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"Beijing, 20 Million People Pretend to Live" is the first novel by Zhang Wumao, the author of the explosive article. It is recommended by famous writers Jia Pingwa and Zhang Wei. It tells the spiritual dilemma of "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou cannot accommodate the body, and the third and fourth lines cannot accommodate the soul." When a woman reaches middle age, which one is the prison, marriage or aging? "Spring Sleep" can be regarded as a lonely book about Chinese-style marriage. It opens a corner of the times with the tragedy of a young couple slowly getting separated. Many years later, Tong Xin can always think of the afternoon when they escaped from the capital and returned to the city... Wherever there is a cage of reality, there is life in full bloom. The life that goes round and round is our journey from material abundance to spiritual freedom.

This book collects the prose essays written by Zhang Wumao in the past ten years, and has selected more than 40 articles from the 200 articles he published for publication. In this book, the author describes family affection and nostalgia, tells his thoughts and feelings about life, and comments on some social events. His words about his family and hometown are heartfelt and touching. The thoughts and feelings about life and the comments on social events are both humane and sophisticated, as well as precise and insightful. They are humorous but not vulgar, and rational but not pedantic.