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Secret History of Western Hunan

Li Huaisun

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A novel in the style of a great encyclopedia of Xiangxi, a key to the mysterious door of Xiangxi, a picture depicting the various situations in Xiangxi, and an elegiac song that sings the nostalgia of Xiangxi. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Puyang Town, the most prosperous water dock in Western Hunan in the past, was going downhill. The two main merchants of the thirty-six shops in the west of Puyang Town, the Zhang family and the Liu family, were also gradually declining. Zhang Fuli, the son of the Zhang family, and Liu Jinlian, the daughter of the Liu family, had arranged a baby marriage, but Zhang Fuli's cheating on the spot angered Liu Jinlian, and the feud between the two began... This novel is used as the main line to describe the late Qing Dynasty. The picture of life in Yepuyang Town for nearly half a century, and the branches, leaves and vines derived from it, cover almost all aspects of social life in Western Hunan during this period, showing you a mysterious and real Xiangxi a hundred years ago. There are so many things in the world, thousands of threads, strange customs, and colorful...