"Chicken Feathers on a Place" is a collection of short stories by Liu Zhenyun, a famous contemporary Chinese writer. In addition to "Chicken Feathers on a Place", a masterpiece of "new realistic novels" that was adapted into a film and television work and is well-known to the public, there are also 8 works including Liu Zhenyun's SHOU novel "Tapu", the military novel "Recruit Company", China's SHOU official novel "Official Land", and "The Oral Message" which became the germination of "One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences".
The representative work "Chicken Feathers on a Ground" started with a piece of tofu that went sour in Xiao Lin's family. It describes all the grudges, right and wrong in the vegetable basket, wife, children, tofu, nanny, and work. It reflects the daily life and living conditions of most Chinese people in the early days of reform and opening up, and profoundly reflects the inner and outer changes that the new situation of reform and opening up has brought to people.
From this collection of short stories, we can gain an insight into the civilian perspective of Liu Zhenyun's early creations. It is also Liu Zhenyun's first work, but it shows considerable maturity and sophistication. To this day, it has become more classic and timeless after the passage of time.
