Years on the Steering Wheel

A retired automobile soldier, with the steering wheel as his companion, drove through forty years of ups and downs in his life. From the iron-clad role in the military camp to the ordinary persistence in the streets of small towns, he measured the pace of the times with his wheels and witnessed the changes in urban and rural areas with his eyes. Old highways have become new avenues, low-rise houses have become tall buildings, and fireworks are slowly unfolding outside the car window. This is not only a half-life memoir of a veteran, but also a history of the development of the Chinese era written from the perspective of a small person. The patina produced by the steering wheel is a medal of time; the track of the wheel is engraved with the growth of the family and the country.