Notes from the Village

[Short Story Collection + Countryside + Grassroots + Bottom Characters + Social Dilemma + Humanity Reflection + Emotions] Hundreds of faces of rural China, a "visual record" of walking on the ridges of the fields. This book is a collection of short stories. Through the five modules of "grassroots", "emotional entanglements", "local characters", "family ethics" and "social phenomena", the author writes deeply into the texture of rural China. For example, in "Love in the Village", two young people with ideals, Li Wei and Yuan Jiao, meet in the countryside. There is no vigorous love, but more like a brief cuddle between two lonely souls. In the grand narrative, there is a gentle sigh about ideals and emotions. For example, the relationship between village elder He and Ali is a middle-aged man's last desire for passion, and it is also a true portrayal of the grassroots ecology. Alan fell into emotional and financial scams, thinking he had found true love, but it was just a well-planned scam. Such as those peasant women who are running for a living, sweating in the fields, struggling to balance family and livelihood, and holding up the sky with tenacity. These stories have no gorgeous rhetoric, no ups and downs of conspiracy, just the fireworks that are closest to life. Homeland and power, emotions and desires intertwined and collided here, and finally converged into a mirror that reflected human nature, reflecting the various human nature, ethical dilemmas and realistic contradictions that emerged in the process of change and development in a specific era. There are praises for truth, goodness and beauty, and there are also lashes against falsehood, evil and ugliness; there are persistent pursuits of ideals, and there are also helpless compromises with reality.