"Still Water Waves" is Li Jieren's masterpiece depicting the customs and customs of Bazi in western Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty. It uses Tianhui Town as the stage to unfold a vivid scroll of urban life. The novel revolves around the ups and downs of Cai's sister-in-law, Deng Yaogu, and connects the emotional entanglements and interest disputes between Cai Xingshun, the honest husband, Luo Waizui, the helmsman of Brother Pao, and Gu Tiancheng, a local farmer.
When the lively and beautiful Sister-in-law Cai meets the bold and uninhibited Luo Waizui, a shocking love affair stirs up waves in the closed town; and when Gu Tiancheng turns to hatred out of love and uses the power of foreign religions to seek revenge, his personal grudges are pushed to the forefront of the changes of the times. In the collision between Paoge culture and foreign religious forces, everyone is involved in the whirlpool of fate.
The language of the work is vivid and full of authentic Sichuan flavor. It contains both the hustle and bustle of the city and the undercurrent of the human heart. It is not only a woman's erotic awakening and struggle with fate, but also a microcosm of the "little waves" rippling under the "stagnant water" of an era.
Desire and ethics, tradition and change are intertwined into a human tragedy and comedy that cannot be missed in this western Sichuan epic.
