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Pingle County Chronicle

Yan Ge

255K02

"Pingle County Chronicles" is the latest novel by the writer Yan Ge, and it is also the finale of his "Pingle Town Series". The book has a total of fourteen chapters. The story takes place on the East Street of Pingle Town. Fu Qihong, the deputy director of the County Chronicle Office who is about to retire, and his daughter-in-law Chen Diju are the two protagonists. They connect the growth and separation of a young man and woman and the ups and downs of small town life. This is a literary archive of Pingle Town written in the form of a virtual local chronicle, and it is also a postmodern "three words and two shots". Yan Ge made a conscious modern transformation of the three-character and two-part script novel, unfolding the narrative in the tone of a storyteller, and cleverly used various old-style poems and rhymes as well as Sichuan dialect, blending classical and modern senses, making the novel text rich in layers and space, showing a strong ability to reshape modern Chinese and contemporary stories.

Tassel

Tassel

General Fiction

Han Fei

240K0

"Tassel" is a realistic novel. The author condenses the historical change process of rural areas in the hilly areas of central Shandong and panoramicly reproduces the social life in remote rural areas in the 1980s and 1990s. Against the broad background of reform and opening up, the novel takes Zhang Liusu, a peasant woman, as the main line, and depicts the images of many ordinary people through the conflicts and entanglements of various characters in the small mountain village. Betrayal and watchfulness, tears and smiles, frustration and pursuit, conservatism and resistance, daily life and social development and changes, many conflicts are intertwined, profoundly showing the tortuous path that remote rural areas have taken under the impact of the tide of social development, and showing the arduous struggle of ordinary little people in the melting pot of society as their spiritual concepts are constantly tempered and reborn.

Grass and Trees

Grass and Trees

General Fiction

Old Vine

211K0

"Grass and Trees" is a novel with realistic themes written by the famous writer Lao Teng. This book focuses on the revitalization and development of Xuli Village, a village that evolved from a post station in the Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of how cadres "I", Shao Zhentian and others led the villagers under the guidance of the Party's rural revitalization strategy to develop industries according to local conditions, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the post station culture in China's excellent traditional culture, and create the Post Road·Meet Culture and Tourism integration project, which finally brought about earth-shaking changes in the village and put it on the road to health and prosperity. The novel has strong characteristics of the Northeastern border region. It explores new artistic qualities and updates narrative experience in the profound tradition of local literature, and embodies "the enterprising spirit of the Chinese nation that is upright rather than conservative, and respects the past rather than retrospecting."

Nuanyangli

Nuanyangli

General Fiction

Xue Xijun

206K0

It describes a family fleeing from famine in Shandong, with its fathers Liu Shichang, Liu Changhe, Guan Laowu, and Ding Dazhuang as representatives of an era; Liu Zhenzhen, Liu Zhuzhu, Zhou Lina, etc., And the working team in the village as representatives of an era. Their sense of self-responsibility and perseverance for the rural areas to get rid of poverty and become rich, for the revitalization and development of the countryside, are a force of this era and a powerful attack on the impetuosity and profit supremacy of some people today.

Echo of the Earth

Echo of the Earth

General Fiction

Wu Shengzhi

119K0

This is a novel. Adopting a realistic creative method, it tells the history of entrepreneurship of the generation born in the 1970s who adhered to the land and amidst the magnificent tide of the times. The author Wu Shengzhi is from Songtao Miao Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province. In the manuscript, the author incorporates strong local customs and manuscripts to create the image of rural entrepreneurs represented by Jin Gui. It describes in detail the tortuous journey they took when they failed to start a business for the first time, then went out to work, found new entrepreneurial opportunities, and finally broke out into a new world through difficult management. The manuscript expresses this generation's deep love and devotion to the land, and shows the image and pursuit of a new generation of farmer entrepreneurs.

Xiangjiawan

Xiangjiawan

General Fiction

Xiang Meifang

145K0

The story begins with a special interview with a well-known female writer in a small town in western Guangdong. It is divided into chapters and tells the struggles, ups and downs, loves, hates, joys and sorrows, and life legends of five generations of a peasant family. The time span of the novel is from 1920 to 2020, and the geographical span is from northwestern Hunan to southwestern Guangdong. The content covers the suffering and glory of China's rural areas during the Republic of China, the fate of individuals in special historical periods, the phoenix nirvana of farmers before and after reform and opening up, and the inspirational lives of a generation of rural youth across the century...

Past Events in Bahe River

Zhou Shiding

270K0

Zhang Yun, an outstanding young woman from Liushulin Village on the banks of the Wei River Basin, known as Sister Yun, is smart and dexterous, and is good at farm work and housework. Because of her good voice, she learned to sing folk tunes and local operas, joined a literary and art propaganda team, and learned to sing, dance and perform. Her good looks, bright voice, and constant touring performances made her a hit in the local area, attracting the enthusiastic pursuit of many cadres' children. But she fell in love with Wang Xiaofeng, a farmer's son from the same village who was studying in high school in the county town. She fell in love sincerely and persistently, and her dream finally came true with the help of her best friend and Wang Xiaofeng's classmate Li Liuying. In the long years that followed, for the sake of love, she reluctantly gave up her favorite literary and artistic activities and devoted herself to family and farming. She endured the burden, overcame many difficulties, tolerated her husband's mistakes, fully supported and helped him succeed in starting a business, and the couple became famous local farmers and entrepreneurs, finally achieving a happy marriage in her life.

Across Classes

Across Classes

General Fiction

Zhou Shiding

394K0

In the early days of rural reform and opening up, while farmers' lives continued to improve, there were still problems such as expensive and difficult medical treatment for serious and serious illnesses. The book describes a young rural couple, Wang Dasheng and Zheng Xiaomei. Their son was diagnosed with leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant, which required huge operating fees. The family sold all their belongings and borrowed money from relatives and friends, but they still couldn't raise the funds. When her family suffered a major disaster, in order to quickly obtain financial assistance and cure her son's illness, Zheng Xiaomei listened to gossip and unfortunately went astray and was treated illegally. When she discovered the truth, she fought tenaciously and with all her strength. With the help of her husband, she escaped from the devil's cave. She also got out of the predicament with the help of the state's legal system, so that the evildoers were punished. They also recognized their mistakes and learned lessons in the face of facts; they also recognized the current good situation, saw the direction, and together with the whole family, adapted measures to local conditions and worked hard to start a business, and finally achieved success, which not only made their family rich quickly, but also promoted the economic development of the people in their hometown and made them rich together, and they were widely praised.

Those Things That Year and Month

Han Bin

388K0

The novel uses the two heroines who accidentally marry each other's husbands as the plot line, and arranges the plot based on the two families' diverse thoughts on life, policy, and children. It describes the background of the beginning of reform and opening up, from different angles, different mentality, different characters, etc. It comprehensively reflects the hardships of rural life and the process of farmers going from poverty to wealth through suffering and pain through reform and opening up.

Lake and Vitality Connected

Yu Yiming

48K0

"The Lake and the Vitality" tells the story of Wang Sanyue, a college student with a background in Chinese, who went to Shangyuan Village, a village south of Danyang Lake, to serve as a village cadre. The work mirrors each other to create the heroic images of Liu Silong, Chen Yutian and Chen Daxian, who take the lead and serve the people wholeheartedly. By reviewing the past history, the work further explores the relatively distant historical picture from the real life in front of the eyes. At the end, it cleverly echoes the poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai: "Ten Odes of the Girl·Danyang Lake" ": "The lake is connected with the vitality, and the storm is unstoppable. Guests from outside the world return, and sails rise in the clouds. Turtles swim on the lotus leaves, and birds stay in the reed flowers. The girl paddles in the boat and sings along the flowing water." At the same time, the novel focuses on the current natural ecology, environmental protection, the relationship between man and nature, and the restoration of the natural ecology. It can be regarded as a quite typical ecological narrative text.

Northern Wild Geese Return South

Tang Wanqing

99K0

By describing Lingluo, a girl who was born in a rural area in the mountainous areas of eastern Sichuan, and her persistent and peculiar love affair with He Wenting, her junior high school Chinese teacher, and her lifelong struggle against a bumpy fate, the novel reflects the struggle and mental journey of a generation of rural women from rural areas to big cities, and then from big cities back to small counties and rural areas. It reflects the brilliance of the beautiful humanity of the new generation of eastern Sichuan women who are kind, hard-working, adventurous and courageous, constantly fighting against fate and always loyal to the sacred emotions in their hearts. It also depicts the gradual change of the early stage of rural revitalization in eastern Sichuan.

Blood Drops in June Snow

Wen Qin

183K0

This story tells that the heroine was born during the season when lotus flowers were in full bloom. Her parents named their daughter Xia He because they liked the spirit of lotus flowers that emerged from the mud and remained unstained. When Xia He's mother Lin Qiu gave birth to her younger sister Xinya, her father Xinran died suddenly in a car accident. Xia He's mother was so distraught that she fell ill and stayed with her husband in June of the following year. Young Xia He and Xinya, who has not yet weaned off breast milk, grew up with the help of Grandma Liu. Their story slowly unfolds...

Love and Warmth in Chenjiawan

Yang Boliang

230K0

This book is a novel that describes the moving story of Ma Huaiyun, as a cadre stationed in Chenjiawan to help rural revitalization, leading the villagers to overcome various difficulties, solve the problems of pollution and environmental protection and development dilemmas, restore the production of specialty products, and discover new development vitality. In addition, it also narrates the emotional entanglements between Ma Huaiyun, Yu Defu, whom his mother saved with her life, and some Chenjiawan villagers such as his old classmate Chen Huizhen, showing the Chenjiawan people's disputes, struggles, hardships, joys, and the life course of achieving happiness. The novel uses parallel techniques to create a group of characters with different personalities, and explores the challenges encountered in getting rid of material poverty and spiritual poverty. This book is full of fashionable atmosphere and positive energy, and is a picture scroll showing the real life in rural areas of Tianjin suburbs.

Bai Guniu Pond (part 4)

Cui Shixiong

203K0

This book is the fourth part of the novel "Baiguniutan". The story revolves around two families named Dou and Zeng on the shore of Honghu Lake. The time has entered 1979. Dou Xianzhi, a reborn farmer, has been with New China for thirty years, and his family situation has undergone major changes. In particular, the second son Dou Shihao joined the party and became a member of the party after joining the army, and he started a family in a big city, which changed his family's previous poverty. Dou Xianzhi went to visit relatives in his son's city and saw the new world outside, so he planned to leave his hometown and go to the city. At this time, something happened in his hometown that changed his mind. He wanted to stay in his hometown and work hard for the development of his hometown, and he applied to the party organization to join the party. The author has created a series of vivid typical images of farmers and rural cadres, and demonstrated the historical process of difficult exploration in rural socialist construction, which is worthy of publication.

Grasshopper

Grasshopper

General Fiction

Wang Zhaojun

317K0

"Grasshopper" depicts the rural life in the Huanghuai region in the first half of the 20th century. This is a period when the old system has collapsed and the new system and new culture have not yet taken shape. The social life of the lower class has shown many special phenomena, such as gangsterism, the implementation of the new laws of the Republic of China, the impact of the influx of urban industrial products on traditional rural life, the demise of the gentry society, etc. Out of fear of the locust plague, the locals built a temple for the so-called "grasshopper god". The residents around the small temple are ordinary farmers. They destroy themselves like weeds, but each has their own characteristics and survival instincts that make these legends at the bottom of society endless. Social changes, the emergence of new ideas, the game of various political forces, the truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, evil and ugliness in human nature have all appeared one after another, writing a colorful and bloody local history and humanities picture.

Earn a Life

Earn a Life

General Fiction

Wu Yesheng Wu Xiaohong

322K0

"Earning Life" is a novel written by Wu Yesheng and Wu Xiaohong and has the characteristics of Huizhou dialect. It objectively reflects the process of an ordinary family in Dashan struggling with their fate before and after the founding of New China, struggling to live, and gradually taking the initiative in their destiny. Earning one's life has two meanings in Huizhou dialect: one is a derogatory meaning, indicating that people at the bottom of society have been tossing and struggling, but in the end they have not made a name for themselves; the other is a positive meaning, which means struggling against fate in order to realize their good wishes. A series of small characters in the book, including the male and female protagonists, are all "earning their lives" in more or less different ways. Some started from nothing, "earned their lives" and finally achieved great success; some "earned their lives" came and "earned their lives" but still had nothing; some "earned their lives" vigorously, and finally gave up their lives; some earned their lives for the country and the collective, and some earned their lives for themselves and their families... The time span of the book is from 1939 to 1979. The protagonist Chen Songshou grew up in an ordinary family in Mingxi Village. Family changes occurred when his eldest brother borrowed a loan shark to get married. After the land was sold, the family fell apart. He and his third sister depended on each other. They grew up fighting various social injustices, developing an unyielding character and supporting the family early on. He was trained by his "cousin" (New Fourth Army) since he was a child, became one of the first members of the Communist Party of China after the founding of New China, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the construction of the new society. He was seriously injured while burning a lime kiln. During his years as a village cadre, he dealt with various difficult incidents such as injuries and deaths. He built lime kilns, water tillers, oil pressing plants and hydropower stations for the village. He cleverly weathered three years of natural disasters by opening up wasteland and cultivating the land according to the time. In order to increase collective income, he led a team to make kilns and burn kilns, etc. Liu Hongyan, a girl from the same village, took a fancy to him, but he was introduced to Hu Qiongxiang from a neighboring village, attended a collective wedding, and gave birth to seven children. During this period, his children and his wife fell ill, and the family became poor due to illness, making it difficult to tide over the difficulties. When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, Chen Songshou seized the opportunity to guide his children to study and enter college, and successfully sent them to colleges and universities. They became top scorers in five subjects and became a legend. Chen Songshou's ability to balance family education with collective construction still has practical significance for modern family management and rural revitalization.

Babasha

Babasha

General Fiction

Chen Yufu

153K0

After more than half a century of unremitting efforts, hundreds of thousands of acres of desert have been turned into oasis. The "Six Old Men" and their descendants have successively managed nearly 400,000 acres of desert, forming a green barrier to prevent wind and sand and set back the sand line by 15 kilometers, effectively curbing the passive situation of sand advancing and people retreating, and ensuring the development of local industrial and agricultural production and the ecological security of the people. Their condensed spiritual backbone held up the clear sky in Babusha, and wrote a tragic, heroic, evocative story...

Run All the Way

Run All the Way

General Fiction

Li Wanjun

118K0

Through the elaboration and description of Chen Qin's family's struggle to live a good life, a series of positive characters such as Yang Lao, Yang Jianming, and Li Yangqiao were created, and the rich history and culture, red culture, and green mountains and green waters of a place in the west were displayed. From one side, it reflected the fighting spirit of a small mountain village under the leadership of the Communist Party of China for a hundred years and the difficult process of revitalizing the countryside. It promoted the positive energy of the times and developed the new culture of the times.

Snowy Mountains and Land (winner of the 11th Mao Dun Literature Award)

Yang Zhijun

531K9.110

The snow-capped mountains have always nourished the creatures on the earth with the great power of motherhood. Writer Yang Zhijun, who was born and raised here, looks back fondly on the arduous explorations of his father, mother and generations of grassland builders, and writes about the great changes of the times in high-altitude areas and the spiritual path of grassland herders. The novel not only has a strong sense of urgency in facing grassland problems, but also the unconcealed passion and optimism in the text that truly reflects the grassland people's solution to problems and the construction of a new grassland. The poetic language forms a unique narrative style. The work not only truly presents the harshness of grassland life, but also is full of poetic flavor.

Silent Oak Tree

Silent Oak Tree

General Fiction

Hao Ke

149K0

In the early 1980s, the male protagonist Jiang Jinfeng graduated from high school and became a private teacher in the school. He went into work with full enthusiasm and the ideal of educating future generations, but after working, he felt the gap between ideal and reality, the intertwining of pride and vanity, which often made him fall into confusion and contemplation about life. However, his conscience as a teacher and his pursuit of a better life made him quickly get out of his emotional trough, treat his students well, value education, and embrace the future with poetic passion. In the process of striving to pursue his dreams, he gained sweet love and strengthened his educational ideals.

She Village Sister-in-law

Wang Weiyue

155K0

This novel tells the story of a rural grassroots cadre of the party who leads the villagers to collectively get rich and move toward rural revitalization. Lan Yingni, a girl from the rural She ethnic group, was born with a good voice. Under the influence of her music teacher, she dreamed of becoming an actress. Because of the national construction of the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station, she and her fellow villagers moved from western Zhejiang to a place called Huwan in Hecheng County, eastern Jiangxi. Two music teachers who were kind to her left her one after another, and her father also sacrificed himself to save others in the flood. It was difficult to realize her dream of being an actress, and she was full of confusion about the future. Inspired by the spirit of her father and fellow villagers who worked hard to build a new life, she devoted herself to the struggle to build her hometown. She joined the party, gained love, and basked in the spring breeze of rural reform and opening up. She became a rich person in Hecheng County. She served as the village committee director and branch secretary, leading the villagers on the road to collective wealth. However, the road ahead is not smooth... After untold hardships, we finally led the villagers to achieve collective wealth and embark on the road of rural revitalization, realizing the dreams of all the villagers.

Shoulder Bearer

Shoulder Bearer

General Fiction

Liao Xiaoyun

160K0

"The Passenger on the Shoulder" is a novel with the theme of Hakkas in southern Jiangxi. The novel has a strong regional color and humanistic flavor. This is a work that pays homage to the Hakka sages who endured hardships and hardships. In ancient times, there were many mountains and few fields in southern Jiangxi. Under the exploitation of landlords, the working people had "no roof, no earth, no place to stand on their homes." At that time, many young and middle-aged people had no choice but to travel far away and make a living by carrying shoulder loads. The team of shoulder loaders was very large, and shoulder load carrying became the main method of goods circulation in mountainous areas. But carrying a shoulder load is also difficult and full of dangers, and you may even lose your life. The object of the novel is such a man who earns a living by selling coolies. The author conducted a large number of interviews and collected information. This ancient professional picture is restored. The shoulder-carrying passengers are people who walk on the road all year round. Through their experiences and knowledge, they connect the customs, culture, mountains and scenery of southern Gansu. This is an unfolding picture of the Hakka people in southern Jiangxi, and it is also a rich history.

Build a Dream

Build a Dream

General Fiction

Huang Jialiang

188K0

"Building Dreams" is a novel that the author has polished for more than 20 years. By deeply exploring the cultural resources of the Hakka people in southern Jiangxi and using the left-behind rural groups as an entry point, it creates a typical image of Qiu Qi, a young man working outside, who overcomes difficulties and returns to his hometown to start a mountainous ecological ranch, striving towards his dream.

Xiaowan: a Woman Who Works Hard to Live

It's Lao Jiu

121K0

She was born with the death of her biological mother. After being told by a fortune teller that her fortune was incompatible with her parents and relatives, she was deemed unknown by her family... Although her fate was unfortunate, she still lived a serious life and won her own happiness in the ups and downs of her life.

The Red Moon in Pinglefang

Li Zhizhan

144K0

The author Li Zhizhan is a cutting-edge writer from Henan who was born in 1988. His collection of works "Dusk at Gubuyan" was included in the 21st Century Literary Star Series. This book is his debut novel and has been serialized in the 2022 Issues 5 and 6 of "Novel Monthly·Original Edition". "Red Moon in Pinglefang" has distinctive Lingnan characteristics, with night markets, streets, snacks... Full of fireworks. The upper part of the work is about the present, about the life changes and joys and sorrows of a group of locals who live in the market and make snacks as a profession; the lower part is about the past, when a girl of low status fell in love with the son of a rich man. They struggled to find their own destiny, and eventually became separated on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and could not see each other again. Later, with the reform and opening up, the two people reunited, but they were already running on their own life paths and had no chance to renew their relationship. The fates of the characters in the upper and lower parts are intertwined, but the writing methods are different. The upper part focuses on a vigorous and vigorous love-hate relationship, while the lower part is quiet and affectionate.

Xu Mao and His Daughters

Zhou Keqin

179K01

The novel is set in the social life of a remote rural area in Sichuan in the winter of 1979. Through the life stories of the old farmer Xu Mao and his daughters, it profoundly reflects the changing social landscape of the late 1970s and foreshadows the bright and beautiful prospects that will emerge after the turmoil ends. The novel won the Mao Dun Literature Award.

Qin Opera

Qin Opera

General Fiction

Jia Pingwa

430K01

"Qinqiang" focuses on a village in southern Shaanxi and tells the story of the relationship between farmers and their land and the living conditions of farmers. Through the eyes of a "madman" named Yinsheng, it writes about the deep worries and deep sympathy for the heavy burden on farmers and the loss of rural culture. The work interprets the 20-year history of China's rural areas with solemn brushstrokes, focusing on the huge and profound changes in rural values ​​​​and traditional patterns, as well as the profound changes in interpersonal relationships in the traditional patterns. It is "an epic volume of contemporary Chinese rural areas." This book took nearly two years to complete and the draft was revised four times. It is the work that the author took the longest, revised the most, and took the most painstaking efforts. Won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award.

Skywalker

Skywalker

General Fiction

Liu Xinglong

202K0

"Skywalker" is an excellent novel based on the life of rural private teachers. It is set in a rural primary school deep in the mountains. 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 vividly and truly depicts the collective image of rural private teachers, describes multiple aspects of their inner world, and gives people a strong ideological and artistic impact. Anyone who has read this novel will be deeply moved by the simple, perseverance, selfless and selfless survival perseverance and spiritual quality of the rural private teachers described by the author. The book adheres to the author's consistent style of realism and focuses on a corner of Chinese society with delicate brushstrokes and simple words.

Tumultuous Autumn

Tumultuous Autumn

General Fiction

Liu Yumin

218K0

"The Turbulent Autumn" is Liu Yumin's masterpiece. It is a novel that reflects the tremendous changes in rural appearance and interpersonal relationships under the impact of the commodity economy. It won the 4th Mao Dun Literature Award. "The Autumn of Turmoil" not only describes the various commotions aroused by Yue Pengcheng, a "peasant reformer" in reforming the appearance of his hometown: from the attention of provincial, municipal and county party committee leaders to the publicity of national and provincial public opinion on marriage registration, from the ancient legend of Li Longshan to the inscriptions on the tablets in the back hall of King Li Temple The names of Yue Pengcheng and Dasangyuan are written down... But at the same time, it also focuses on the various turmoils in Yue Pengcheng's heart, the father-son conflict caused by the conflict between his and his son's different opinions on the reform; his relationship with Qiuling led to the conflict with his wife and the intensification of family conflicts...

Bailuyuan

Bailuyuan

General Fiction

Chen Zhongshi

461K0

This is a majestic epic of fifty years of changes in the Weihe Plain, a colorful and thrilling long picture of China's rural villages. Two generations of descendants of a family have been fighting for the dominance of Bailuyuan from generation to generation: they exploit feng shui, use beauty tricks, a filial son becomes a bandit, a father-in-law kills his daughter-in-law, brothers love each other, lovers turn against each other... The Great Revolution, the Japanese invasion, and three years of civil war, Bailuyuan is ups and downs, the king's flag changes, family feuds and national hatreds are intertwined, and grievances are repaid from generation to generation... The ancient land is shaking in the throes of new life. The novel takes Bailu Village on Bailuyuan in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province as a microcosm. By telling the grievances and disputes between three generations of two families named Bai and Lu, it shows the historical changes that lasted for more than half a century from the late Qing Dynasty to the 1970s and 1980s.

Furong Town

Furong Town

General Fiction

Guhua

146K02

"Furong Town" is a full-length novel written by Gu Hua. The author has included and condensed the people and things he is familiar with in the southern villages into this book, describing the social customs of southern China's rural areas from 1963 to 1979. The novel combines historical events with pictures of customs and folk customs, uses the fate of the characters to play out the changes in rural life, and depicts the color and mood of life in rural southern China. The novel was published in "Contemporary" in 1981 and won the first Mao Dun Literature Award the following year.

Lakes and Mountains

Lakes and Mountains

General Fiction

Zhou Daxin

232K0

"Lake Lights and Mountains" is a novel by Zhou Daxin that won the Mao Dun Literature Award. The book takes as the protagonist an ordinary Henan woman who returned to the countryside from the city, tells the story of the struggle of rural entrepreneurial youth, and reflects the various social and ecological issues that rural areas need to face in the process of China's reform and opening up, such as conceptual changes, cultural transformation, and adjustments to interpersonal relationships. The novel has vivid characters, touching love, and tight-paced contradictions. It is a rare and important work of rural literature in the new era. The book has been adapted into a TV series and has a good reputation among readers.

The Sunset is Vast

The Sunset is Vast

General Fiction

Huang Zhimou Ya Hanzhang

210K0

The novel takes as its main line the family story of the last two generations of chieftains Wei Songyuan and Wei Caiwen, father and son, in a certain place in Guangxi. It reflects the rise, fall and decline of the feudal chieftain system. After extensive monograph research and several field interviews, the author has written a tragic elegy about the last chieftain of the Zhuang ethnic group, trying to reflect the decline of the entire chieftain system from the perspective of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi and even all ethnic minority areas that once implemented the chieftain system.

Bai Dongshan Hunter

Bai Dongshan Hunter

General Fiction

Wolong Xiaoxiaosheng

119K0

This is a true story about the relationship between an old hunter and animals. The story is full of fantasy and twists and turns. The story reveals the dangers of human nature, the self-reliance and untrustworthiness of humans, as well as the tolerance and self-confidence of animals that make humans feel ashamed, the alternative kindness, the kind of noble souls that exist in the animal world that are difficult for the world to understand, and the unique noble qualities of animals. This book brings people thinking about human nature, how humans and the animal world can get along better, and the kind of trust and kindness in the animal world.

Hot Land

Hot Land

General Fiction

Zhao Binlu

132K0

Under the correct leadership of the local party committee, and under the leadership of team leader Li Weimin, the village work team thought about what the people were thinking and worried about their concerns, and was determined to work with the two committees of Zoujiazhai Village to rectify the source, rectify the rural order, and eradicate the stubborn land diseases in the past. However, some people reacted fiercely and became tense, and some cadres went out of their way to cope with the situation passively, resulting in complicated conflicts and problems one after another... The novel realistically depicts the entire process of the battle that took place in Zoujiazhai during the fight against poverty, and truly reflects all aspects of the work in the countryside. The work is close to life and the language is plain and easy to read. It is a masterpiece that reflects the frontline work of poverty alleviation.

Hunting God

Hunting God

General Fiction

Wang Yuliang

130K0

This book is a full-length novel that shows the development of Oroqen in the past hundred years. The novel shows the magnificent jungle life of Oroqen from an objective perspective and in a panoramic manner. It especially eulogizes the Oroqen nation's national righteousness from being forced to consciously resisting Japan after being invaded by Japanese invaders. Oroqen loves the big forest, is close to the big forest, and makes the forest their home. They are worthy of being the hunting gods of the Xing'an Mountains! The novel also objectively displays Oroqen's confusion, contradiction and helplessness when he put down his shotgun and walked out of the forest.

Furukawa Love and Sorrow

Wang Hongyan

110K0

In the form of memories, the novel tells the story of husband An Dacheng and his wife Qin Xiao'e's past lives in Guhe Village, which is northeast of "Escape from Deer City", such as the death of their children, their sister's escape from marriage, and the death of their father. The stories of "doctor", "midwife", "barber" and others serve as branches of the novel, which embody the spirit of self-improvement and hard work of the people of Furukawa village headed by An Dacheng, and the theme of "happiness is achieved through struggle" hidden in the novel.

There is Bright Sun Every Day

Kang Zhigang

234K0

During the democratic election of the village director in Baishu Village, Li Lianchun, who left the village and owned a construction company in the city, resolutely gave up his career and returned to his hometown to compete for the position. In the contest with Liu Tun, the leading figure in the village, he relied on his wisdom and integrity to fight with him. Although he was always cunning and despicable, he was always waiting for opportunities, but in the end justice defeated evil. This novel is a true portrayal of China's contemporary rural democratization process and the construction of a new countryside.

Dongjiahuo·xijiayan

Dongjiahuo·xijiayan

General Fiction

Water Boy

81K0

This is a film set in the countryside of eastern Hebei Province, describing the rise and fall of the Wu family in Wudaizhuang Village after the Tangshan earthquake. In the land of eastern Hebei, there is a small village named Wudaizhuang, which was awarded to the ancestor Wu Fan by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, my great-grandfather Wu Tongmao falsely conveyed an imperial edict, claiming that he had won the first prize in the examination. When the emperor found out, he wanted to kill all the people in the village. Later, the father of the great-grandfather who taught in Liu Shige Village and all the villagers in Liu Shige Village jointly signed a letter, and the lives of all the villagers were saved. However, the emperor decreed that from now on, no one from Wudaizhuang Village could be an official for the fourth generation, and the author happened to be the fourth generation. The author experienced the Tangshan Earthquake when she was born, and her parents rebuilt their home on the ruins. The forty years of reform and opening up that she experienced were also the forty years of the rise and fall of the entire family and village. The rise and fall of a family is also the rise and fall of a village, or even the entire countryside. Finally, after four generations of hard work, the curse was finally broken, and the author walked out of this barren land and realized the dream that his ancestors had always dreamed of.

The Eternal Flow of the Yellow River

Gao Linzhao

367K0

The novel is based on the Kang Wanwan family on the banks of Heluo River. It reflects how several generations of the Zheng family followed the trend for nearly a hundred years from 1840 to the 1920s, accumulating wealth and becoming the richest people in the Central Plains. Later, with the turmoil of the times, the family business plummeted, and the younger generation participated in the revolution to seek new life, and the historical process of ups and downs of destiny. The novel uses the fate of characters and the rise and fall of families as bright lines, and social changes and national peril as dark lines. It expresses deep feelings about family and country and human compassion. It also focuses on the natural features and cultural landscapes on the banks of the Yellow River, and has a strong cultural flavor of the Yellow River. The author internalizes his understanding and interpretation of traditional Chinese culture into the words and deeds of the characters, such as Confucianism's self-cultivation and family governance, self-restraint and restoration of rituals, internal sainthood and external kingship, as well as ways to conduct oneself in the world, business strategies, etc., Which demonstrates the profoundness and inner light of traditional Chinese culture.

Singing Apple Tree

Singing Apple Tree

General Fiction

Yan Xuewen

196K0

"The Singing Apple Tree" is a full-length novel that adopts a child's perspective and shows the Shanxi countryside in the 1980s and 1990s. The story is simple, fluent, and fast-paced. It is a hearty and high-paced fruit country pastoral. The story begins when a couple is separated due to poverty. Aunt Cuicui gets married in tears, and Uncle Junlai bids farewell to each other on a high hill with a trumpet. Uncle Junlai's comrade-in-arms Yan Zilong came to the mountain village and brought hope to the young farmers who were poor and wanted to change. Uncle Junlai and Jinwa's father were resolute and followed Yan Zilong to plant apple trees and also plant hope trees. Many hardships have plagued people who are bent on getting rich. They have gone through setbacks and never changed their original aspirations. They carefully tend and maintain fruit trees and implement new technologies. Eventually, the apple industry became a pillar industry for local farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich. The diligent efforts of the parents provide good influence and good guidance to the next generation, and the children also use their own efforts to repay their relatives and society.

Great Changes in the Mountain Country: Dialect Annotated Edition

Written By Zhou Libo And Annotated By Zou Li

331K0

"Great Changes in Mountains and Villages" is a novel written by Zhou Libo, a people's writer in the 1950s, who went deep into Yiyang and took root among the people. It reflects the agricultural cooperative movement in our country. It has been loved by readers for more than 60 years since its publication. The phrase "great changes in mountains and villages" has also become a spiritual resource for us today, inspiring us to write "great changes in mountains and villages" in the new era. "Great Changes in Mountains and Villages" uses a large number of dialects and common sayings in Yiyang, central Hunan, and is rich in local color. In order to enable today's readers, especially young readers, to overcome reading difficulties, stimulate their interest in reading, and fully appreciate the unique language, style and artistic realm of the work, experts from the Zhou Libo Research Center of Central South University made detailed annotations on the folk customs and dialects of Yiyang (approximately 200 places) chapter by chapter based on the first edition of "Great Changes in Mountain Villages" (the first volume was published in 1958 and the second volume in 1960 by Writers Press).

Find Signal

Find Signal

General Fiction

Sonam Gave Way

113K0

"Looking for Signals" is a new collection of novels by Lu Xun Literature Prize winner Suo Nan Cairang, which shows the real living conditions and spiritual imprints of grassland people in the wave of the times. Suonan Cairang describes life in alpine grassland pastoral areas, showing the rough and real natural environment and the details of herdsmen's lives in an appropriate and nuanced way. He has a unique ability to capture the herdsmen's spiritual world, such as the "mutual support" relationship between humans and animals, and the changes in herdsmen's life attitudes when nomadic culture faces the impact of modern civilization.

Jiashan

Jiashan

General Fiction

Wang Yuewen

436K03

The novel describes a southern village called Shawan and its surrounding areas, and the various changes people have experienced in the world over the past eighty years from the 1920s to the new century. It focuses on the stories of three and four generations of several families, including the former Qing Dynasty official Yigong and his three sons, the entanglement between the "Master Zhigen" who was in charge of the land bookkeeping in each township and his bastard son, the story of the village chief and the son of an underground party member of the Chinese Communist Party, the story of the "township master" Taoxiang who went to the county Yamen to win the lawsuit and her family; and the soul The character is Duke Youde. He speaks for the interests of the villagers, upholds justice in the countryside, provides relief to the poor, and speaks out for justice. He protects the families of the Red Army from massacre. He supports the second generation of promising young people, including his only son, to establish new schools in the countryside. He supports Yangqing, the third son of Yigong who studied in Japan, to build water conservancy. He is a respected figure in the village. The novel has a strong local flavor and is an excellent work depicting the scenery and people in rural China.

The Road Traveled

The Road Traveled

General Fiction

Feng Shaolong

109K0

Through the description of the relevant experiences, mutual interactions and knowledge of a rural family member, this book intuitively and truly shows the customs and customs of a remote mountain village in western Liaoning in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the human fireworks of a group of ordinary people. Through the seemingly ordinary things experienced by the protagonist Xinping, this book leads readers to touch the blood of a family and triggers readers to think about the fate of the characters. Through Xinping's journey out of the countryside, every detail in the process of working and starting a business in the city, and finally decisively returning to his family to find the original appearance of life, it triggers readers to think more deeply about life ideals, human nature and life.

Four Images

Four Images

General Fiction

Liang Hong

120K0

"The Story of Leaving Liangzhuang" and "China in Liangzhuang" are novels written by Liang Hong. A Christian elder, a foreign military attaché, an IT elite, a girl who knows all plants well... Four characters, four appearances, their life experiences are closely intertwined, linking together the long and tortuous story of a village. They came with the secrets of Liangzhuang, full of urgency, passion and ups and downs. They were familiar with human wisdom and all desires, and their vision was to build an utopia in the reality of Liangzhuang. Unexpectedly, differences had already been quietly buried... Living and dead, above and below ground, history and present... They are still a part of us, and their stories continue.

Ordinary People

Ordinary People

General Fiction

Han Qingxian

326K0

This book is the fourth rural novel written by the author. Based on what Zhao Shunhe saw, heard and felt as a child, this book originally reproduces the people, stories, natural environment and social features of Houhangzhuang, Shanmiao Commune, Runshui County, northern Jiangsu in the 1970s and 1980s. In the book, the author skillfully selects five ordinary families from the three families of Zhao, Han, and Gao, and spares no effort to show the intricate interpersonal relationships and conflicts and grievances between different families in detail. He praises the generation of young people represented by Zhao Lianfu who did not choose to give up on themselves in the midst of suffering, but fought bravely in the wave of the development of the times, composing a hymn to life with confidence and kindness.

That Land

That Land

General Fiction

Liu Jingxia

110K0

The twists and turns and rewards of changing to rice, the hardship and vulgarity of retting hemp, the struggle and helplessness to save the bay horse, all represent the hardship, simplicity and persistence of rural and farmer life. Affected by the special time and space environment, Nie Ping, who didn't like rough things at all, went against the norm and "farmed" with ordinary farmers, sowing the land and sowing dreams... "I" and "you", "I" and "Nie Ping", "I" and myself are one person and "other" to each other. In the process of in-depth listening and telling, each other recalled, visited and asked: "What have we done?" "What should we do?" "What is reality?" A university professor who stood on the salt flat and wrote, through the shining moments of a girl conquering the salt flat, showed the original beauty and creation of human beings in the mysterious and profound rotation movement, and frankly presented this truth: "Time gives far more than it deprives."

Happy You Gang

Happy You Gang

General Fiction

Wu Chu

191K0

Yuer, a rogue in Youcun, welcomed children with congenital anal atresia one after another. After examination, there may be a genetic factor. On the doctor's advice, You Er gritted his teeth and spent 20,000 yuan. He took his wife Hongmei, who was pregnant for the third time, to the provincial hospital for gene correction treatment. This time, Hongmei gave birth to a healthy baby - You Gang. However, the good times did not last long. When You Gang was six years old, a rumor with a "scientific theoretical basis" began to spread in the village: Due to the gene therapy he received before birth, You Gang was not You Er's "purebred" son, and his body was mixed with the blood of other men. Six-year-old You Gang was nicknamed a "bastard" and "bastard". He faced his tragic fate at a loss until his other biological father appeared...

Exit Letter

Exit Letter

General Fiction

Liang Xiaoyang

521K0

The author started writing in 2003 and ended in 2018. The writing spans as long as fifteen years, recording and narrating the vicissitudes of two generations from the mainland to Xinjiang in more than fifty years. The book has a polyphonic structure. One main line tells about the vicissitudes of the past generation who blindly fled to Xinjiang to escape suffering; the other main line tells about "I" who persisted in traveling back and forth between Xinjiang and Guangxi for fifteen years in order to realize his literary dream, accompany his wife to visit relatives, and escape the pain caused by life in the south, and finally completed the "transition" of his soul. This book is a work selected for the 2016 fixed-point in-depth life project of the Chinese Writers Association.

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