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Hou Baozhai, a beach builder at Xinjin Sandu Water Wharf, worked hard for many years and became the chief helmsman in western Sichuan. During the vigorous road protection movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Hou Baozhai was ordered to lead a hundred thousand comrades in a bloody battle against the Qing army. In the end, he was killed by a traitor and the revolution failed. "Big Pier" grandly displays the grudges and hatreds of Paoge society, the glory and tragedy of Big Pier, and the rise and development of the Sichuan revolutionary movement. It depicts many small characters with distinctive personalities in the big background. It is their joys and sorrows, separations and entanglements of love and hate that are intertwined into a colorful and shocking tragic picture.

The novel uses the fictional Zaojiang County, a small county with unique tourism resources, as the main environment for the characters' activities. It makes powerful reflections and interrogations on the current urbanization process, rural revitalization, industrial development, quality education, and the living conditions of various people. The novel develops an important plot around the development of a large-scale rural tourism project. Beautiful countryside is not only about building houses and developing industries, but more importantly, revitalizing the spiritual world and ideology of villagers. In the face of money and interests, morality and perseverance, all kinds of characters appear on the stage.