The Legend of Hulan River
by Xiao Hong
About This Novel
This book is based on the final version of "The Story of Hulan River" and "The Field of Life and Death" published in 1940. It has been carefully edited and edited to retain the original characteristics of Xiao Hong. It has added 11 original hand-painted illustrations to reproduce classic literary scenes such as burning clouds and chasing dragonflies in the back garden. The pictures are beautiful and warm, and completely restore the background of the novel's story. "The Story of Hulan River": Xiao Hong's final masterpiece, a classic novel with an autobiographical nature, and it is also "a narrative poem, a colorful folk painting, and a string of sad ballads." Xiao Hong's childhood was lonely. In her memory, people in the small town of Hulan River always lived unchanged, doing what they thought they should do year after year. As for why they did so, they seemed unclear. People in the small town are telling different stories all year round. In addition to the trivial life, there are also spiritual grand events: dancing, singing yangko, setting off river lanterns, wild stage opera, and the April 18th Empress Temple Assembly, and most of these are related to ghosts and gods. The tragic fate of Xiaotuan Yuan's daughter-in-law, the eccentric temperament of her second uncle, and Feng Waizuizi's tenacious vitality all left a deep impression on her childhood memories. However, her warm childhood memories are of her grandfather and the back garden. This is the warmest feeling and conversion in her spiritual life, and it is also the hometown emotion that resonates with thousands of readers. "The Field of Life and Death": Xiao Hong's early famous work, a classic in the history of Chinese literature, tells the story of people's tenacity for life, struggle for death, and resistance to fate under the changing times. The full text provides a thorough and profound interpretation of human nature and human survival. Xiao Hong was only 23 years old when she wrote this article, but she had already experienced the death of her mother, the death of her beloved grandfather, resisting marriage and studying, being under house arrest, escaping, wandering, living with others and becoming pregnant, being abandoned, losing a lawsuit, being held hostage, and asking for help from a newspaper. , Falling in love with Xiao Jun, giving away a daughter, publishing the collection "Travel" with Xiao Jun, and life hardships such as from Harbin to Qingdao... The first draft of "The Field of Life and Death" was revised by Mr. Lu Xun himself, and the preface was recommended. After its publication, it became a sensation in the literary world.
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