This is the "debut" of the original Jinwei novel by Mr. Wang Chuanlin, a modern storytelling performing artist. The novel is based on the lives of people in Tianjin in the 1930s. It uses a unique old-object trading market with Tianjin characteristics, the ghost market, as a specific scene, and unfolds the storyline around the various life styles of a residential compound that brings together the lowest level of the people. It depicts small antique dealers, small vendors, footmen, entertainers, old policemen... All kinds of characters from the five elements, and even thieves, gangsters, liars, prostitutes and other various market characters. Among them are the ups and downs of ordinary people's lives, the entanglements of family love, the wisdom of ordinary people making a living, and the cunning of greedy people seeking money. There are stories of resistance under oppression, and heroic counterattacks in the face of invaders... The plot is compact and touching, and the language and descriptions of life scenes are full of Tianjin's local characteristics and full of flavor.
