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The original novel of the movie "Youth" directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Huang Xuan! The story takes place in the army art troupe in the 1970s. From the perspective of female soldier Xiao Suizi, it revolves around a series of events caused by the male soldier Liu Feng being punished for a "touching incident". It tells the different fates of Liu Feng and four female soldiers after the incident. Liu Feng was sent to the logging company; later he went to the battlefield and became a combat hero, losing his right arm; after he retired from the army, he lived in a miserable life, and finally died of cancer. He Xiaoman has always been ostracized by everyone, and was later transferred to a field hospital. He became a model figure, but suffered from schizophrenia; even "I" (Xiao Suizi) was ostracized after being exposed for writing a love letter; including Lin Dingding and Hao Shuwen, their fates were also cruel. None of the characters in the novel has a truly happy ending, and no one is a real winner. This kind of disillusionment seems to all originate from that betrayal in youth, "Why did we love betraying others so much? Why didn't we feel that betrayal was shameless, but felt that it was justice?" Spiritual introspection emerges from time to time in the novel, reflecting on the times and human nature.

Yan Geling is a writer and screenwriter, a former female soldier in literature and art, and has played a variety of roles on stages all over the country. She understands that life is like a drama. By reading and appreciating the stories of each "character" in the book, we may be able to play our own "character" in the drama of life and add another bargaining chip. "Jiao'er" includes ten selected short and medium-length novels by Yan Geling, including "The Story of Little Gu Yan", "Jiao'er", "Lime Bird", "Good Baby", "Old Prisoner" and "Whose Family Has a Young Girl". The author casts a female perspective into the vast historical memory, and writes about the human boundaries of small and medium-sized people in the great era with compassion and sharp writing. Zhu Yijin, who has a rough life, Xiao Gu, a good wife and mother, and Pan Qiaoqiao, a smart and beautiful girl... Although they shouted hard and struggled desperately, they eventually irreversibly went to destruction, showing the cruel indifference of human nature, the helplessness of fate, and revealing the heaviness and pain of life.

Xu Wanjiang, the protagonist of the novel, is a woman struggling in the whirlpool of material and spiritual things. She and her husband were both dancers in the military area. Although they were poor, they were a happy couple. In order to let the family live a decent life, she discussed divorcing her husband and married a wealthy old American man she met by chance. For more than ten years, she quietly made money and immigrated her husband and children to the United States. Subconsciously, they hoped to save money to buy their own house and then kick the old man away and live a materially wealthy life of their own. However, in fact they couldn't do it. The husband spent all his wife's money but the investment failed, so he had to return to China disappointed. But Wan Jiang had to continue to suffer in despair, for the sake of her daughter or something she didn't know.

The most innocent and special Suiko story. Yan Geling switched to animal themes and opened up another kind of writing about human nature. With plenty of love and compassion, everyone can have a zoo in their lifetime. In these nine essays and two novels, we see the humble and helpless Officer Yan. The total residents of Suiko's zoo over the years are as follows: Sombra and Penny are cats. The gift is also a cat: the cat given to grandma by grandma. Xiao Huang is a little sparrow. Ma Hua'er is a flying reed chicken. The little swallow was the first animal Suizi raised. Hans is the pig king. Ke Liya, Zhuang Zhuang, Zhang Jinfeng, Li Dalong and Ke Ren are all dogs, and their identities are thieves, refugees, farmers and Tibetans respectively. Suiko is Director Yan. It's the little girl wearing an umbrella and flower bragi. He is a natural word wizard. She is a female writer who has moved around the country and abroad as an adult, but is always merciful to animals. An animal keeper who cares deeply about all living things.

The TV series of the same name stars Sun Li, Jiang Wu, Yan Xuejing and others. "Aunt Duohe" tells the story of the fate of the 16-year-old girl Duohe, a Japanese orphan at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, who was sold to a family in the Northeast as a "tool" to carry on the family line. With an in-depth and sophisticated grasp of contemporary Chinese history and the broad vision of a transnational writer, the author expresses the lives and cries of small people in the context of the great era. This is a rare work with rich and charming meaning, open-minded and broad-minded. The female writer Yan Geling has won many awards for it.

[Exclusive first release on the entire network, exclusive customized version for WeChat Reading] The most innocent and special Suiko story. Yan Geling switched to animal themes and opened up another kind of writing about human nature. With plenty of love and compassion, everyone can have a zoo in their lifetime. In these nine essays and two novels, we see the humble and helpless Officer Yan. The total residents of Suiko's zoo over the years are as follows: Sombra and Penny are cats. The gift is also a cat: the cat given to grandma by grandma. Xiao Huang is a little sparrow. Ma Hua'er is a flying reed chicken. The little swallow was the first animal Suizi raised. Hans is the pig king. Ke Liya, Zhuang Zhuang, Zhang Jinfeng, Li Dalong and Ke Ren are all dogs, and their identities are thieves, refugees, farmers and Tibetans respectively. Suiko is Director Yan. It's the little girl wearing an umbrella and flower bragi. He is a natural word wizard. She is a female writer who has moved around the country and abroad as an adult, but is always merciful to animals. An animal keeper who cares deeply about all living things.

"Residence in Buyu Mountain" (the original novel of "You Are Many Years Late") is Yan Geling's first brand-new masterpiece that provides a perspective on contemporary Chinese society! "Buyu Mountain Residence" is like the "New Longmen Inn" in contemporary China. It is a microcosm of China's changes. Various characters are wandering around in the increasingly expanding city, and more and more people are flocking here, using this place as a temporary residence. City people rush to the countryside in search of so-called tranquility and avoid the "smoke" of the city. Amidst the chaos, the shrewd and aggressive proprietress relied on her strength and maneuverability to move forward and retreat freely, and managed the "Buyu Mountain Residence" in a spectacular manner. A series of fascinating stories and vivid faces appear on the page, reproducing the changes in China's cities and villages in the past thirty years and the obsession with the transformation of human nature...

"Bohemian House" is a collection of essays by writer Yan Geling, which includes all the essays and speeches she has published so far. There are four parts in total: Bohemian House, African Notes, Linglong's Heartfelt Words, and Creative Talk. The Bohemian Building mainly tells various stories about Yan Geling's many years of living overseas, from studying abroad to getting married; Notes on Africa mainly describes what Yan Geling saw and heard in Africa when she followed her diplomat husband on a mission to Africa; Linglong's Heartfelt Stories is about some stories that happened when Yan Geling was writing her novel; and the last part of Creation Talk is the text of the speeches she gave at various university award ceremonies. In general, "Bohemian House" is a true portrayal of Yan Geling's real life. It spans a long time and covers a wide range of content. It very truly shows Yan Geling's life experience and all aspects.

As the most unique of Yan Geling's self-selected novels and short stories, "Taiko" tells the story of a girl's growth and is a collection of Yan Geling's autobiographical novels. The titles include: "Sister Liu La", "Old Man", "Jiao Er Zhu Yijin", "Dark Shadow", "The Story of Xiao Gu Yan", "Pear Blossom Epidemic", "Slipper Brigade", "Gray Dance Shoes", "Wizard", "Mouse" and "I am not an Elf". Eleven short stories and short stories. Various people and events in the protagonist Suiko's growth, including childhood relatives, childhood companions, and teenage crushes. The rebellious young girl is entangled in the troubled times of revolution, turmoil, destruction, and sexual enlightenment, but the writing style is light and simple. A rare combination of female vision, historical memory and personal experience, sublimated because of the narrative.

"Is the Psychologist Here" is the confession of a middle-aged woman. In a euphemistic narrative, it shows the scars and suffering of the country and the love, hate, anger and obsession of the individual. A forty-five-year-old Chinese woman who spoke broken English confided her past to an American psychiatrist. It is full of her thirty-nine-year love for her father's friend "Uncle He", the grudges between her father and Uncle He before and after the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution, and her romantic entanglement with her professor after she traveled to the United States... But the treatment was not over yet, and the woman had drifted away. This book (originally titled "Human World") is Yan Geling's masterpiece. It won the prestigious Taiwan Times Million Award in the Chinese-speaking region in the late 1990s and the Shanghai Literature Award in 2000. She also became the second female writer to win this honor after Zhu Tianwen, which caused a sensation and made the author a highly regarded female writer in the Chinese-speaking region more than ten years ago. The structure of this book seemed bold at the time, and its subject matter is still fashionable today. This is what classic literary and artistic works have in common - they never go out of style. Taiwanese writer and publisher Zhan Hongzhi commented: "A euphemistic and touching novel like this has an earth-shattering historical background... But the real story is of a little girl... Until she crossed the ocean and came to the United States, until she became a middle-aged woman, this hidden love never faded in her life, and even became the keynote of her character and destiny. Don't rush to regard the novel as history... Like the eighty-one catastrophes in "Journey to the West", we see a gentle but strong female story."

Before the young girl Qiaoqiao had a chance to take a look at the bustling city, she was deceived into a deserted station. It turns out that she was a daughter-in-law bought by a worker with money, and she was shared by two brothers. After dreams, warmth, and the last bit of dignity were cruelly torn apart by reality, Qiaoqiao raised the kitchen knife. When she escapes to a small border station, the feminine charm shines with its final glory in a world composed entirely of men.

"White Snake" is one of the self-selected editions of Yan Geling's classic short stories and short stories, including "White Snake", "Also Adam and Eve", "Magic Dan", "White Sparrow" and "Stories in School". Main article "White Snake": During the Cultural Revolution, the famous actress Sun Likun was "suppressed" for starring in "White Snake" and was imprisoned in a dilapidated set room. She who once captivated all sentient beings gradually became vulgar and numb due to long-term mental oppression and harsh living conditions. In October, a young man wearing an old yellow woolen military uniform came and often stopped under her window. Soon the girl who was guarding her informed that someone from her superiors would come to investigate... Yan Geling told the story in poetic and exquisite language, giving a new interpretation to the ancient relationship between men and women; the indescribable and faintly painful love revealed the secluded human nature in extraordinary times.

The story took place in Shanghai during the Anti-Japanese War. The heroine Mei told it to a biographer in her later years: In Shanghai in 1939, Mei fell in love with a Jewish man who had just escaped from a concentration camp and landed ashore. At that time, Joseph Messinger's infamous "ultimate solution" was about to be implemented. In order to let her lover go to the United States, Mei temporarily caught a savior in Shanghai - another young American - to be her husband. In troubled times, little people began a series of fateful rescues. In the end, Mei used her "lover's" money to redeem her "husband" and used her "husband's" passport to escape her "lover". At the same time, she realized love by destroying her original understanding and belief in love... The ending of the story is unexpected and sad in the love part. This work is another fresh and successful attempt by Yan Geling in terms of subject matter, writing techniques and female character creation. At the same time, the novel continues the author's unique self-narrative and visual narrative style.

"The Ninth Widow" is an important masterpiece of the famous female writer Yan Geling, and it is also her transformational work. The work tells the legendary story of a widow named Wang Putao in the Central Plains who hid her landowner father-in-law during the land reform period. The time spans from the 1940s to the 1980s. The grand historical narrative is combined with the personal legendary experience, and the profound feelings of helping the world are combined with the rich flavor of life. Wang Putao is one of the most radiant female characters in Yan Geling's works. She is powerful and arrogant, persevering and charming. Her indiscriminate benevolence and all-embracing generosity make her transcend all conflicts of interest in the world. The plot of the novel unfolds from the gap between Putao's role as a child bride to cover her father-in-law's filial piety, and her strong lust as a widow to have secret love with different men. It depicts the brilliance of human nature and embodies the true energy and origin of the folk land.

Shuang Jiang, a girl who came out of the countryside, walked into a compound with youthful shyness and calmness. The courtyard reveals its nature as a madhouse in its blissful enjoyment. Not long after, the beauty of frost added to the melancholy. Time passes easily, vicissitudes accumulate, sorrows and joys pass by, and it is difficult to express deep feelings. The mutual revenge between enemies is the love and affection of injustice... In this family, in this world, love leads to death, and resentment leads to life.

Youth is a topic that will never go out of style in any era. "To Youth", "The Year in a Hurry", "Little Times"... Childhood, youth, memories, and nostalgia are popular words at the moment. Ji Xianlin, Wang Zengqi, Wang Meng, Zhou Guoping, Wang Xiaobo, Lin Qingxuan, Jiang Qingchu, Xia Zhengzheng... From the beginning of the last century to the 1990s, each generation has its own youth story, and each era has its own youth theme. The chats and laughter of literati in troubled times, the iron-blooded tenderness under the flames of war, the old memories in the fields and alleys, the sweet dreams of young students about the future, the chance encounters when the moonlight first comes up... Literature easily penetrates the boundaries of life, allowing time to flow back and forth between the author's fingers, so that youth will never pass away.

During the Cultural Revolution, a group of young girls were sent to the desolate prairie in northwest China. They formed a sacred and solemn collective, the Women's Horse Herding Class, to herd military horses in the harsh grassland climate and environment. The story begins with "Xiao Dian'er", a beautiful girl who has committed incest, theft, and murder, mixed into the women's horse herding class, and observes this female monk-like group from her perspective. Their youth and life were stifled by the absurd sublimity and holiness, and their young bodies and souls were ultimately given to the altar of the so-called "ideal".

A Chinese girl who studies alone in Chicago lives in poverty, relying on part-time jobs and meager scholarships to survive. By chance, she falls in love at first sight with the American diplomat Andre, and the two quickly fall in love. Surprisingly, their love was not smooth sailing, but faced many obstacles. This is all due to her background as a Chinese soldier, making this love affair a potential political risk in the eyes of the US Department of Security. The FBI's tireless investigation caused her to lose her job in a Chinese restaurant. Forced by embarrassment, she began to question the motives of her feelings for Andre. At this time, the appearance of the artistic geek Lyon brought her a touch of Chinese comfort. She began to swing between the two men, betrayal and nostalgia, confusion and pain. How should she find her own way out?

"Wuchuan is a Yellow Girl" is a collection of short and medium-length novels by the writer Yan Geling. It includes a total of six overseas story series written by Yan Geling, including the main titles "Wuchuan is a Yellow Girl", "Amanda", "Maroon Hair", "Tropical Rain", "Container Village" and "Suane Mei". These six short stories and short stories closely follow the overseas theme, telling the sadness of those Chinese living overseas who are incompatible with the Western world with different social cultures, but try their best to integrate.

A masterpiece that is like the prelude to "Youth". It is Yan Geling's recollection of the past and her account of youth! On the verge of death, literary and artistic female soldier Tao Xiaotong recalled the past. Wang Yesheng, the league secretary who sacrificed his life to save her, Captain Liu who gave up his future for the existence of the propaganda team, Xu Beifang, who was glib but moved her heart, Sun Mei, the female squad leader who loved and hated her... In this propaganda team where everyone seemed busy sweeping the floor, flushing toilets, and feeding pigs, the sentimental Tao Xiaotong seemed so different. No matter how hard she trains, it is difficult for her to "mature" like others. So, she decided to harden her heart and transform from the timid girl in the past into a tenacious female warrior.

Why did Duan Kaiwen, the favored man of heaven, enter the casino? His decadent demeanor can even attract the artist Shi Qilan, who lures casino pawns and smuggles smugglers. Will his genius' spirituality eventually destroy or save himself? But in fact, as the opposite pole in the casino and the feminine in the gender world, Mei Xiaoou is a shameless gambler. She gambles with her youth on love and her emotions on humanity, gambling until she loses all her money. Everything she strives for and pursues is gone. The money is gone, the house is sold, and her lover leaves. Although her arson behavior stops her son from going to the casino, it ultimately leaves behind hidden worries about the relationship between mother and son.

Junior Sister Sang Yin has no memory of going down the mountain; beating people without blinking an eye; eating without giving money. Having just been kicked out of the sect by her second senior brother, Zhao Youling touched her sore buttocks and thought about how to complain to her senior sister. The next moment, Zhao Youling's head went blank and he shouted three fatal words, "Who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do?" The infatuated actor disappeared from the Zhenguo Palace; the Buddhist flowers from the previous dynasty were left behind in the Gushan Ancient Temple; bloody mistakes were repeated on the border battlefield; Sang Yin's secrets that could not enter the world... These incidents one after another are really a headache. Zhao Youling felt that she had been cheated. But, this prince's food tastes pretty good, and I have a affinity with it, so I want to eat it.

[The original novel of Zhang Yimou's latest movie "Return"] Lu Yanshi was originally a talented man from a wealthy family in Shanghai. He was smart, suave, and good at pleasing women. After his father passed away, his stepmother, who was young and had no heirs, used both soft and hard tactics to make him marry her niece Wanyu in order to consolidate his position in the family. Lu Yanzhi, who had no love, soon went abroad to study. After returning to China after graduation, Dr. Lu Yanshi began a romantic and proud life as a university professor, and also began an awkward family life caught between his charming and shrewd stepmother and his gentle but tough wife. In the 1950s, Lu Yanzhi became a "counter-revolutionary" because of his background and his ignorance of worldly affairs. In various movements, his pedantic and ridiculous bookishness caused his sentence to be extended again and again, until he was sentenced to life. This highly intelligent doctor studying in the United States has been transforming the northwest desert for twenty years with his extremely high knowledge. Ruminating on prosperity for half his life in silence made him confirm his deep love for euphemism. Euphemism was once the beginning of his lack of taste, but in his memory it became his perfect destination...