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"If you take seven steps out, you will encounter ten enemies." This is a proverb in Qibu Town and a metaphor for history and reality. The novel is written from the perspective of the writer Dong Sheng, who, as a patient with amnesia, unexpectedly learns about his past life experiences in the process of seeking medical treatment: he was a bandit when he was born around the Republic of China and killed countless people; he later joined Hu Zongnan's army; he was defeated in the battle against the Japanese in Zhongtiao Mountain; he later became a horse breeding expert and died in a vendetta. The author attempts to use the novel style of "returning to the past life" to penetrate history, reflect on life, and expand people's psychological and spiritual space.

Behind her sister Fengyu is her brother Yingbing. The two of them were crawling, one behind the other. The rain in the latter half of the night only wetted the ground, and the road surface was just soft and slippery, suitable for crawling. However, after only climbing five or six meters, Ying Bing lowered her head and became silent. Fengyu also stopped, leaning her face on the back of her hands and panting. A few minutes later, Fengyu remembered that she was her sister, gritted her teeth and got up again. She tapped the ground with her toes, but Ying Bing had no reaction. She thought, it's broken, Ying Bing's silk is broken, first her father's silk is broken, then her brother's silk is broken, it seems that the man's silk is the silk, and it will break when it is broken. She planned to go home and tell her mother before coming out. At this time, Ying Bing raised her head and smiled at her, with a few pieces of mud in her smile. The two crawled forward again, looking quite confident. They knew that the alfalfa field was not far away, so they climbed out of the alley and turned north to reach it.

This book is the latest novel by Chen Jiming, winner of the Chinese Good Book of the Year and the National Five One Project Award. The novel takes the imperial painter of the Tang Dynasty as his main line and goes to Dunhuang in search of colors. It tells the history of Dunhuang, the process of the integration of Tuyuhun and Han people, and the folk secularization of Dunhuang caves. The novel breaks the limitations of ancient and modern time, the geographical limitations of the Central Plains, and the barriers between ethnic groups, and shows the huge spiritual space and irresistible charm of China contained in Dunhuang as one of the matrices of Chinese culture in a broader time and space. The novel continues to take advantage of Chen Jiming's characteristics of being good at narrative in small incisions and showing a broad historical vision and realistic context in the delicate relationship and psychology of characters, presenting readers with a full-length novel with advanced narrative skills and high artistic standards.

The 2021 China Good Book Award-winning book, "Ping An Piao" depicts a history of the struggle of overseas Chinese merchants in Chaoshan and "going to Nanyang". Zheng Mengmei shoulders the mission of reviving her family business. As she approaches middle age, she travels alone in Southeast Asia. In a foreign country, "Safety batch" unexpectedly became his life's work. The "foreign-style" contracts and credits, written down with a brush, will beat the "Chinese heart" that attaches great importance to love and justice. During the Anti-Japanese War, Mengmei and her relatives and friends understood deeply the righteousness of their family and country, and resolutely devoted themselves to the torrent of serving the motherland... Using the Ping An batch as a medium, the novel integrates the changes of a century of world affairs, profoundly describes the spiritual world of the people, and writes a "Chinese heart" that values ​​love, justice, patriotism and hometown.