Executive summary
The background of the characters' activities in this novel is the 1950s and 1960s.
The novel has created a series of distinctive characters such as Fang Yunhan, Huang Wei, Gao Jie, and Li Xiaojun. It can be said that their love requirements and calls for freedom and individual liberation are the harbingers of reform and opening up.
Fang Yunhan began his bumpy life path from the day he was born. His parents believed the witch's prophecy and threw him away as a disaster star. After being rescued by his grandfather and grandmother, he was abused by his parents for a long time. After school, I met open-minded teachers Yu Gengshi, Chen Qiong, Bao Jiadeng, Bai Yongfang, etc. Influenced by them, I fell in love with writing and music. But at the same time, he also suffered many blows from school cadres such as Hu Yansen and Zhao Yizhi who liked to bully others. In addition, she longed for love but couldn't get it, so she became melancholy. In order to vent his anger, he started writing novels. However, his work was rejected by the publishing house as having political errors. In the prelude to the film, Fang Yunhan's dream of being a writer burst like a soap bubble.
The novel uses Qingshui Furong's language and line drawing techniques to draw us vivid pictures of campus life and beautiful landscape paintings, which are full of poetic charm. The plot is full of ups and downs, the story is strong and fascinating.