshui's Work Series: Danfeng Street
About This Novel
"Danfeng Street" is a long masterpiece written by Zhang Henshui during the Anti-Japanese War. It was originally called "Biographies of Negative Vendors". From the title of the book, it can be seen that the author wanted to write biographies for the lower class hawkers. The novel tells the story of a group of self-reliant vegetable vendors and bartenders on Danfeng Street headed by Tong Laowu. They are not afraid of power and are willing to go bankrupt and run around just to rescue the poor girl Chen Xiujie who was sold by her uncle to Deputy Chief Zhao as his concubine. Underneath the poor and rough appearance of the protagonists, there is a chivalrous spirit of magnanimity, sincerity, and promise. Although the novel is not about martial arts, it uses folk ideas of "chivalry" throughout. From the title to the story content and the spoken dialect in the book, "Danfeng Street" is full of pure Nanjing flavor. In the long corridor of Chinese new literature, there is no novel that can vividly depict the urban culture and customs of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, like Zhang Henshui's "Danfeng Street". "Danfeng Street" shows its skill in the description of genre paintings, style paintings and landscape paintings. It is the "Along the River During Qingming Festival" in Nanjing during the Republic of China.
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