One book, one city.
Liuzhou, also known as Dragon City, is a city where the skeleton of heavy industry and the flesh and blood of the market grow together. Its story is not written in a glossy travel brochure, but is engraved on the rust patterns of the willow steel gantry crane, echoing in the sound of gears in the old Wuling workshop, blooming in the brilliant light and shadow of pink bauhinia flowers all over the city, and steaming in the steam of every bowl of scalding snail noodles in the Shen Alley night market.
"Dragon City Fireworks" is not a linear novel that revolves around individual characters, but a collection of dozens of independent short stories. Each article is a window opened by chance, revealing a forgotten time and an ordinary person being gently beaten by the tide of the times.
The people and things in the story are like memory fragments scattered in every corner of Liuzhou. They form separate chapters, each illuminating a corner, a life, and a mood, but they also reflect each other, and are closely connected by the common geographical space, the intertwined pedigree of characters, and the continuous pulse of the times. When these fragments are put together, they become a dynamic, three-dimensional, and breathing spiritual history of the city.
Whether you are familiar with Liuzhou or not, when you read this book, you will feel a common atmosphere of the times - about the tearing and blending of tradition and modernity, about the interweaving of the fate of the collective and the individual, about the persistent pursuit of family and love, and about every ordinary person's unremitting efforts to find a new life.
