Looking South of the Yangtze River

"Looking to the South of the Yangtze River" is a novel written by Wang Xufeng, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, who spent 26 years in hiding. The novel narrates the ups and downs of the Hang family, a tea family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the fate of the characters during the magnificent social process in the nearly twenty years before and after the founding of New China. Wang Xufeng writes about tea people and tea affairs. In the earth-shaking era, he writes about the choice and openness, integration and advancement of the Chinese people soaked in the mist and rain of Jiangnan; in the excitement and wind and thunder of the times, Wang Xufeng writes about the fragrance and nature of tea, the poetry and power of Jiangnan culture, and the Chinese style, feelings and character. The story of the Hang family is also a Chinese story. It intersects historical memories and emotional imagination. It is not only a reconstruction of the lost time, but also an exploration of the modern inheritance of cultural traditions. This novel provides a new narrative for the dramatic changes and permanence of Chinese life and spirit, and witnesses the century-old China in personal history, family history, and national history.