The story adopts the model of returning home, writing about China's past from the perspective of a contemporary Marxist and intellectual who was born in a rural area and received higher education.
The upper part, "Ten Miles and Eight Villages", has about 100,000 words. It directly inherits "Hulan River Biography" and records the history of ten miles and eight villages in the upper and lower reaches of Liugou and Nigou in northern Anhui since the 1990s. "Ten Miles and Eight Villages" is intertwined with two lines: one is the impact and transformation of rural China by the largest modernization in human history, and the other is the childhood trauma and growth of a rural child.
The lower part is divided into three parts: "Study Notes" (130,000 words), "Xueqin Notes" (10,000 words), and "Xunge Notes" (5,000 words). The focus is "Study Notes". "Reading Notes" uses "I" looking through various old books from elementary school to the postgraduate entrance examination on the night before leaving, and strings together a tortuous and repeated history of a contemporary farmer's son and young intellectual growing up into a contemporary Marxist and new socialist. This is also a journey of a rural child's struggle to pursue the Chinese dream in the primary stage of socialism. In his writing, the author drew on classic works such as "The Story of the Hulan River", "Life", "Green Trees", "Shouting in the Drizzle", "The Ferocious Animals", "The Golden Age", "Red and Black", and hereby pays high respect to all predecessors. According to the plan, this is the first part of the "Once Upon a Time in China" trilogy. Different from "Redneck Elegy", this is a Chinese version of "Redneck Ode". I wrote about the problems in the primary stage of socialism and also about the social progress since the 1990s.
Concept: Contemporary "The Story of Hulan River"