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Chen Yingsong attracted widespread attention and praise after he opened the column "Shen Nong's Wild Notes" in "Zhongshan" magazine. He was named one of the top ten essays in the "2022 China Annual Literary Ranking" by "Yangtze River Literary Review". This book is a collection of this column. This is a book that takes Shennongjia as an object, thinking about and describing forest nature, ecology and humanities. Chen Yingsong has lived and written in Shennongjia for a long time, and is familiar with the local customs, strange stories, and exotic flowers and plants. In particular, he has devoted himself to thinking about forests, nature, and ecology. His condensation is profound, broad and wise, his language is majestic and beautiful, and his knowledge is broad and rich. This is a book that understands and describes nature and forests. It is also a vast book that embodies the humanities and natural history of Shennongjia. It is a thick and heterogeneous work of contemporary ecological literature.

In the form of reportage, this book tells the story of experts from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, represented by Ma Shijun and Chen Yonglin, who carried out research and practice on locust eradication in locust-prone areas such as Hongze Lake and Weishan Lake. With diligence and perseverance, they composed touching songs about locust control. The book details the life stories, thoughts, achievements and evaluations of the scientists in "Locust Control Heroes" as well as the evaluations of them by future generations. It shows the legendary lives of generations of Chinese scientists who control locusts and benefit all mankind and the great spirit of scientifically serving the country. In this country with a long history of farming, locust plague is no longer a dark nightmare.

The novel "Tianlu Bay" takes the forty years of reform and opening up as the background. It describes the long and arduous entrepreneurial history of farmers in the Jianghan Plain to get rid of poverty and become rich through struggle. It panoramically reproduces the great transformation process of contemporary China's rural areas. In Tianluwan Village on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, by Tianlu Lake, two generations of Communist Party members and village party secretary Hong Jiasheng and his daughter, and rural expert Jin Mancang and his son, worked together to overcome many difficulties and created the miracle of grape planting in the south of the Yangtze River. They vigorously developed the grape industry, thus leading the villagers to win the battle against poverty and achieve common prosperity. The novel depicts many vivid images of farmers, depicts touching stories of farmers supporting each other, sharing joys and sorrows, and changing their destiny. It eulogizes the great creativity and pioneering spirit of Chinese farmers under the guidance of the Communist Party of China on the difficult road to prosperity and prosperity through hard work. The language of the novel is smart and full of vitality, and it truly and delicately interprets the simple moral customs, living customs, and regional culture of the people in the Jingjiang River Basin, with a strong local flavor. This is a realistic masterpiece that grasps the pulse of the times with emotion and heart and sings the main theme of the times.

The county must use their car to take me back to the provincial capital. I knew what they meant. They sent me safely out of Aangze County, successfully preventing me from watching the election in Jiancun, and blocking me from the truth. They were relieved. When we left, the trunk of the car was filled with various local specialties, including a box of wild wild rice, a bottle of wine, six boxes of frozen crayfish, frozen fish, two bags of chili sauce and stinky tofu, etc. Lao Ma repeatedly told me that I must put it in the refrigerator within eight hours, otherwise it will spoil. In other words, I have to get to my home in the provincial capital within eight hours. What else can I say for these six boxes of frozen produce? Will I turn around halfway and go to Jiancun again? No. Besides, the election is over, what else can I watch? In addition, the car belongs to them and they said they would take me back, which was equivalent to escorting me. Of course I had to go back.

A selection of novellas written by writer Chen Yingsong over the past 15 years. It includes the essence of the "Shennonjia Series of Novels" and the "Jingzhou Series of Novels". Including "Mouse-Free House", "A Man's Experience", "Peace Dog", "Why the Jay Cry" which won the Lu Xun Literature Award, "Rabid Incident", "Mass Ridge Murder" and "The Leopard's Last Dance" which are being adapted into movies. Whether it is the Shennongjia series or the Jingzhou series, those sharp words accurately hit the heart of the times. Depressed, sad, and sentimental, in the absurd, desperate, and black-toned narrative, he writes about the panic that the times have brought to individuals. None of these works has aroused great repercussions, and was called "the most charming contemporary text" by the famous writer Zhang Wei.

In the vast forests of the Gulu Mountains in northern Hubei, there are many strange peaks, hundreds of animals roaming, and all things growing. Grandfather Ji Laoquan, uncle Magu and Houwa, three generations of the family, lived a hard and peaceful life like the mountain people who have lived here for generations, until the village chief brought the news that Tianyin Airport was about to break ground here. This is a historic moment. From then on, people are noisy and the forest is silent: wild animals begin to flee, villages begin to be demolished, rivers begin to be dammed, and forests begin to fall. The heavy tracks of bulldozers bury seeds and roots that have lived for thousands of years into the ground, and they will last forever. No longer growing... Grandfather said that without fields, there must be people alive, so uncle Magu and Houwa left Yichang to find a way out in the city. At the same time, the female doctor Hua Xian came to the forest alone. The depression she couldn't get rid of was related to the entanglement of fame and fortune in the academic circle. Chen Yingsong, a famous writer in Hubei Province, uses a romantic picture of all living beings rising in the "eight hundred miles of strange mountains" in the Chu region to create a poem for nature and speak for the forest, reaffirming the "forest stance" of literature and questioning the sorrow of reality. After all the dust is gone, the Cangshan Mountains will never grow old, and the silent forest contains the hope of salvation. Every plant, tree, bird and beast there has its own dignity. With this magnificent and beautiful novel, Chen Yingsong completed his declaration of entry into the forest, and also gave Chinese literature a forest that confronts the noisy world.

This is a typical petition. The winery of laid-off worker Diao Youfu was flooded, and he was beaten violently by the shareholders, causing one of his kidneys to break. He began a long and difficult journey to appeal. What he didn't expect was that a simple thing became more and more complicated and jaw-dropping... Diao Youfu couldn't find his home in the year of the flood. His home was flooded. Diao Youfu was on a pier in Silt Village. Diao Youfu was walking at night when he kicked something. He leaned over and touched it with his hands. It was a dead body, drowned. After walking a few more steps, he stumbled again, and there was another dead man. It's like in a dream. No flashlight. He doesn't smoke and doesn't have a lighter. At that time, lighters were not as common as they are now, but they were still used. The problem is that he never carries a lighter because he doesn't smoke. He makes wine, but he doesn't drink wine himself.