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The Stars Are Shining Tonight

Iwanami

250K0

This book is a novel that tells the story of how a village in the northern plains became rich under the leadership of a wise man. The male protagonist is a retired soldier with five years of military service. He worked at the police station when he returned to the village, and soon went to sea. With the support of a female teacher from the barber shop in the town, he pulled up a team to do construction work. In the past five years, because of his long-term help to a disabled child, he was unexpectedly favored by an entrepreneur and gave him a big business, which gave him his first taste of success. In the past ten years, the company has grown bigger and bigger, but with it comes endless problems and worries...

Storm (Korean)

Storm (Korean)

General Fiction

Zhou Libo

356K0

From the founding of New China to 1966, it was a climax period for the creation and publication of novels in our country. In more than ten years, a large number of works have been published. "The Tempest" is one of the works that represents the achievement of novel creation in that period. The novel mainly reflects the entire process of land reform from 1946 to 1947 in a village named Yuanmaotun in Northeast China. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes how Yuanmaotun Village, under the leadership of the work team, defeated the bully landlord Han Laoliu from the time when the Party Central Committee issued the "May 4th Instructions" in 1946 to before the promulgation of the "Outline of China's Land Law" in 1947. The story of repelling the bandit attack, this one has Zhao Yulin as the main character; the second part describes the further deepening of the land reform movement after the promulgation of the "Outline of China's Land Law" in October 1947, with Guo Quanhai as the main character. This novel reproduces the process of the land reform movement in the liberated areas on a large scale and completely. It has distinctive characteristics of the times and a strong flavor of life. It creates a number of vivid characters and occupies an important position in the history of contemporary Chinese literature.

Three Female Heads Came to the Village

Xu Xiangnan

150K0

Jiang Yuxin suddenly received a letter from her grandma, and the content in the letter made Jiang Yuxin very uneasy. She hurriedly resigned and hurried to her hometown, Beishangkan Village, to fulfill the agreement with her grandmother and to search for the traces left by her deceased father in the village. However, she unexpectedly got caught up in a battle for the old house. With the help of Tang Ruonan, the first secretary in the village born in the 1990s, Jiang Yuxin successfully solved the family crisis; at the same time, inspired by Tang Ruonan and because of her own obsession, Jiang Yuxin decided to stay in the village and opened a country B&B based on the old house with her best friend Lu Jia who came to visit her. However, the good times did not last long, and the villagers in the ancient villages were not interested in local tourism development and the revitalization of traditional crafts. At this time, the three female heads realized that in order to truly lead the villagers to get rich, they must first change their concepts. As a result, the three girls worked together to build roads, plant Cordyceps cordyceps, and encourage young talents who had left the village to return to the village to start businesses. Beishangkan Village gradually took on a new look. At this time, the problem appeared again. A local developer wants to intervene in the commercial development of the ancient village. On the one hand, it needs to demolish and build a lot, and on the other hand, it needs to protect the village's cultural resources such as old crafts, ancient buildings, and eating habits, and preserve the original color of the ancient village. Where will Beishangkan Village go? How should the three female heads lead the villagers to break out?

Skywalker (Humanities Classic Library)

Liu Xinglong

201K0

Liu Xinglong's Mao Dun Literature Award-winning work "Skywalker" is set against the backdrop of China's impoverished rural education in the 1990s. It tells the bitter story of a group of private teachers who selflessly contributed to rural education in a poor life and sought to become regular teachers. It also reflects the long-forgotten hardships of rural private teachers. The novel reflects the phenomenon of private teachers that existed in China for twenty years from the late 1960s to the late 1980s and their living conditions. The novel uses multiple techniques such as double-line structure, realism, symbolism, contrast, etc. To depict characters, creating a group of vivid images of private teachers.

Time is Like a Song: Changing with Each Passing Day

Li Chunyu

48K0

This book contains three chapters and 31 chapters. This book adopts the chapter writing technique and draws on the classic tracks of the 1986 edition of Journey to the West: Dream of Red Mansions, which is a highlight of the book. The story takes place in rural China in the 1990s. The first chapter, Year Rings Presented to Parents (the communication equipment in this chapter is mainly fixed-line phones) mainly describes the childhood lives of Tian Zhonghua, Tian Zhongxing, Zhao Jixiang, Li Changzheng, and Jiang Xingtian. Wang Qinglin, the head of Development Township, has foresight and foresight. For more than ten years, he has been working diligently and hard-working to lead the villagers to plant trees and improve the ecological environment. He has miraculously completed one million acres of artificial forest and achieved a double harvest of ecological and economic benefits. Chapter 2, The Righteous Path in the World Is Vicissitudes of Life (the communication equipment in this chapter is mainly fixed-line telephone) mainly describes Jiang Xingtian, the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, conducting overt and covert investigations and fighting against the evil gangs, and finally defeated the evil gangs headed by Mie Tian. Conscript Zhao Jixiang's military career after joining the army. The touching deeds of Zhao Jixiang and company commander Chen Huaijun during flood fighting and rescue operations. The third chapter, Love without Borders and the Virtue of Gratitude (the communication equipment in this chapter is mainly smart phones) mainly describes the Chinese medical team's selfless assistance to an African country where the plague broke out. The protagonist, Li Chunhong, the head nurse of the African Medical Mission, tells a touching story of treating patients in Africa. Interlude "Beautiful Africa" ​​and "Flowers Ode to the Motherland".

Time is Like Wine (Part 3 of the Time Trilogy)

Liu Dezhou

156K0

This is a full-length novel that reflects work and life in the modern workplace. It is the third part of the "Times Trilogy" series after "Times Like a Song" and the second "Times Like Flowers". The work is about a county party committee sending a village party branch secretary to work at the grassroots level to increase farmers' income, develop a local economy, and highlight rural revitalization as the main line. They try every means to unite people's hearts, enhance the combat effectiveness and centripetal force of the party branch, and unite and lead the entire village cadres on the road to prosperity. Through arduous and unremitting efforts, a weak and scattered grassroots organization was finally transformed into a battle fortress capable of fighting big battles and daring to fight tough battles. The work is cleverly laid out, full of twists and turns, ups and downs, fascinating, and has strong ideological, artistic and readability.

Girls from the Yao Family

Soap Locust

78K0

The story takes place in a small mountain village in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and is an emotional story about a son-in-law and three sisters who came to their house. This novel is about the customs and regional nostalgia of ordinary farmers. It does not create the most perfect protagonist. The worst people have advantages and the best people have shortcomings, which reveals the authenticity of human nature.

Bloom, Peach Blossom

Bloom, Peach Blossom

General Fiction

Wang Xiao

87K0

The novel describes the life course of Hutaohua, a tortured rural girl, who carries a heavy burden and struggles tenaciously. It also reproduces the living conditions and social changes of different groups of people in the era of rural collective economy. This article tells a poignant and bitter rural story. This is Wang Xiao's work that was inspired by his feelings. It is to the point and arouses association and thinking.

Little Teacher

Little Teacher

General Fiction

Yan Dengrong

225K0

In a primary school in a rural area in the mountainous area of ​​northern Sichuan, there was a school that "study half a day, give birth half a day", called "Gengdu Primary School", which was later called a private school. The teacher was Yan Xingyun who had just returned from high school. He was not much taller or older than the students. So people call him "little teacher". The job of a teacher at Gengdu Primary School is low, with only 12 yuan per month. Only the 5 yuan from the state subsidy is cash, and the rest has to be collected from the production team. In this case, his grandfather encouraged him and said: "Don't be afraid. Others support their families with 'art', but we support 'art' at home." At that time, teachers generally only had elementary school education. Grandpa said: "Teaching is about teaching. If you teach well, you will teach others' children; if you teach poorly, you will mislead others' children." The classes taught by others tend to get smaller as they are taught, while the classes taught by Yan Xingyun get bigger as they are taught; students in private classes have higher grades than those in public classes. The students he teaches have published many compositions at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels. He has also been praised and awarded by the county party committee and county government many times. In this way, Yan Xingyun became a qualified primary school teacher without a diploma.

Sandumuke

Sandumuke

General Fiction

Abin

156K0

During the Song Dynasty, mysterious primitive tribesmen lived in the Daling Mountains of southern Jiangxi. They "hunted and cut trees", "had their hair cut off and tattooed", and "heard their voices but could not see their shapes". These mysterious tribesmen are called "Shandu" or "Mu Ke". Historical scholars believe that the "Shandu Muke" recorded in ancient books are descendants of the ancient Yue people in southern Jiangxi. The Shandumu Ke tribe in southern Jiangxi has witnessed the influx of Chinese immigrants in Chinese history. They share the beautiful wild land of southern Jiangxi with the Heluo people (ancestors of the Hakka) who migrated from the distant Central Plains, the indigenous Yuren tribe, Jiangdong tribe, Dongling tribe, and the Heilang Valley Heilang tribe. During the Song Dynasty, the border areas between Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong were experiencing social unrest and unrest. The primitive tribes in Daling Mountain encountered rebels, bandits, bandits and mountain torrents, and fell into survival difficulties. They put aside their grudges and jointly dealt with the scourge of rebels, bandits, bandits and mountain torrents. In order to survive the tribe, the Shandu Muke tribe "bartered" with the Sanhekou Heluo people in exchange for the Huai salt and ironware that the Heluo people trafficked from Ganzhou, thus developing the earliest Hakka rural market trade in southern Gansu. The novel takes Shan Taomei, a girl from the Shandu Muke tribe, as the main line. It creates an image of a primitive tribal girl who is kind-hearted, smart, lively, and bold, who dares to challenge the constraints of tribal rules and longs for the world outside the mountains. The novel depicts the primitive beauty of the mountains in southern Jiangxi, and describes the customs and folk customs of the primitive tribesmen in the Daling Mountains in southern Jiangxi, their simple beliefs, their reverence for nature, and their unremitting struggle against natural and man-made disasters. The Shandu Muke tribe eventually disappeared in the long river of history. What kind of legend did they experience in the beautiful and magical land of Hakka Gannan?

Loner

Loner

General Fiction

Wang Xiao

249K0

The novel narrates a series of incidents, conflicts and battles that occurred during the Republic of China in Lixi, a closed, isolated, poor and backward small mountain village with a history of dozens or hundreds of years in a southwest province.

Banditry

Banditry

General Fiction

Li Li

63K0

The story takes place in Zigong, Yancheng in the early 1940s. Ruan Leshan, a son of a salt merchant, set fire to the Ruan family ancestral hall, Ni Ni, the female bandit leader of Jiu'an Village, robbed arms, Yan'an sent people to Zigong to purchase well salt, and finally the national army encircled Jiu'an Village; but two rebellious young people Ruan Leshan and Ni Ni, who had a feud for generations, came together in this false and complicated relationship, and finally escaped the danger and rushed to Yan'an. This is a story about abandoning darkness and turning to light, a story that takes place in Zigong itself, a legendary story between a rich boy and a female bandit leader. The work tells a legendary story that happened in Zigong, Yancheng in the early 1940s. The narrative rises and falls suddenly, opens and closes, and has ups and downs.

Woman Walking Through Swamp

Garden Grass

378K0

This ordinary country woman was riddled with wounds by real life, but she was as stubborn as a tumbler. She came from a carefree childhood, and also had a high-spirited youth. She thought she would be embraced by the sunshine in the future, and she found another safe haven for herself, allowing herself to wander in the cradle of dreams. What reality has given me, apart from wind and rain, is a quagmire and the scraps of life. She has a belief that the sun always comes after the storm. It was the responsibility of her family and children that made her, who was already weak, into an immortal little strong one. She is Zhonghuamei. She is as beautiful as her name, but her fate is like the grass in the swamp. She is both weak and strong, and can be resurrected from the dead. The great love in the world and the rapid changes of living in this land filled her eyes with light, and she also saw the bright future ahead.

Devil's Chain

Devil's Chain

General Fiction

Yang Runshen

251K0

What the novel shows to readers is Baiyang Pass in the Taihang Mountains. The mountain people all want to realize their "dreams", and each shows his ability and finds his place. There was a loud noise, and the original branch secretary was shattered into pieces. The current party secretary went to the capital to go to the provincial capital and worked hard, but the cause of his death was unknown. The "devil" was not afraid of hardships and dangers in the revolutionary war and was willing to shed blood. The "devil" turned millions of dollars that he could not dream of into "joy" for everyone, but he still received no reward. The tools used by the criminals who brutally killed the former branch secretary were related to the "devil", and it was difficult for the "devil" to explain. His adopted son was killed again. His wife is as beautiful as a flower, but he can only be a husband, unable to find the love he hopes to find.

Go Home

Go Home

General Fiction

Wang Hai

213K0

The novel truly records what happened in our time. For the sake of urbanization, they gave up the land and homes that had been passed down from generation to generation to raise them, and marched into the city to start a new way of living. Their dream is to have a home, a home where they can return. Looking back, the claws of snow and mud are imprinted with every arduous step taken by the people of Qin in pursuit of a happy life. Moving forward, the road home is still long, and the stories of returning home will continue to be played out. The descendants of the Qin people firmly believe that all the sweat and efforts will eventually be rewarded, and will bring different glory and pride to the past land and the current city...

Heaven

Heaven

General Fiction

Wang Hai

269K0

"Paradise" describes the overwhelming pain and heroic choices made by Chinese farmers in the late 1970s during that major transformation and under the impact of the earth-shattering reform wave in rural areas. It has created many characters, and the description of women and emotions is more charming, which will make you passionate and cry with emotion. Especially the description of the old secretary and the midwife Gua Po are lifelike, and they are two novel typical characters. After the protagonist Xiao Han gained the power to take charge of Guandao Village, the author's hysterical howling in love and hate, in the struggle between the old production system and reform, was deeply described in the author's writing.

Ginseng King: after Retiring from the Army, I Became Rich by Growing Ginseng

One Feather

174K0

How can eight ginseng seeds grow into ten thousand acres of ginseng fields? How can a down-and-out veteran turn around and become a millionaire? The girlfriend who once looked down on him, the fellow villagers who mocked him, and the villain who plotted against him all had to kneel down and beg him in the end! This is not a simple counterattack novel, it is a veteran's iron-blooded revenge, a poor boy's legend of getting rich, and it is also a man's responsibility and responsibility!

Yuanzhuang

Yuanzhuang

General Fiction

Chen Zhongkun

101K0

"Yuanzhuang" tells the story of the struggle and struggle of several generations in a small island fishing village in southern Fujian from a child's perspective. The customs, customs and changes of the times of the fishing villages in southern Fujian are integrated into the story. We saw the interesting folk songs of southern Fujian, the festive food and living customs with southern Fujian characteristics, and the vivid human fireworks rising in the story. The poetic language, the perception of life, the persistence of dreams and the lingering nostalgia, the stories engraved in the bones and flesh, are full of true feelings and are moving.

My Small Village, My Dream

Hu Han

136K0

This book is an original novel, based on the experience of Li Weimin, a nearly retired government worker, after he signed up to become the first secretary in the village. It tells the story of his efforts in using his talents to help the villagers sell food and fruits, build roads, relocate the entire village, build a winery, sell agricultural products through live broadcast, and strive for a high-standard farmland management project of 8,000 acres. With the concern from all walks of life and the joint efforts of him and the village committee, local farmers have actively integrated into the tide of the times, and a village with a weak collective economy has developed into a village with a strong collective economy. This praises the unremitting efforts of grassroots workers and paints a beautiful picture of rural revitalization on the shores of Chao Lake.

On the Watershed

On the Watershed

General Fiction

Liu Yongxiang

103K0

This book is a full-length original novel with realistic themes. It tells the story of rural grassroots young cadres and young entrepreneurs who lead the people in their hometowns on the road to rural revitalization. Faced with the current situation of poverty, backwardness and disunity in their hometown, these young people of the new era withstood the pressure and overcame many difficulties to lead the rural people out of poverty, change customs, inherit excellent rural culture, and build their hometown into a beautiful countryside in the new era with beautiful ecology, happy work and livable life, and good folk customs. The author introduces the writing of the native land, region, folk customs, customs, etc. In the Jianghuai watershed area, which enhances the cultural connotation and "local" connotation of the novel.

Big River Beach

Big River Beach

General Fiction

Zhang Shuguo

334K0

This book is a novel that tells the story of Liu Hongshan, an old farmer in Daliuzhuang on the Yellow River Bank in the 1950s, who led the villagers to carry out land reform under the leadership of Chen Jingde, a stationed cadre. Liu Hongshan is a master of farming. He only focuses on farming and does not want to join the mutual aid group. With Chen Jingde's continuous motivation and encouragement, he helps the villagers improve their farming skills and increase their income, and fights against the evil forces represented by Liu Xiaohei in the village. In the end, Liu Hongshan realized that only by uniting with everyone can he change the backwardness of Liuzhuang, and submitted an application to join the party.

One Zhanghong (Collection of Ge Shuixing's Works)

Ge Level

280K0

This collection includes seven works by the famous writer Ge Shuixing, including two novels "Bare Land" and "Living Water", three collections of short stories and short stories "I Look at the Lamp", "Little Baggage" and "One Foot of Red", and two collections of essays "Lights Under the Mountain" and "Passing Time". The works are written around themes such as local civilization, women's writing, and ecological morality. They are full of rich local literary characteristics and the language is rich in poetic flavor. "One Zhang Hong" continues her consistent writing style. The subject matter is taken from a small mountain village called "Shan Shen Wa". Through the similar experiences and emotional confrontations between Liu Ping'an and Liu Sanpang, it explores and displays some kind of confrontation or conflict-like power in the multiple relationships between people and between people and the world. It also explores the complexity and richness of human nature in this conflict.

City ​​gate

City ​​gate

General Fiction

Wang Hai

271K0

This book is a rural-themed novel with strong regional color, poetic and picturesque flavor, fresh and smooth narration, unique and vivid characters, which is easy to read and long-lasting. In the form of literature, the author writes more wonderfully about the farmers' attachment to the land when they leave the land, and the confusion and panic in the lives of landless farmers after they move to the city.

Village

Village

General Fiction

Feng Jiqi

300K0

At dusk many days, I always see Jiqi hanging thin and lonely over the noise of the city, meditating painfully. Every time I see this scene, I always feel a twinge of pain and infinite sadness in my heart. I could not guess his state of mind at that time, nor could I literally translate the mystery of life that belongs only to God. But at dusk, in the city, the message of life conveyed by the tranquility and serenity of a lonely single man always makes me deeply uneasy and guilty.

A Village of One Person (work by Liu Liangcheng)

Liu Liangcheng

202K0

In Huangshaliang, a village where humans and animals cohabitate, Liu Er's greatest pleasure is wandering around the village: he plays with insects, watches other people working, greets the birds on the branches, and appreciates the smile of a flower; he understands the hardships of mice, feels the power of cows and horses, watches the wind tilt the shadows, and measures the distance of a wind. He never opens the door when he goes to a house. He waits for the wind to blow the door open, then goes in, and the wind closes the door again. The biggest thing every day is to stand at the head of the village in the morning and welcome the sunrise alone. He understood the impermanence of life and death from the withering glory of a tree, and associated the fate of his ancestors from the cry of a bird. Liu Liangcheng drew on thousands of years of oriental poetic tradition, opened up a kingdom of words that is a spiritual habitat, and created an unparalleled Chinese classic so far.

Virtual Earth (work by Liu Liangcheng)

Liu Liangcheng

145K0

In the morning, on Xutuliang, a five-year-old child was awakened by the sound of the door opening and saw people in the village rushing to go on a long trip. At the age of five, he was short and could only see the feet of many people and the legs of horses, but not their eyes. Suddenly, he recognized a thin and small person in the crowd. He sat on the carriage, tilting his head and facing backward as he watched the village disappear. After that morning, the people in the village never saw morning again. They always woke up at noon. And the five-year-old child no longer grows up and is just dreaming. When he woke up, everyone in the village was old. They gathered around him and asked him to tell him where they had been that morning.

Hollowed Out (work by Liu Liangcheng)

Liu Liangcheng

224K0

In the ancient Abudan Village, a large-scale excavation event is taking place: Underground, two lonely diggers have their own concerns and are walking toward each other. Zhang Wangcai fled from other places and came to Abudan. Far away from the village, he burrowed underground like a mouse, building a dark palace one by one. Yu Sufu, the contractor, was the first person to leave Abudan. He retreated to the village and managed the underground world in an orderly manner, step by step... Almost everyone in the village was aware of the secret of the underground cave, but no one could tell it. On the ground, oil derricks are rising, and excavations are happening everywhere, almost completely hollowing out Abudan Village and its ancient way of life. The earth is dug into an empty shell, and the village is elevated above the void. It is said that the "big job" of digging trenches for oil pipelines, which has been going on for more than a year, has arrived. The whole village is waiting with their kantuman on their shoulders, and the donkeys are also waiting. "There's always something to do in Kantuman." This is a village's Hundred Years of Solitude, telling the story of the years when two diggers had no shadows underground, and the life of people who are busy in vain and waiting forever. "In your lifetime, you will see many things disappear, only the things you hope for will not come."

Successor

Successor

General Fiction

Xiao Jin

112K0

The history of ethical changes in the Long family, time span: from the Republic of China to the beginning of the 21st century. Divided into four parts. The first part: The years of the Republic of China (a total of 9 chapters); the second part: the twenty-nine years (a total of 9 chapters); the third part: After the rope is untied (a total of 9 chapters); the fourth part: ZTE Dream (a total of 9 chapters). There are four parts in total, 36 chapters, and more than 110,000 words.

Monument of Chastity

Monument of Chastity

General Fiction

Li Xubin

142K0

This article writes about two beauties in the countryside who originally wanted to keep their reputation and keep their reputation, but the times were against their wishes. One was a beauty who was a disaster and was repeatedly ravaged; the other was forced to become a bandit. Since ancient times, good and evil are rewarded in the world. One of them is regarded as a god; the other is like a mouse crossing the street. In the end, why did they both drown themselves in the pond? Chastity or unchastity is determined by the human heart.

Freak (work by Xia Chunxiao)

Xia Chunxiao

246K0

Shi Cuosheng first doubted his own life experience because his wife had given birth to a freak, and then he learned that his wife's origins were also unknown. So, he was determined to find out who his biological parents and parents-in-law were! Unexpectedly, when the truth came out, six families would be involved, and more than half a century of grudges would lead to tragedies...

Sanbao's Strange Youth Time

Ronsk

111K0

This is an inspirational novel full of strange colors. It tells the story of a rural child named Sanbao who had a different childhood. From the protagonist's growth process, readers can not only understand the situation in the countryside, but also understand the difficulties faced by left-behind children in China.

Reunion Wine

Reunion Wine

General Fiction

Shu Feilian

157K0

Shujiayuan, Meijiayuan, Kuangbu Village; Dachan River, Xiaochan River, Shengli Bridge; maple poplar trees, tallow trees, water mango grass... This is Yunmengze where water vapor, cloud air, earth air, night air, and witchcraft air are mixed. The people who grow up on this land are simple kind and tough, fierce and tender. He also suffered torture and blessings because of human love. The blind fortune teller shuttled between different stories, telling his secret past; Tu Lili, who was tired after wandering around the city, returned and found rest; while Yang Ersao, who had been rooted in the Golden Temple for most of her life, chose to bid farewell to her homeland and bitter feelings; in the last twilight, the male and female egrets danced solemnly. Six stories, all the turmoil, loneliness, resentment, and seeking people are gathered together in the novel "Reunion Wine" of the same name. On a snowy night, a rural reunion banquet was going on lively... Why did the people who had left come back from villages, small towns, big cities, foreign countries and even outside the world, from all over the world, to attend this reunion banquet and fulfill Aunt Yuanying's perfect wish?

Final Production Team

Final Production Team

General Fiction

Li Shaohua

263K0

This novel describes an aspect of my country's early 1980s when Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up policies began to be implemented. The novel shows the process of the northeastern rural areas and grassroots production teams transforming from a collective economy to dividing fields into households. This novel expresses this important historical process very convincingly.

The Soil is Thick and the Well is Deep

Kong Yu

260K0

In "The Soil is Deep and the Well is Deep", people in the plains of eastern Henan and the Taihang Mountains speak simple and vivid spoken language, smile witty and humorously, and are more tolerant. Their simplicity is tinged with strength, their optimism and self-deprecation are tinged with bitterness. In the difficult years, they burst out with the power of benevolence and love, as well as the wisdom of survival... All of this converges into a poem of life that is as endless as the water of the Yellow River. This work can be seen as an affectionate look back at the rural era, a tribute to the virtuous and trustworthy fathers, and an expansion and enrichment of rural literary creation.

Song of the Mountains

Song of the Mountains

General Fiction

Liu Yuanbin

197K0

This is a novel that reflects contemporary social life. A remote mountain village in southwestern Henan is also glowing with youth amid the changes of the times. The novel focuses on the colorful life experiences of the Zhao Sheng brothers and several of their peers, and writes about the youth and struggles of a generation. Zhao Sheng, Liao Linlin and others have made outstanding achievements in different work fields through hard study. His younger brother Zhao Wang established his own team through hard work and also contributed to the great changes in the ancient mountain village. Along the way, they sang and cried, loved and hated, but they all composed their own moving songs. The novel has clear language, clear structure, and lifelike characters. At the same time, it also depicts the vibrant, colorful social life in southwestern Henan for readers.

Transferred to a Woman

Transferred to a Woman

General Fiction

Wen Jing

102K0

In 1978, three households in Nandazhuang and Beidazhuang in the North China Plain "swap marriages": Wang's bald son married Li's Hongye, Li's Gui married Sun's Mixiang, and Sun's Futian married Wang's osmanthus. The three newlyweds each have their own sorrows and grudges: Hongye is forced to go on a hunger strike, Osmanthus accepts her fate, and Mixiang fights to death to no avail. After the marriage, Tu'er ran away from the marriage, Futian treated her coldly, and Gui'er was violent at home. The three girls fell into misery. Thirty years have passed, and the blood and tears of the small village in North China have been shattered by the spring breeze of reform and opening up. When the old shackles broke, they proved with tenacity and love that women can write a happy lifelong contract by themselves.

Sanwan

Sanwan

General Fiction

Zhao Liandou

196K0

The novel "Three Bays" begins in reverse order, using the birthday party of two octogenarians to unfold the suffering and struggle of a lower-class family spanning two generations. From the humiliating predicament in the early days of liberation to the heroic feat of counterattack and life-changing, the novel connects the changes of the times in society, marriage, serving the country, and ecology, portraying a vivid image of adhering to justice and persevering in education. In the ups and downs of the plot, it demonstrates the Chinese people's faith and power for good, and witnesses the transformation from remote mountains to the most beautiful countryside.

Complete Two Volumes of Qin Opera (humanities Classic Library)

Jia Pingwa

430K0

"Qin Opera" is Jia Pingwa's 12th novel. It was first published in April 2005 and won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award. The work is based on his hometown of Dihua Town, uses delicate and plain language, and adopts a "dense fleeting writing style". It writes about various issues that have changed in China's rural life over the past 20 years, such as why a large number of farmers have left the countryside, how farmers have disappeared from the land step by step, etc. It focuses on the profound changes in rural values and interpersonal relationships in the traditional pattern during the reform and opening up era. The words are filled with deep affection for the hometown and thoughts on the current situation of the countryside during the social transformation period. Most of the people and things in the book have prototypes. Jia Pingwa said, "I want to erect a monument based on it as my hometown." It has been called "an epic volume of contemporary Chinese rural areas."

The Legend of Ironwood

The Legend of Ironwood

General Fiction

Chen Xirui

68K0

This book tells the story of a rural young man, Liuer, who leads the villagers to revitalize his hometown. Liu'er helped his friend Li Qi'er enter the woodwork factory and persuaded his brother Si'er to join the scientific research team. Li Qi'er made many mistakes during the sales process, and Liu'er always helped. The woodware factory suffered a fraud and was in dire straits. Liuer and others worked together to tide over the difficulties. Later, Liu'er was elected as the village chief, introduced off-season vegetable planting technology, established a cooperative, and led the villagers to increase their income. At the same time, the woodware factory has also developed into a pillar industry in the village. In the end, the village achieved industrial prosperity, and Liu'er grew into a rural leader, demonstrating the persistence and growth of ordinary workers in rural revitalization.

Flowers Bloom on the Clouds

Zhou Liangkuo

176K0

Thirteen-year-old Ziqi Aguo was about to drop out of school. Hu Mingyuan went to donate money to help and help his father sell bamboo crafts. After learning that Hu Mingyuan was seriously ill, Ziqi Aguo published an advertisement in Liangshan Daily: borrowing 500,000 yuan to treat his illness and betting his life to repay the debt. Zhuang Tianya, a Chinese-American, helped Hu Mingyuan recover and was discharged from the hospital. He came to Ziqi Aguo's home and became the "Pig Commander". While helping her family get out of poverty and pay off debts, he actively set up a kindergarten for Yunshang Village, built village roads, built a network, and created the "Yo Yo Luming" summer camp to create a new education model that combines children's play with work. Hu Mingyuan also helped villagers find ways to get rich for their families and actively explored surrounding markets. After being recommended by the villagers as the village party secretary, he led farmers to raise pigs, bees, and rabbits, grow ginger, plant fruit trees, build picking gardens, and build collective farms, putting Yunshang Village on the road to common prosperity through industrial upgrading and rural revitalization. In order to enrich and strengthen the rural collective economy, Hu Mingyuan and Ziqi Aguo sincerely invite Zhuang Tianya to return to China to invest. Utilize the local natural environment, water conservancy resources, international biotechnology and other superior conditions to actively build a beautiful rural industrial cluster integrating breeding bases, cultural and creative animation, sightseeing and tourism, film and television shooting, and resort hotels. During the construction of the Yunshan Hydropower Station, dinosaur fossils hundreds of millions of years ago were accidentally discovered during rock cutting, which brought unprecedented development opportunities to the local tourism industry. Yunshang Village took advantage of the situation and laid out future industries such as holographic science fiction in advance, embarking on the road of sustainable development.

Climb to the Top

Climb to the Top

General Fiction

Wooden Knife

123K0

Kaoshantun in northern Shandong is a small mountain village that everyone loves. Although it is not close to the sea or a river, it is only surrounded by mountains, ravines, and ravines. The village as a whole has a rocky landform and little arable land, but for those who love it, it has its own beauty, wisdom, and beauty. There is a family named Li in the village. The owner's original name was Li Desheng, but he later changed his name to Li Tieying. Tieying is a very smart person by nature, bold, daring to think and do, and responsible. However, most people don't like him, saying that he is not like a decent man. Li Tieying's mother, Tong Yiyi, is over sixty years old and lives alone; she is not optimistic about her son Li Tieying. But only the old village chief Song Guangming looked at him with admiration, and before leaving office, he strongly recommended Li Tieying to take over.

Plowing Clouds and Sowing Rain

Zhou Yuanhao

173K0

There is a group of young people in Jinlong Bay by the Xianghe River. Long Xiaogai and Jin Xia were childhood sweethearts, while Long Peng and Long Lingling were half-brothers and sisters. When Long Xiaogai was in the army, he met the young singer Long Lingling. Long Lingling fell in love with Long Xiaogai at first sight and pursued her closely. Later, Long Xiaogai was discharged from the army and returned to his hometown to breed crayfish successfully, and his comrade He Runlong defected to him. Jinxia went to the city to open a shrimp restaurant and met a good sister Li Shan who was working. Long Peng, a well-known local entrepreneur, also launched an emotional offensive against Jin Xia. After He Runlong and Li Shan joined them, they added many twists and turns to the story. They used hard work and wisdom to create a better life, and also gained laughter and love.

Look at My Face

Look at My Face

General Fiction

Zhao Lanzhen

52K0

This book is a coming-of-age novel for teenagers and an elegy in memory of rural life. Fishing, catching crabs, eels, and turtle doves are all part of Xuesheng's summer vacation with his friends. Unrestrained, free and happy, I never tire of it by the Nanhe River every day. Suddenly one day, Xue was so sick that she couldn't straighten up and felt that she was going to die. The instinct of survival made him hold on to his friends tightly and turn to the doctor for help... The novel uses flexible narrative to illuminate the ordinary and poetic life of the three boys. The sincere and simple friendship and the magnificent and magical legend lead us into that poor but extremely rich childhood.

Yuanxiang

Yuanxiang

General Fiction

Ji Yu

254K0

"Origin Township" is a novel about and describing the countryside. It tells the story of two generations of people in Chengjiazhuang, Chaxi Township, Northern Jiangsu Plain from the 1980s to the present. Cheng Jiabao is the son born after his father and mother went through all kinds of hardships after giving birth to five daughters. Through the description of Uncle Cheng Jiabao's family, widow Li Chuntao's family, Cheng Yougen, Liu Cuilan, Cheng Sanlou, Cheng Guixiang, Xu Dapao and other characters, the book vividly presents rural scenes in northern Jiangsu and Chinese-style rural relations, reflecting the progress of the times, social changes, highlights of human nature, and the fate of individual little people under the background of the times, society, and nature.

Fragrance of Fertile Soil

The Maple Burns At Dawn

215K0

Geng Shouyi is an out-and-out hardworking and simple farmer in Quanyanling Village. One day he learned that Murakami's leaders had colluded with Boss Wang, a large foreign developer, to occupy Murakami's farmland and build an oil refinery. Geng Shouyi ignored the opposition of his family in order to protect the cultivated land in the village. In order to protect his homeland, which he relies on for survival, and to keep the green mountains and green waters of his hometown, Geng Shouyi resolutely embarked on the road of fighting against Boss Wang. Under Geng Shouyi's stubborn persistence, after going through all kinds of hardships and dangers, Geng Shouyi finally managed to save the cultivated land in his hometown despite all the odds. The cultivated land that the people rely on for survival has not been destroyed. Later, Geng Shouyi summoned his daughter who was working in the city back, and the two of them used the online live broadcast platform to promote their hometown, its local specialties, and its agricultural and sideline products. Later, with the support of the government and the first secretary in the village, and with the goal of rural revitalization, Geng Shouyi established a planting cooperative to specialize in the production and sale of sticky corn that was abundant in his hometown. This is an inspirational story that led the people to become rich.

Spring in Renyi Town

Spring in Renyi Town

General Fiction

Meng Fanxin

193K0

Opposite the old locust tree is a cliff standing thousands of feet tall. On the top of the cliff lives a family named Zhao. The head of the household, Zhao Quanwu, is a centenarian who practiced martial arts for his ancestors and reached its peak in his generation. He is not only a traveling master of the escort agency, but also an expert in "forbidden snakes", "making cakes" and "knitting", etc. He especially likes to caress a "sacred arrow". This "sacred sword" is not only a tool for driving a car, a weapon for encountering bandits on the road, but also an ornament that displays a heroic image. In this ravine, you can often hear his crisp and bright whipping sound. When stories talk about the past, they are often inextricably linked to Zhao Quanwu. The story reaches the present moment and is more or less related to Zhao Quanwu's three sons. The eldest son, Zhao Delong, inherited his father's legacy, was honest and resourceful, but also witty and courageous; the second son, Zhao Dehu, was rebellious and playful, outstanding in eloquence, supported the good and suppressed the evil, and loved driving horses and mules; the third son, Zhao Debao, was smart and free-spirited, never followed the rules, was fond of martial arts, and especially liked music, which led to constant love affairs and endless pain.

Ivy in the Farmyard

Ivy in the Farmyard

General Fiction

Jiang Lanfang

271K0

This book starts from the life at the bottom of society and uses the local customs in Guanzhong, Shaanxi as the background. It successfully creates a series of characters such as Tian Xue, Hei Wa, Liang Dashi, Cuihua, and Hu Yuncheng. It promotes the main theme of society, praises the virtues of struggle and entrepreneurship, and I am the virtue of everyone. It lashes out the ugly behavior that violates human ethics and eulogizes the rapid changes in Taolin Village, Qinfeng City with passionate writing. The author wants to use words to make more people pay attention to "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", listen to the voices of the people at the bottom in social changes, get to know farmers and the countryside, and understand what farmers are thinking.

Butterfly Valley

Butterfly Valley

General Fiction

Qiao Hongtao

213K0

This is a book about youth endeavor, telling the story of several young people in the deep mountains pursuing their dreams under the guidance of the policies of the new era - Bai Bing, the young and promising first secretary who has never changed his original intention, Meng Bin, a veteran with great integrity and ideals, Yang Liu, a confident and cheerful college student, and Xiangchun, a kind-hearted and simple female director who pursues beauty. They sweat on the earth and dance like butterflies...

Rural Changes

Rural Changes

General Fiction

Ho Chi Kim

181K0

From Zhou Yusheng's perspective, this book affectionately describes the vicissitudes of rural Sichuan over the past few decades. From the tender winter days covered with snow, to the passionate years, to the rise of the countryside after the reform and opening up, the novel outlines vivid pictures of life with delicate brushstrokes. Zhou Yusheng's interaction with the villagers demonstrates the warmth and complexity of human nature, while the transformation of the countryside in the tide of the times reflects the epitome of China's rural development. The book not only contains an affectionate look back at the past years, but also a beautiful longing for future life. Through Zhou Yusheng's story, readers will feel the great changes and hope in the countryside, and appreciate the tenacity and strength hidden deep in the soil.

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