Hesheng Memory

This novel is based on the real historical, geographical, and humanistic background of Hesheng Town, Ningxian County, Gansu Province. The main historical figures and events are based on historical data, and some details are literary creations. This article would like to pay tribute to the history and culture of Hesheng Town and the people who have lived on this land! In the morning light on the Loess Plateau in eastern Longxi, Hesheng Town at the southern end of Dongzhiyuan gradually wakes up. One morning in 2025, the white-haired Zhou Wenyuan stood on Wanxiang Mountain, overlooking the land that had given birth to his family for hundreds of years. In the distance, the roar of bulldozers heralds the coming changes - Hesheng Town will be developed into a new special economic zone. Zhou Wenyuan held a yellowed genealogy tightly in his hand and turned to the first page, which neatly read: "Zhou Sisheng, courtesy name Zicai, Hao Jiyan, a member of the Zhou family in Xinhua, Ningzhou. He was born in the third year of Jiajing and died in the third year of Longqing. He was forty-five years old." This supervisory censor during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty was the starting point for the Zhou family to take root in Hesheng Town. Now, as the development plan advances, the Zhou family's old house faces the fate of demolition. Zhou Wenyuan is determined to completely record the history of his family and this land before the bulldozers arrive. He opened his notebook and wrote the first date: 1524. The wind blows across the plateau, seeming to bring echoes of hundreds of years...