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Mirror Hanging High

Chen Cang

157K0

This is a poem that cheers for the fight against corruption and upholds integrity. Contemporary "groupies" worship various youth idols. Do traditional Chinese subjects have idols? The answer is yes. If you pay a little attention to classical literary works, historical books, film and television works with ancient historical themes, dramas, and folk arts, it is not difficult to find the idols worshiped by traditional Chinese subjects.

Little Sister Goes to Town

Chen Cang

75K0

This book contains two novellas: "Shanghai is Not a Beach" and "Little Sister Enters the City". During an accidental trip, a woman of unknown origin became a beautiful fulcrum and pried him to the beach in Shanghai. Just as he was relying on his own creativity to revive a newspaper that was facing bankruptcy, this woman named Liu Shui Luo Hua appeared again. She has been following her, haunting him like a shadow, causing him to get involved in an inexplicable scandal. On a crucial occasion, she revealed herself to be a young lady. Is she a lunatic? Is it a peach trap? In the complex and noisy city life, everything seems so uncertain and everyone seems so suspicious. The article ends by pointing out the original sin: the gap between natives and outsiders.

Moonlight is Not Light

Chen Cang

163K0

"Moonlight Is Not Light" is Chen Cang's latest collection of essays, which includes seven large essays, including "I Have a Tree", "Father's Love Affair", "Brother's Legacy", "Moonlight Is Not Light", etc. The work describes the various complexes that the urban and rural changes since the reform and opening up have brought to the protagonists, including nostalgia, family affection, attachment to the past life, and fear and adaptation to the ever-changing life today. Among them, "I Have a Tree" tells the story of the fateful entanglement between a farmer, a village and various trees; "Father's Love" depicts a ridiculous story that happened after a farmer's father entered the city; "The Magpie is Back" It tells the story of a humble and helpless descendant of a farmer who is looking for his missing uncle, that is, a source of support; "Moonlight Is Not Light" tells the story of migrant workers who return to their hometown with their children to find their roots and find that the countryside has become a hometown that they cannot return to. The work reflects the psychological shock that the tremendous changes in the countryside have brought to people who are far away from and returning to their hometowns during the journey of poverty alleviation.

The Magpie Returns to the Roof

Chen Cang

29K0

My family has a courtyard from the landlord era. There used to be dozens of people living in the courtyard, but now only my father is left. 1. My family has a courtyard built in the landlord era. There used to be dozens of people living in the courtyard, but now only my father is left. Every morning, the first thing my father did was sit on the threshold, smoking and looking into the distance. He seemed to have lost sight of the entire village and the entire mountain. There used to be magpies chirping on the roof, but such good news has become less and less common, so the magpies have disappeared and been replaced by the ominous crows. My village is called Tarping, and it belongs to Yujiahe Town, Danfeng County, east of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province. This village is so inconspicuous that not only can you not find it on the map, but you can't find it in any classics.

Mi Xi Enters the City

Mi Xi Enters the City

General Fiction

Chen Cang

82K0

This book contains two novellas: "Beautiful Death" and "Mi Xi Enters the City". He met a girl with single eyelids through the Internet. She was the "angel" he had been pursuing for many years. During the ten days of interacting with the angel, they sometimes slept on the same bed and sometimes wandered among the mountains and rivers, but many accidents did not happen when they should have happened, including of course sex. The two people don't seem to love each other, but they are so sentimental; the two people don't seem to hate each other, but they go against each other again and again. In the end, due to a small misunderstanding, she couldn't stand the stimulation and died unfortunately. At this time, the mystery was revealed. When the suicide note she left appears in front of your eyes, will you hold back your tears?

Shadow Comes to Town

Shadow Comes to Town

General Fiction

Chen Cang

79K0

"Shadow Enters the City" edited by Chen Cang includes: Father's Coffin Tree; Creation Talk: One Person's Religion; Shadow Enters the City; Creation Talk: Death is Worthy of Respect.

Three Feet Underground

Three Feet Underground

General Fiction

Chen Cang

206K0

Being a good person can communicate with gods and ghosts, because the common language in the three realms is kindness; people often talk about cause and effect, that is, if you sow beans, you will reap melons, but kindness is an omnipotent seed. If you do good everywhere, the world will reward you in a different way, your blessings will come, and your luck will be particularly good. It is included in the "Selected Novels" Biennial Award, the Shaanxi Youth Literature Award winning works, and two works on the annual ranking list evaluated by the Chinese Novel Society. It is a rare and heart-warming work in suspended life, telling the world that we are living in good faith.

Piggy Comes to Town

Piggy Comes to Town

General Fiction

Chen Cang

71K0

This book contains two novellas: "Little Pig Goes to Town" and "Sheep Friend". After his father came to the city, he kept clamoring for Tarping. In order to keep his father, his son bought a pig because raising pigs was his father's favorite. This pig is different from other pigs. It is a small fragrant pig that does not grow very big, so it is the pet that my daughter-in-law has always wanted. The father raised pigs on a high-rise building in the city, and his daughter-in-law used the pigs as a tool for venting her anger. This triggered a series of ridiculous and touching stories, including feeding the pigs, bathing the pigs, and letting the pigs relax. It ends with the pig jumping off the building, pushing the collision between urban and rural areas to a climax. The end of the story: A pig shed tears. I'm afraid what they shed was not tears, but compassion for humans.

Prophet

Prophet

Literature

Chen Cang

142K0

This is a long narrative prose. The author uses a poetic touch to describe the three-year journey of himself and his wife from conception to welcoming a new life with joy and anxiety. He follows the growth of his son with the eyes of a father and writer. In the seemingly trivial daily life, the author is keenly aware of the conflicts between his original family and his new family, traces the root causes, and finally puts forward a social proposition on how to deal with the relationship between free nature and secular rules.

Father Goes to Town

Father Goes to Town

General Fiction

Chen Cang

70K01

This book contains two novellas: "Father Goes to Town" and "Father's Later Life". The son got a house and a car in Shanghai, took his wife and settled down, and began to take his father to the city to celebrate the New Year. My father has been living in the remote Tarping. There are no telephones or any electrical appliances in the village. All food and supplies are self-sufficient. Basically, we are still in a primitive society. My father is illiterate and cannot speak Mandarin. He is also deaf and has lost his teeth. After arriving in Shanghai, he seemed out of place in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, including bathing, going to the toilet, and taking the elevator. A series of ridiculous and heartbreaking stories happened. "My father raised me hard and hoped that I would walk out of the mountains as far as possible. The distance is my future and his achievement; the distance is my homesickness and his loneliness." It makes people reflect: Where is the real distance between the city and the countryside?

A Fool Enters the City

A Fool Enters the City

General Fiction

Chen Cang

77K0

This book contains two novellas: "The Fool Enters the City" and "The Story of the Trojan Horse". My uncle was imprisoned for selling food stamps. The place where he was imprisoned happened to be in Xi'an, so he was the first person to leave Tarping. When my uncle was in prison, he learned to write and do brickwork. After he came back, he wrote couplets for the village and built tombs for the dead and the living, becoming a very glorious hero. As a fool, in order to get out of the mountains and see the outside world like his uncle, he tried his best to cross mountains and rivers, and then set fires and rapes. But no matter what I do, I can't seem to break the law or go to jail in the city. When he climbed to the top of the mountain to masturbate, an unexpected move made him get his wish. But when he walked out of prison a few years later, he found that the gate of Tarping had been opened.

Daughter Goes to Town

Daughter Goes to Town

General Fiction

Chen Cang

85K0

This book contains two novellas: "The Daughter Goes to Town" and "The Empty Sparrow". As a reporter who had not been paid for several months, he was almost penniless. It was against this embarrassing background that his daughter suddenly came to the city to visit him. In order to save dozens of dollars on tickets, I had to go through the door and enter the zoo; in order to have a KFC meal with my daughter, I drank someone else's leftover Coke; in order to pay a fifty-yuan fine for violating the regulations, I used my daughter's private money hidden under the soles of my shoes; in order to take my daughter to take an elevator and visit my office, I was stopped downstairs by the security guard. People who work in the city can never integrate into the city. They seem to be so beautiful, but in fact they have unknown bitterness deep inside. The story ends: The daughter used matches to form the word "Dad", and he took out the matches and polished them. He had never been so afraid of the wind, and he covered it with his hands to guard the small flame.

Father's Later Life

Father's Later Life

General Fiction

Chen Cang

38K0

After burying my mother, my father rummaged around the house for a long time and found out the leftover pills that my mother had taken before she was alive, as well as a few pairs of cloth shoes, a few pairs of socks, a few pieces of clothing, including a mahogany comb with broken teeth, and piled them in the middle of the yard. He spent a long time with a lighter before lighting a fire. The clothes and combs burned easily, igniting blue flames and quickly burned to ashes. The soles of shoes are made of plastic, the buttons of clothes should also be made of plastic, and the pills used to treat heart disease are unknown. When combined together, they are extremely difficult to burn and very pungent when soaked. On this early winter evening, our entire Talping village was filled with the smell of this kind of boiled traditional Chinese medicine. The smoke was also very thick, covering half of the village. I say it's my mother. In fact, my mother passed away thirty years ago at the age of thirty-nine, and my father was in his forties.

Wheat Enters the City

Wheat Enters the City

General Fiction

Chen Cang

72K0

This book contains two novellas: "Wheat Enters the City" and "Rabbit Skin". A little girl ran away from home and went to the city to look for her father. In order to prevent his daughter from seeing the gloom of the city, the father made various arrangements in fear, but something happened to his daughter in the massage room... The novel describes Shanghai at night, unknown little people, and many heavy social phenomena - regional discrimination, the absurdity of urban people, and the physiological depression of migrant workers. It stages scenes of urban melodrama of rural people moving into the city. In the end, my daughter still sighed: Shanghai is very clean. This is the power of love, this is beautiful life.