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It selects the prose works written by the writer Xu Zechen in the past twenty years, including the review of his childhood and hometown, his feelings about the world and people's hearts, his understanding of traveling in the world, and his cognition and reflection on literature and art. The themes are rich and diverse.

Marking the soul vision of the "post-70s" generation, even if they hit a wall and break, they must be an "egg" who bravely confronts the inherent reality. This is a new self-selected collection of prose essays by Lu Xun Literature Award winner Xu Zechen. "Starting from an Egg" is a new self-selected collection of prose essays by Xu Zechen, a powerful writer born in the 1970s and winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award and the Lao She Literature Award. The author personally selected 38 classic prose essays from his 22-year writing career, covering life growth, urban and rural stories, hometown feelings, Chinese and foreign literary reviews, prefaces and postscripts, and many other articles. They are divided into two volumes. The text is rich in texture, bright and clear, and the emotions are sincere but not overwhelming. This book is a collection of masterpieces selected from the author's prose essays. The author has collected a series of prose classics published successively into one volume, so that more readers can understand the author's life course and spiritual world. The focus of the first volume is to find the mental journey and innocence of the generation born in the 1970s when they face China's earth-shaking changes. The second volume is mainly based on what I saw and heard in foreign countries and my thoughts after reading Western literature and biographies. Reading experiences and book reviews from Marquez to Calvino, from Faulkner to Kafka are also included. The entire collection of essays reflects the author's spiritual casting history from a literary youth to a well-known writer.

"Purple Rice" is one of Xu Zechen's "Hometown" series of novels. Sixteen-year-old Mu Mu fled his hometown and came to Lantang Town, where he guarded Miku with Lan's elder Shen He. Because he accidentally stumbled into the affair between Shen He and the third concubine of the Lan family, Shen He recommended him to the third concubine as a handyman in the name of taking care of him. In the Lan family compound, Mu Mu saw many strange things: a master who didn't care about family matters and stayed in a huge cat cage all day long to hang out with cats, a young master and a young lady who fell in love with the same man at the same time... The strangest thing was Shen He, who obviously had a good relationship with his third aunt, but he still tried his best to marry the eldest lady. Finally, during the wedding salute of Shen He and Miss, a cannonball blew up the solemn Lan family compound into ruins...

This book focuses on a generation of Chinese young people born in the 1970s. It begins with an atonement-style gathering held by five young people who grew up by the canal, and connects the lives of different cities and regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, hometown and abroad. It aims to deeply explore the spiritual context of this generation in the process of rapid modernization and urbanization through the honest description of their parents' and their own personal experiences, as well as the unique living conditions and problems and confusions they have shown as they grow up. As the growth history of the post-70s generation and the spiritual history of a generation, "Jerusalem" is an important summary of the writer's life experience and literary experience. It is also a landmark work for the post-70s writers to mature, and is a very ambitious full-length work for the post-70s writers.

This is one of the masterpieces of novels by Xu Zechen, a writer born in the 1970s who has attracted much attention in the literary world in recent years. Chen Munian, a senior who is about to graduate, was appreciated by his teacher for his talent and was supposed to be admitted to postgraduate studies. However, because he wanted to "run away" and fabricated a murder incident, he was expelled from the school and his degree certificate and graduation certificate were withheld. This was supposed to be a big lesson, but when the train in the town was put into trial operation and the little neighbor Qin Ke took the initiative to express his love, Chen Munian, who was obsessed with running away, suddenly got on the train and roared away, leaving Qin Ke stunned and angry. After returning from wandering for a period of time, he and Qin Ke became estranged. Chen Munian became friends with the wise and mysterious Hanafang old man Xu, and met the honest and straightforward painter Jin Xiaoyi. They both died in pain and itching, and they died absurdly and reasonably. By chance, under the "care" of professor Shen Jingbai, he stayed in school as a temporary worker, and finally obtained two certificates four years later.

He escaped three times and took the night train three times. For the first time, in order to escape from the small town, he deceived his parents and took a train to see the outside world. The second time, in order to escape the life of a temporary worker, he chased the train, boarded the train and wandered around a strange city. The third time, in order to escape the desperate situation, he boarded the train again and ran away completely... The train carried him to the distance. During the escape again and again, he repeatedly tortured himself and pursued the life he wanted. Open "Night Train" and bid farewell to a life where you can see the end at a glance!

Outside the train station, there are crowds of Beipiao people who stay overnight in the square. They come to Beijing to make money and want to live a good life; there are a group of young people who have just got off work at the roadside stalls. They eat Malatang, drink Yanjing beer, and are full of imagination about the future; in the rental house, there are old people who come to visit their sons. They have left their hometown where they have lived for half their lives and relearn how to integrate into city life;... We have experienced unspeakable embarrassment in Beijing, and we have also experienced the most shining moments in life. The reasons that once made me drift to Beijing are still my pursuits.