Huangyuan River

This is a long novel about the struggles and struggles of ordinary people in the torrent of the times. The story takes place on the Loess Plateau around the 1980s, centered on the Yang brothers Yang Shuangquan and Yang Shuangming in Shigejie Village, and radiating out a broad social picture from the countryside to the city. The eldest brother Yang Shuangquan has roots in the land and has to bear the burden of poverty and responsibility; the younger brother Yang Shuangming has a dream and is eager to make his own way through reading and labor. Around them, there are also characters such as Qiao Weihong, a rural teacher who sticks to love, Liu Zhenhan, a grassroots cadre who is torn between career and conscience, and Tian Yu, a city girl who dares to love and hate. Through a delicate depiction of the living conditions of ordinary people, the work shows the tenacity, dignity, pain and pursuit of small and medium-sized people in the great era.