"Life of Educated Youth: Meditations of the Years" vividly depicts how two young educated youths lived in a harsh environment and endured hardships in the countryside deep in the Dabie Mountains from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
This novel comprehensively displays the unique features of Xiashan Village in that special era. The life of educated youth has given them an extremely intuitive and profound understanding of the reality of rural areas. They saw that on the one hand, it presented the tranquility and simplicity of mountain village life, isolated from the outside world, like a paradise; on the other hand, it exposed the primitive and backward state of inconvenient transportation, lack of information, and lack of medical treatment.
The novel profoundly reflects the hardships of the educated youth at that time, and shows how the educated youth bravely and fearlessly faced the challenges of hard life with their youthful enthusiasm and firm belief, as well as their journey of growing up amidst challenges and struggling to find hope in difficult situations. This is undoubtedly a vivid microcosm of the lives of many intellectual young people of that era.
"Life of Educated Youth: Meditations on Time" is a work full of emotion and profound historical background. It is not only an affectionate review of the past, but also a true record and profound reflection on that era.
