Thirty Years in Hedong and Forty Years in Hexi

This novel about Thirty Years in Hedong and Forty Years in Hexi describes the experiences of a family during the Cultural Revolution. By August 1966, the landlord class in the city was cleared, and all of them, together with their children, returned to their hometowns for labor reform. Intensifying the class struggle in the city, the surviving landlords were already poorer than the poor lower-middle peasants. However, they still lived at the bottom of society, confused, humiliated, hesitant, struggling, and very eager to survive like human beings... The landlord Zhou Shaoguang in the novel was once the attending doctor of the hospital. After being forcibly escorted back to his hometown by the rebels, Zhou Shaoguang devoted himself to serving the health of farmers in his hometown Yezhuling. The class struggle caused the Zhou family to experience life and death in rural life and love, creating the tragedy of love in that era. The two daughters of village party secretary Wang Jincai and Zhou Shaoguang's two sons experienced the loss of class love, interpreting an alternative "Cinderella" love path. However, after the reform and opening up, Zhou Shaoguang did not return to the city's hospital. He chose to stay in his hometown to continue practicing medicine and work with the farmers in his hometown to build the new countryside of Yezhuling. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.