
Blossoms and Brocades
by Lu Jin
About This Novel
"Falling Flowers" is a novel. The background of the story is Shanghai. The novel revolves around the protagonist Cheng Jinheng's initially ups and downs and ultimately twists and turns in his career and the ups and downs of emotional experiences that accompany it, expressing the author's thoughts on life, life and social development. The implicit theme of this book is that even if life is a journey against the odds, there will be ups and downs in the journey, but there will also be beauty; even if we feel that life has treated us badly, we cannot extinguish the flame of love in our hearts, and we cannot simply give up passively because the probability of realizing our ideals is small, because we firmly believe that as long as we persist, we will eventually gain something, either now or then. In the novel, in addition to the male protagonist, there are also the heroine Zheng Ruoxi, who has returned from overseas, and the secular and confused wife Liu Jialing of the male protagonist Cheng Jinheng. There are also Zheng Ruoxi's brother Zheng Ruoyu and Zheng Ruoyu's childhood and business partner Tang Wangyao. Zheng Ruoxi's father, retired professor Zheng Xiuzhi, mother is Shen Panjuan, an obstetrician and gynecologist who uses her spare energy, Zheng Ruyu's full-time wife Ni Yaqin, and his love object dance school teacher Liu Qingqing, Cheng Jinheng's family, and Xiaobaicai, the proprietress of a home-cooked restaurant in his hometown town, etc. All the characters in the novel are ordinary people we meet in our daily lives. Their work, life, and relationships embody and contain the enterprising, tolerance, grandeur, and beauty of the city of Shanghai. Of course, partial descriptions also reflect the unknown loss, anxiety, and even struggles of ordinary people in society.
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