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"The Blossoming of the Saints" is a companion volume to "The Blossoming of Judas". The story took place during the fourteen-day filming process of the cultural feature film "Rewalking the Road to Sainthood". The film crew shot a feature film along the route that Confucius traveled around the world. This culturally packaged commercial action is of course an eye-catching popular event with a secular flavor. The contradictions, conflicts of ideas, and complex accidents of the various characters involved during the period have all been "revealed" here. "Extraordinary" opportunity... This novel, which integrates plot suspense, character entanglement, psychological analysis and concept conflict, has the possibility of being expected, understood and dissected by readers - these elements in "The Blossom of the Saint" coexist and grow together in the logic of life, causing each other, and integrating the outside and inside. Character relationships, personalities, and plots are often deduced in "Ningba", and unexpected new "Ningba" burst out at any time. The protagonist's wisdom of "taking advantage of one's own tactics" is one of the "perpetual motion machines" that make this dramatic and suspenseful novel one that makes people unable to put it down. As a cultural person, he can assess the situation and make unexpected moves, use strategies to resolve "crises" one by one, and advance his cultural ideas towards the goal with difficulty one by one. The suspense of the novel's plot, the interest of the situation, the sharpness of the words, and the in-depth thinking about culture naturally stem from the implementation and changes of people's various strategies.

This is a novel that expresses the rich picture of social life in the contemporary reform period. The author focuses on the various mentalities and behaviors displayed by a group of contemporary cultural people in the face of the economic tide. They are either riding the wave, falling behind, or hesitating and entangled. They are full of wisdom, pedantry, numbness, comedy and other colors. It also highlights the inevitable logic of the reform era. Some well-known domestic critics have unanimously compared "Judas Blossoms" with "The Scholars" and "The Story of the Editorial Office" and fully affirmed the observation and thinking reflected in its relaxed and interesting plots and character stories, leading readers to feel the main theme of the reform era and the surging passion that stirred people's hearts from the specific perspective of a cultural person.