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The main content of "Shanghai: New Cross Street": The development and changes of a city include external tangible material changes, internal intangible cultural and spiritual changes, and small changes that go unnoticed. The countless trivial and subtle changes that happened in the streets of New Cross Street in Shanghai contain rich history, culture and thoughts, and at the same time reflect the vitality of this city; tradition and fashion, secularity and elegance, coquettishness and reserve... They may conflict, merge, mutate, or be eliminated...

This book is a self-selected collection of short stories and short stories by the famous writer Ye Xin. It includes 9 novels: "One Tree Inn", "How to Feel Love", "Adventure in Old Age", "Lost", "Deep River Bridge", "Mingda's Marriage", "Beipan River", "Lao Liu in Big Mountain Cave" and "Beautiful Home". In the book, Ye Xin focuses on the lives and emotional conditions of ordinary people, pays attention to the shining points of ordinary people, and tries new ways of expressing novels such as WeChat dialogues. This book continues Ye Xin's consistent literary standards while showing a certain degree of innovation.

The novel describes the story of a group of Shanghai educated youth who went to remote mountainous areas of Guizhou to settle down in the 1970s. It takes the fate of Ke Bizhou and Du Jianchun as the main line and the emotional entanglements between Ke Bizhou, Du Jianchun and Shao Yurong as the basic plot. It vividly records the unforgettable "wasted years" spent by a generation of educated youth, and truly shows the twists and turns but the path they have taken to move forward.

The story takes place in Shanghai in the late 1980s. The novel shows another side of the life of educated youth from a new perspective. They once spent their "no regrets youth" in the beautiful Xishuangbanna, and then returned to the bustling metropolis of Shanghai one after another due to the trend of returning to the city. However, their children who stayed in Xishuangbanna never forgot their biological parents and came to Shanghai to find relatives, so a series of heart-stirring stories about love and reason, love and law happened.

The book is divided into four parts. The first part is about his career and the second part is about the past in the village. It describes the author Ye Xin's unforgettable life and what he saw and heard during the ten years from March 31, 1969, when he left Shanghai to settle in Shaguozhai, Jiuchang People's Commune, Xiuwen County, Guizhou Province, to October 31, 1979, when he left the place where he settled. The third volume is about mountains and rivers in Guizhou, and the fourth volume is about mountains and villages. It narrates the author's experiences and activities while working in Guizhou after leaving the village where he settled down, and depicts a vivid picture of Guizhou's landscapes. Through eloquent narration and peaceful words, it shows the author's pursuit in a wasted time and the true feelings of a generation of intellectuals towards the mountainous countryside of Guizhou.

1600, the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court troops invaded Hailongtun, and Yang Yinglong, the 29th chieftain of the Yang family in Bozhou, committed suicide. The Battle of Pingbo, known as one of the "Three Great Conquests of Wanli", came to an end. Huang Shansong is an ordinary calligraphy and painting teacher in a certain street in Shanghai. Although his job is not important, it is enough for him who loves painting to enjoy it and live a leisurely and comfortable life. After being introduced by a friend, Huang Shansong accidentally participated in an auction and witnessed with his own eyes how a blue and white porcelain vase was sold from 1.5 Million to 180 million. He couldn't sit still, and the past of his days as an educated youth in Guizhou came to mind. He once got a blue and white underglaze red plum porcelain vase given to the local chieftain king by Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty! That was the token of love between Yang Xinyi, a Banzhou woman who inherited the blood of the chieftain nobles and was "ghostly and enchanting"! They broke up in embarrassment thirty years ago, and there has been no news for thirty years. How can Huang Shansong find her and him?