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Mo Huaiqi is an excellent novelist with the attributes of a "cultural landmark" and an intellectual who has made creative contributions to regional cultural construction. As a university professor and as a civilian writer, he engaged in writing in a free sense, making him and his novels a unique cultural landscape in Chongqing and even the west. The author of this book has been engaged in the research of Mo Huaiqi's novels for a long time as a colleague and close friend. He has also conducted in-depth and extensive cultural explorations with Mo Huaiqi on many important issues related to the novels, and has recorded and accumulated a large amount of unique research materials. On this basis, a multi-level, multi-perspective and multi-faceted systematic interpretation of Mo Huaiqi's rural novels, detective mystery novels, urban romance novels and chivalrous novels is carried out. The book explores and reveals the regional cultural characteristics and artistic aesthetic characteristics of his novels, the construction of narrative ethics and the choice of narrative strategies in the novels, the awakening of historical consciousness, and the highlighting of Chongqing's cultural character in historical narratives. Such spiritual changes and cultural hidden meanings are explored and revealed in a unique and enlightening way. It is believed that not only The spiritual trend embodies the novelist's distinctive personal "growth" characteristics, and also reflects the cultural personality and evolution trajectory of Chongqing people's "growth". In particular, the chivalrous spirit that dares to resist the loss of poetry and the degradation of human nature as a regional cultural feature has been fully developed and interestingly performed in the world of Mo Huaiqi's novels.