The million-word novel "Wenshuitan" spans the history of China's rural areas from the 1960s to the 1990s. The author is familiar with rural life and has been engaged in rural work for a long time. He spent five years carefully compiling it, and its weight goes without saying. This is a long scroll of rural life and a thought-provoking masterpiece. At the great moment of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this lengthy publication well explains the rural revitalization strategy of prosperous industries, livable ecology, civilized rural customs, effective governance, and affluent life.
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From all aspects, it truly shows the countryside from the 1950s to the present, and creates a rural grassroots Jiao Yulu. Judging from the book, the rural areas in central Shandong are developing better than ours. I hope there will be more rural grassroots cadres in the book in rural areas.
The author has a rich accumulation of life, which reflects the social changes in rural Shandong since the 1960s. The main characters have distinct personalities, and the story has a clear development context. It is very natural and smooth, and does not pursue ups and downs. It is as simple and unpretentious as life itself. The writing is plain and does not pursue gorgeousness, but it is also very literary. Like it very much.
The book uses a lot of colloquialisms, idioms and witty humor as highlights. Rural life is truly reproduced, which shows that the author knows rural life very well. For example, the method of weaving a raincoat and the details of cleaning a lampshade show that the author has gone deep into grassroots life and has personal experience through careful observation.
The writing is very good and feels very real, like going back to those years! I am from Jiaxiang, a neighboring county. The hailstorm written about in the 1970s seems to be true. I heard from an old man that someone in our area went to pick wheat and was hit by hailstones.
Wenshui is an ordinary village. Under the rich natural resources and simple folk customs of Qilu, this place has nurtured the elders who have settled here for generations. The protagonist Pan Zhongdi was born and raised here, but his dream was never realized due to bad luck. It is hard for a technical secondary school student to pack up and return to his hometown like this. But isn't true heroism just seeing the essence of life and still loving it? The protagonist in the author's writing continues to work hard for his hometown and contributes his strength to the rural folks and elders while facing the loess and turning his back to the sky.
Wenshui is an ordinary village. Under the rich natural resources and simple folk customs of Qilu, this place has nurtured the elders who have settled here for generations. The protagonist Pan Zhongdi was born and raised here, but his dream was never realized due to bad luck. It is hard for a technical secondary school student to pack up and return to his hometown like this. But isn't true heroism just seeing the essence of life and still loving it? The protagonist in the author's writing continues to work hard for his hometown and contributes his strength to the rural folks and elders while facing the loess and turning his back to the sky.
"Wenshuitan" is a novel, divided into three volumes, with a total of 1.2 Million words. The work intercepts a historical section spanning 30 years from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through ups and downs of the storyline and vivid and interesting local language, it focuses on the history of reform and development of a village called Wenshuitan in central Shandong Province driven by the wheel of the times. It profoundly reflects the problems of contemporary agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and is a picture of contemporary rural life. The work successfully created more than 160 group portraits, showing the outstanding character of the people of central Shandong, who are simple, kind, tenacious and courageous. The protagonist Pan Zhongdi and others have distinctive personalities, lifelike and full of characteristics of the times.
The author uses simple and unpretentious language to tell the stories of the rural areas from the 1960s to the 1990s, which makes people feel very real, just like the stories happening around them. I also came from rural Hebei and have a profound experience of rural life. The stories in the book can arouse my resonance and remind me of the era I lived in, the beautiful time that I can never go back to. In addition, the author gave me the feeling that it is full of positive energy. Many of the main characters in the story are positive and have very correct views. If people today, especially leaders, are still as selfless as they were then, then our society will be more harmonious and better. In short, it is a very good work and worth reading.
This book is really well written, covering things in our lives, customs and regional characteristics here. In today's era of bad books, this book can be regarded as an excellent book, but friends from other places may not understand the names of the characters and relationships here [laughing]
Finally finished reading. The overall feeling is not like a novel, but like a collection of sketches. As far as the current readership is concerned, those who like this novel should like it very much, and those who don't can't stand it. Talking about the good side, the writing style is still smooth, and the old gentleman has a good writing foundation. The text also fully reflects the rural people and customs in Jiaodong area, including a large number of details of food, agriculture, planting and breeding, which is of great help to understand the changes in the overall life of the local rural areas over the past few decades. The shortcomings are also obvious. There seems to be no overall concept, and the narrative is mixed and without focus. The most common things are the trivial matters of daily life. Seeing the big from the small, there are too many homogeneous characters. The overall intention seems to be to record the era, record a few typical cadres, and record the ups and downs of decades. There is something missing. There is no second volume among the three volumes, which is probably better. Finally, some of Gao Daquan's character creations that go against human nature are unfavorable. On the contrary, it is more successful to laugh and scold those with true temperaments. I pay tribute to the author for being able to calm down and write for many years.
It's so wonderfully written. I haven't read such a beautiful article in a long time. It's like writing about what's happening around us.
It's rare to see such a good book
I often hear my grandparents tell stories about their childhood, about their time of going to the mountains and countryside and the different development opportunities of the era. The content of this book written by Mr. Du made me feel familiar. The scenes described in it seemed like stories that my grandparents had told me as children. In particular, the three-year national economic difficulties in rural Shandong described in the book was the period I heard about most when I was a child. Grandma leaned on the backrest and squinted and told me that there was no food in those years and everyone relied on eating tree roots and chewing bark to survive. Thinking about the difficulties at that time, we are really living a very prosperous material life now.
This is a good article, but not an enjoyable one. The popularity is too low, and there are very few authors who can write about this era. Many people don't know what happened at that time! The author deserves respect!
It makes people feel that it touches the soul when reading it. It will be unforgettable for a long time and I can't extricate myself from the plot for a long time. This is how I felt after reading this book. After reading this book, I couldn't get over the sad and slightly ironic plot that the author created for us for a long time. The author's seemingly gentle language is the most destructive, making people immersed in it for a long time but unable to extricate themselves. I recommend everyone to read this excellent book. It will definitely surprise and shock you.
This is a book that makes people feel deeply moved and unforgettable for a long time. It is impossible to extricate themselves from the plot for a long time. After reading this book, I couldn't get over the sad and slightly ironic plot that the author created for us for a long time. The author's seemingly gentle language is the most destructive, making people immersed in it for a long time but unable to extricate themselves. I recommend everyone to read this excellent book. It will definitely surprise and shock you.
The language is simple and plain, and the line drawing technique is used to describe a group of people who love life in hard times. The characters are vivid and prominent, and they are humorous. Use a lot of rural life knowledge and skills! The story is bland and the plot is not outstanding!
It fits the rural life of that era and is very good. I have read it twice.
This book has a long time span, a real and touching plot, and simple language, making it hard to put it down. I read around 12 o'clock at night for several days.
It is a very good book and I highly recommend it to everyone. As a rural person born in the 1970s, the characters and events are all very familiar and the ending is beautiful. Maybe there are not so many perfect endings in reality, even if they are fictitious facts and characters. People always have to live for the beauty in their hearts, right?
The author's personal experience or real life experience combined with the straightforward narration allows readers to immerse themselves in the story. Times are changing and the main theme of the book is refreshing, which is more enjoyable to read than "The Ordinary World".
After watching it, I feel like I have returned to that era
The modern history of rural my country is well written.
This book is so touching. Some plots make those who read the novel shed tears. It can be said that it touches the soul. Today's good life is hard to come by, and society has developed and changed too much.
A very real and down-to-earth book.
A very good book indeed! It truly and objectively reflects the rural social conditions, people's thoughts and inner activities of the times. The main characters are flesh and blood, and actively reflects the spiritual outlook of the people at different historical stages since the founding of New China!
Really good! I wonder if there is a prototype character?
The text is simple, the plot is smooth, and it is a work with a strong local flavor. In addition to the well-written protagonist Pan Zhongdi, the article also includes Pan Xiuju, Pan Zhongliang, and Zhang Fashu. Each person's personality is vividly displayed on the page. It is a rare good article with depth.
A good book that exudes the fragrance of earth, with vivid characters and sincere emotions.
I think "Wenshuitan" is a very meaningful work. It truly shows the changes in rural China and makes me feel like I have returned to that era. I like some of the characters in the book, they are all vivid and have their own stories and personalities. This book is not only a literary work, but also a vivid interpretation of the rural revitalization strategy, which gave me a deeper understanding of rural development. Recommended to friends who like rural themes, it is worth reading!
Classic! A classic for today's time! What a breath of fresh air for the current chaos in the literary world! I read it in one sitting without even eating, drinking or sleeping! If we don't have the bottom line of ideas and morals, we are no better than animals! Looking forward to such excellent work!
From all aspects, it truly shows the countryside from the 1950s to the present, and creates a rural grassroots Jiao Yulu. Judging from the book, the rural areas in central Shandong are developing better than ours. I hope there will be more rural grassroots cadres in the book in rural areas.
The author has a rich accumulation of life, which reflects the social changes in rural Shandong since the 1960s. The main characters have distinct personalities, and the story has a clear development context. It is very natural and smooth, and does not pursue ups and downs. It is as simple and unpretentious as life itself. The writing is plain and does not pursue gorgeousness, but it is also very literary. Like it very much.
The book uses a lot of colloquialisms, idioms and witty humor as highlights. Rural life is truly reproduced, which shows that the author knows rural life very well. For example, the method of weaving a raincoat and the details of cleaning a lampshade show that the author has gone deep into grassroots life and has personal experience through careful observation.
The writing is very good and feels very real, like going back to those years! I am from Jiaxiang, a neighboring county. The hailstorm written about in the 1970s seems to be true. I heard from an old man that someone in our area went to pick wheat and was hit by hailstones.
Wenshui is an ordinary village. Under the rich natural resources and simple folk customs of Qilu, this place has nurtured the elders who have settled here for generations. The protagonist Pan Zhongdi was born and raised here, but his dream was never realized due to bad luck. It is hard for a technical secondary school student to pack up and return to his hometown like this. But isn't true heroism just seeing the essence of life and still loving it? The protagonist in the author's writing continues to work hard for his hometown and contributes his strength to the rural folks and elders while facing the loess and turning his back to the sky.
Wenshui is an ordinary village. Under the rich natural resources and simple folk customs of Qilu, this place has nurtured the elders who have settled here for generations. The protagonist Pan Zhongdi was born and raised here, but his dream was never realized due to bad luck. It is hard for a technical secondary school student to pack up and return to his hometown like this. But isn't true heroism just seeing the essence of life and still loving it? The protagonist in the author's writing continues to work hard for his hometown and contributes his strength to the rural folks and elders while facing the loess and turning his back to the sky.
"Wenshuitan" is a novel, divided into three volumes, with a total of 1.2 Million words. The work intercepts a historical section spanning 30 years from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through ups and downs of the storyline and vivid and interesting local language, it focuses on the history of reform and development of a village called Wenshuitan in central Shandong Province driven by the wheel of the times. It profoundly reflects the problems of contemporary agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and is a picture of contemporary rural life. The work successfully created more than 160 group portraits, showing the outstanding character of the people of central Shandong, who are simple, kind, tenacious and courageous. The protagonist Pan Zhongdi and others have distinctive personalities, lifelike and full of characteristics of the times.
The author uses simple and unpretentious language to tell the stories of the rural areas from the 1960s to the 1990s, which makes people feel very real, just like the stories happening around them. I also came from rural Hebei and have a profound experience of rural life. The stories in the book can arouse my resonance and remind me of the era I lived in, the beautiful time that I can never go back to. In addition, the author gave me the feeling that it is full of positive energy. Many of the main characters in the story are positive and have very correct views. If people today, especially leaders, are still as selfless as they were then, then our society will be more harmonious and better. In short, it is a very good work and worth reading.
This book is really well written, covering things in our lives, customs and regional characteristics here. In today's era of bad books, this book can be regarded as an excellent book, but friends from other places may not understand the names of the characters and relationships here [laughing]
Finally finished reading. The overall feeling is not like a novel, but like a collection of sketches. As far as the current readership is concerned, those who like this novel should like it very much, and those who don't can't stand it. Talking about the good side, the writing style is still smooth, and the old gentleman has a good writing foundation. The text also fully reflects the rural people and customs in Jiaodong area, including a large number of details of food, agriculture, planting and breeding, which is of great help to understand the changes in the overall life of the local rural areas over the past few decades. The shortcomings are also obvious. There seems to be no overall concept, and the narrative is mixed and without focus. The most common things are the trivial matters of daily life. Seeing the big from the small, there are too many homogeneous characters. The overall intention seems to be to record the era, record a few typical cadres, and record the ups and downs of decades. There is something missing. There is no second volume among the three volumes, which is probably better. Finally, some of Gao Daquan's character creations that go against human nature are unfavorable. On the contrary, it is more successful to laugh and scold those with true temperaments. I pay tribute to the author for being able to calm down and write for many years.
It's so wonderfully written. I haven't read such a beautiful article in a long time. It's like writing about what's happening around us.
It's rare to see such a good book
I often hear my grandparents tell stories about their childhood, about their time of going to the mountains and countryside and the different development opportunities of the era. The content of this book written by Mr. Du made me feel familiar. The scenes described in it seemed like stories that my grandparents had told me as children. In particular, the three-year national economic difficulties in rural Shandong described in the book was the period I heard about most when I was a child. Grandma leaned on the backrest and squinted and told me that there was no food in those years and everyone relied on eating tree roots and chewing bark to survive. Thinking about the difficulties at that time, we are really living a very prosperous material life now.
This is a good article, but not an enjoyable one. The popularity is too low, and there are very few authors who can write about this era. Many people don't know what happened at that time! The author deserves respect!
It makes people feel that it touches the soul when reading it. It will be unforgettable for a long time and I can't extricate myself from the plot for a long time. This is how I felt after reading this book. After reading this book, I couldn't get over the sad and slightly ironic plot that the author created for us for a long time. The author's seemingly gentle language is the most destructive, making people immersed in it for a long time but unable to extricate themselves. I recommend everyone to read this excellent book. It will definitely surprise and shock you.
This is a book that makes people feel deeply moved and unforgettable for a long time. It is impossible to extricate themselves from the plot for a long time. After reading this book, I couldn't get over the sad and slightly ironic plot that the author created for us for a long time. The author's seemingly gentle language is the most destructive, making people immersed in it for a long time but unable to extricate themselves. I recommend everyone to read this excellent book. It will definitely surprise and shock you.
The language is simple and plain, and the line drawing technique is used to describe a group of people who love life in hard times. The characters are vivid and prominent, and they are humorous. Use a lot of rural life knowledge and skills! The story is bland and the plot is not outstanding!
It fits the rural life of that era and is very good. I have read it twice.
This book has a long time span, a real and touching plot, and simple language, making it hard to put it down. I read around 12 o'clock at night for several days.
It is a very good book and I highly recommend it to everyone. As a rural person born in the 1970s, the characters and events are all very familiar and the ending is beautiful. Maybe there are not so many perfect endings in reality, even if they are fictitious facts and characters. People always have to live for the beauty in their hearts, right?
The author's personal experience or real life experience combined with the straightforward narration allows readers to immerse themselves in the story. Times are changing and the main theme of the book is refreshing, which is more enjoyable to read than "The Ordinary World".
After watching it, I feel like I have returned to that era
The modern history of rural my country is well written.
This book is so touching. Some plots make those who read the novel shed tears. It can be said that it touches the soul. Today's good life is hard to come by, and society has developed and changed too much.
A very real and down-to-earth book.
A very good book indeed! It truly and objectively reflects the rural social conditions, people's thoughts and inner activities of the times. The main characters are flesh and blood, and actively reflects the spiritual outlook of the people at different historical stages since the founding of New China! Really good! I wonder if there is a prototype character?
The text is simple, the plot is smooth, and it is a work with a strong local flavor. In addition to the well-written protagonist Pan Zhongdi, the article also includes Pan Xiuju, Pan Zhongliang, and Zhang Fashu. Each person's personality is vividly displayed on the page. It is a rare good article with depth.
A good book that exudes the fragrance of earth, with vivid characters and sincere emotions.
I think "Wenshuitan" is a very meaningful work. It truly shows the changes in rural China and makes me feel like I have returned to that era. I like some of the characters in the book, they are all vivid and have their own stories and personalities. This book is not only a literary work, but also a vivid interpretation of the rural revitalization strategy, which gave me a deeper understanding of rural development. Recommended to friends who like rural themes, it is worth reading!
Classic! A classic for today's time! What a breath of fresh air for the current chaos in the literary world! I read it in one sitting without even eating, drinking or sleeping! If we don't have the bottom line of ideas and morals, we are no better than animals! Looking forward to such excellent work!