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"Strong Wind Rises in Pingjiang" tells a touching story of the party and government of Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, an old revolutionary base, leading the people and organizing the people to be self-reliant, work hard, rebuild the country, and get rid of poverty. With real people and events as the background, it vividly depicts Yu Jie, an old Red Army cadre who took the initiative to quit his leadership position to build his hometown, Zeng Taiwu who established schools and emphasized education, Chen Songbai who founded the "Great Love Pingjiang" charity association, and other Pingjiang people. It shows the moving deeds of their long-term and arduous struggle to create a better life, creates a new path for poverty alleviation that can be learned and replicated, and presents a picture of the era of great changes in the countryside and beautiful mountains and rivers!

Pingshang Village is the author's hometown. The author left this village when he was sixteen, and the village became the background of his entire life. After wandering for thirty-eight years, he came back to repair the old house. The old house is the memory of a village. In the rich nostalgia, the story of Pingshang Village travels through the time and space of the village for hundreds of years, narrating the ups and downs of the fate of the previous generations of the village, the changes in society, and the disappearing customs...