Walking Out of the Col

"Out of the Mountain Col" takes the fate of the three brothers of the Chen family in southern Jiangxi over the past forty years as the axis, showing the spiritual migration under the collision of farming civilization and the wave of urbanization. ?? In the 1980s and 1990s, Chen Jinshui changed his academic qualifications and entered a state-owned enterprise, but his eldest brother was ridiculed on the assembly line because of his dialect. The wave of layoffs and the separation of meat in ancestral halls constituted the spiritual weaning of the "second generation of farmers". After the millennium, my mother's ashes were rejected due to new homestead regulations. The dispute over the old house renovation and the conflict during the Qingming live broadcast echoed each other - ancestor worship incense and Internet celebrity fill-in lights intertwined like a cybernuo opera. In the 2010s, new things such as the Metaverse deconstructed tradition: NFT ancestral property impacted on patriarchal traditions, VR ancestor worship eliminated the "fallen leaves returning to their roots", and the blockchain signatures of the three brothers and their father's cement palm prints finally formed a closed loop of time and space. The work uses the images of "skeletons from the foundation" and "broken silver from silver bracelets" to cast the land policy and identity crisis. The old house turns into an afterimage of the server, and the memory of the ancestral hall in the cloud is like electronic moss, imprinting the password of family tearing and rebirth on the blockchain. From scratching pencils to virtual flesh, from dialect shame to metaverse nostalgia, each journey hides the symbiotic genes of tradition and technology, witnessing those who have left their hometowns rebuilding their root systems. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.