The Legend of Hulan River (Chuangmei Library)

This article, "The Story of Hulan River" is a representative work of Xiao Hong's novels. By recalling various characters and life scenes in his hometown, he expresses the author's denial of the social reality of old China that distorts human nature and damages personality. Xiao Hong used her skillful recall skills, lyrical prose style, and heavy yet light writing style to create her "memory-style" works that will be handed down from generation to generation. Mao Dun once commented on the artistic achievements of "The Story of Hulan River": it is a narrative poem, a colorful folk painting, and a string of sad ballads. The feelings of "loneliness and depression" revealed in the works proposed by many researchers can actually be understood from this perspective. The novel is divided into 7 chapters, with an orderly beginning and an epilogue. The famous literary master Mao Dun wrote a preface.