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The long documentary "Going to Beichuan" is based on the author's observations, records and thoughts while working in Beichuan from 2021 to 2022. It starts from individual insights, combines indirect experience, integrates anthropology, sociology and other contents, and analyzes Beichuan's history, humanities, and nation. It vividly writes about memory, geographical changes, customs and traditions, and realistic development, and achieves the combination of history and aesthetics, the unity of people's nature and the nature of the times, and the coordination of literature and knowledge. It is a masterpiece of long-form documentary literature that reflects the great changes in mountains and villages in the new era.

This book takes the banner people and their literature in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China as the research object, places them in the relevant context of politics, economy, society, military and even international relations, and launches a dialogue on cross-cultural, historical and regional studies; it observes the evolution of emotions, thoughts, identity and aesthetic pursuits experienced by the banner people in the context of the times, and elucidates the universal significance of banner human literature. A century of transformation from cicada to butterfly has opened up the narrative and lyricism, spiritual world and spiritual space of the banner people, from Mandarin riding and shooting to Manchu and Han family, from the partition of the banner people to the Chinese national community. In the historical transformation of adapting to local conditions, changing customs and creating a people's republic, it narrates the establishment of modern Chinese emotions and national identity.