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This book is a collection of essays with the author's hometown as the theme. The book includes 17 chapters, including "Father", "Old Men", and "Drama and Shadow". The content touches on relatives, hometown, and the soft and compassionate heart of people who have left their hometown. It describes the pain of the people in the hometown when they face the tribulations of life, and the joy of finding joy in their suffering. It also embodies the author's heaviness and lamentation due to leaving his hometown. It is worth savoring and savoring.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government established an art and cultural relic inspection team of the Ministry of Education headed by Wang Ziyun, which conducted field surveys and research on folk art and cultural relics in the northwest and other regions (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and Henan). The main research objects of this northwest survey are divided into four categories: sculpture, architecture, painting, and folk customs. The work project mainly starts from two main lines, namely: looking for the "field of art history" and looking for the "field of art." The Ministry of Education organized this Northwest expedition to conduct research on the history of unknown art. The results were fruitful, and the follow-up research lasted for a long time, which directly affected Wang Ziyun's academic orientation and research characteristics for the rest of his life. This book is a comprehensive and systematic study of this inspection activity.

Qian Yun has been free and uninhibited for more than ten years, indulgent and willful, and only bowed down to one person, but he became the bargaining chip of his bastard fiancé after he got drunk and lost a bet with others. His sweetheart betrayed him, his family ostracized him, and all his property was taken away, leading to a miserable end. In her rebirth, she will definitely get back everything she owes, and use all her strength to get close to the most powerful person in the world, just to block their path to glory and let them taste it.

In this book, the author uses the pen of prose to describe and record the events that happened in daily life that shocked and thought the author, and wrote a unremitting questioning of life with a poetic heart. The author is suspicious of the secular world, but reveals his infinite love for the secular world. Illness, loneliness, homesickness, nature, field ridges, even if the writer had no choice but to register his old uncle at a hospital in Beijing at a high price, and after the patient arrived all the way, the expert doctor took an unexplained break from work, the writer wrote about his hometown in the article, standing at the edge of the village, with an indescribable love for the fields, villages, scenery, and people, and a heart of gratitude for the ordinary life. Even when the writer writes about these trivial daily life, he has an unwillingness to stop writing, as if it is not enough to express the prosperity and replacement of forest trees in an oil painting without drawing the veins of fallen leaves in life. The author's narrative is very calm, and the pace of the pen is never messy or urgent due to the arrival of wind and rain.

The author uses the pen of prose to ask questions about life: Why is life like this? Why does everyone live as someone else? Why can I only see myself through the lives of others? Why do other people's roads always carry the marks of my feet? And on which road are the traces of myself that I'm looking for scattered on?

The author awakens the memory of his "hometown" that has been sleeping deep in his heart, making people recall the forgotten worldly life again, as well as the painful and bitter past, including the drifting away of rural customs.

"The Truth" is Liu Ting's new novel. The middle-aged Beidiao returned to his hometown and revealed the first half of his life in which he was exchanged: foster care in childhood, brother translocation, "I am two years younger than my brother." In real life, absurdity can be seen everywhere. The two brothers have been brooding over their pregnancy for half their lives, and in the blink of an eye they have reached middle age. The trend of the times is vigorous, and the wind, sword, and frost sword are urging each other urgently. The original short return home unexpectedly brings the two of them back to the same starting point of life. The mountain is high and the moon is small, everything is about to come to light...

This book contains four novellas, each written about a contemporary woman of different ages spanning the city and the countryside. The author named them respectively after "Plum Blossoms, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum". They spanned, wandered and made choices between urban and rural areas... Su Huilan, an ordinary 20-year-old young man, maintained a girlish mentality and tried hard to keep up with the times. She listened to poetry recitals, played Douyin, and from time to time had a spontaneous trip, and also shed sincere tears. The 30-year-old He Xiuzhu has overcome all kinds of obstacles and reefs and reached the middle of her life. With a graduate degree and a positive enthusiasm for life, she has squeezed into the middle class of big cities. Her life is full of the bloody stories that are common in this era. When choosing a house and a school, she seems to be a low-end version of "Gu Jia", always having to fight with all her strength. 40-Year-old Wei Xiaoju is not glamorous. She pursues city life, divorces her husband, loves vanity, and steals from her employer. She is a person who is tempted by the distance and another life, but she is also pursuing her own ideals and yearning for a broader world. Yin Xuemei, 50, is an "aunt" who came to the city from the countryside because of her granddaughter. She formed a small group with the "aunt" in the same hospital who looked after her baby, observing, comparing, competing and cooperating with each other. These women are the myriad appearances of life, devoid of rational sophistication, floating on the heat of life, let alone critics and introspectors. They are among the fireworks in the market, beside each of us. They have inexplicable stubbornness and brutal energy, and they can move around in the cracks, and each of them is "alive and living grandly."

A young herdsman decided to leave the grassland and seek life in a foreign land. He knew that once he really left, he would live a completely different life from his father's generation, and he would only be able to return here by visiting relatives. He went to Dalian to study, traveled to Harbin, visited his younger brother in Hunchun, and visited Songyuan. Later, he studied writing and settled in Beijing, becoming one in 20 million. When a person reaches middle age, life seems like a dream, gatherings and separations are constant, and he feels infinite sadness. When he looked back on his journey, he thought most of his father and mother, the passionate duo in the desolation of the north, the birth of a lamb on the grassland, the silent support of his lover along the way, and the snowstorm in Inner Mongolia. We all live a difficult life, always gaining and losing at the same time, but in the end we "live out" - even so, there is always something that supports us to continue living. The thing that supports us is the silent love that is not mentioned in every sentence but is present in every sentence.