Tensions roil beneath the surface of the Asia-Pacific, and the great powers are on the brink of confrontation.
Long Hao, a Harvard PhD in biology, invents a biochemical weapon called Dragon River One, instantly becoming the target of competing international forces. To evade the US Central Intelligence Agency’s interest, Long Hao secretly returns to his ancestral home in Longhe Village, eastern Hunan, with Dani, a foreign-born female PhD.
The century-old secrets preserved in the ancient Longhe village reveal the mystery of Long Hao’s unusual origins, while the blood and tears of the clan at the Longhe Temple stain the century-long history of Longhe’s totem. Through the wondrous, tragic love stories of Long Yu and Tian Mei, Man Tuo and Feng Yu, and Zhizi and Long Ma, the novel celebrates the beauty and splendor of human love and desire. Through Tian Mei, Feng Yu, and Long Ma, it portrays the world of women. The astonishing legends of the Ghost Temple leave readers gasping in awe amid heart-pounding tales of love and hatred!
More than thirty years pass. After a circuitous journey through Taiwan, Long Hao returns from the United States, where he completed his studies, and the ancient village of Longhe is swept up in turmoil. American and Japanese spies arrive one after another, while forces from every side secretly probe for the core secrets of Dragon River One. The ancient town of Longhe becomes the focal point of a global intelligence contest. At this critical moment, the Chinese military launches its highest-level protection operation to safeguard the returning scientist Long Hao.
The mystery of Long Hao’s origins forms the novel’s central thread, spanning clan feuds, wars over the nation, and changing times. Through the love stories of the women of Longhe, it depicts the rise and fall of human nature in a land rich with history. Blending a thousand years of dragon culture and rural love stories with modern international power struggles, the novel combines human warmth with a grand vision of nation and family. It portrays the brilliance of human nature and the cruelty of war, and the upheaval in the world order sparked by Dragon River One serves as a warning to turn away from war and cherish peace. The Legend of Longhe is an epic rural saga well worth reading in our time!
"The Legend of Dragon River" is a good book worth reading for both men and women! The author Tieshui Qinglang pioneered rural realism among Chinese field writers. He is a writer who "writes women's lives with a man's soul". The novel "Legend of Longhe" was originally called "Breast Totem". It is a masterpiece of a novel that eulogizes the totem of men and women and the world. The novel takes Dr. Long Hao's overseas return to Longhe Village in eastern Hunan as the main line, and the hero and heroine Gardenia. Connected with the tragic and legendary life of Long Ma, in the three-hundred-year history of blood and tears of Longhe people's totems, the shocking ghost temple legend hides Long Hao's true life experience for more than thirty years, making the world marvel at the thrilling legend of love and hate! The fascinating historical pictures presented in the novel "Dragon River Legend", the centuries-old amazing "Songs of Love and Ghost Songs" and the legend of destiny of Longhe people, the reorganization of world hegemons triggered by "Dragon River No. 1", The profound Eastern dragon culture for thousands of years and the bloody hegemony of the modern world will surely blow up a powerful "dragon" tornado in the north and south of the Yangtze River, creating a reading legend of novels in the new century!