The author stopped writing for 20 years and started writing again. Before "Jianghan Ballads" was published, it won the first Xinmang Literary Project Award and was called by the media "the literary version of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"" and "a banner of folk novels."
The seven chapters in the book can not only be written independently, but also have different perspectives, techniques, persons, language rhythms, etc. Zhao Zhaochuan combines realism, absurd magic, stream of consciousness technique, prose style, and field investigation. It is actually the crystallization of his 20 years of in-depth thinking on novel innovation.
The novel incorporates the traditional culture of the Jianghan Plain such as funeral drums, mourning, Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boats, ghost festivals, wedding customs, funerals, and banquets into the wonderful and delicate story of the Anti-Japanese War. It is very much like a chronicle of customs and culture. The folk songs, folk songs, drum lyrics, cry lyrics, chants and unique delicacies incorporated into the book are like a collection of intangible cultural heritage.
An independent and unique author, a unique novel, a work of exploration and innovation, it is also worth reading by famous literary figures.
