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When we leave our hometown, we are geographically and regionally foreigners; when we go to a foreign country, we are ethnically and nationally foreigners; however, when we return to our homeland, we may be institutionally and spiritually foreigners. As Haruki Murakami said: "No matter where we are, some part of us is a stranger." This overlap and dislocation between hometown and foreign land, hometown people and foreigners, this kind of light and dark zone, may be the place where many of us modern people start...

Literature makes the ordinary scenery that can be seen everywhere in our lives have unusual style and heritage, triggers our wonderful feelings and associations, and makes our lives poetic. Compared with those who do not understand literature, people who understand literature have many times richer spiritual lives, many times more delicate spiritual textures, and therefore many times more happiness and joy. Literature exists all the time and everywhere. Literature may seem useless, but in fact it is of great use. Uselessness is of great use!

Compared with the "great loneliness" of Qu Yuan and other ancients who asked questions about the heaven and the earth and worried about the country and the people, our loneliness, especially the loneliness of most city people, seems to be called "little loneliness." It may come from the dilution of individual existence caused by the surging technological wave, it may come from the questioning of personal subjectivity by various surveillance cameras, or it may come from the dissolution of poetic dwelling by materialism and consumerism... Such loneliness seems to be ethereal and always lingering, seems to be irrelevant and sometimes unforgettable, seems to be pretentious yet so real.

When we leave our hometown, we are geographically and regionally foreigners; when we go to a foreign country, we are ethnically and nationally foreigners; however, when we return to our homeland, we may be institutionally and spiritually foreigners. As Haruki Murakami said: "No matter where we are, some part of us is a stranger." This overlap and dislocation between hometown and foreign land, hometown people and foreigners, this kind of light and dark zone, may be the place where many of us modern people start...

Beauty is healing, Purple Picture Aesthetic Literature Series. "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair": All love has the right to express, and when you have something to say to the person you love deeply, Neruda's poems will naturally find accurate and beautiful language for you. "I Walked into the Quiet Blue Day": In order to treat his depression, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse left Germany and lived in seclusion in a beautiful mountain village in Ticino, Switzerland. He observed and experienced nature and created a collection of 38 essays and poems. This book contains a selection of illustrations created by him at the same time. Hesse took contemplation of the beauty of nature as a practice of self-healing in Ticino, which became a model for young people around the world to practice, and this work also became a guiding text for self-healing.

This book writes about what he saw and felt when newspaper reporter Li Shoubai went to the "front line" for interviews during the warlord era. Of course, there is also the emotional entanglement between himself and the woman nicknamed "Peace Flower" Han Xiaomei and the privet girl in the restaurant. Both women were interested in him, but he was undecided about which one to choose. In the end, both relationships ended in vain.

This book depicts a tragedy and comedy based on the love entanglement between Yang Guizhi, a girl from Haidian in Beijing during the Republic of China, Zhao Ziqiang, a young officer, and Gan Jizhi, a son of an official. It praised the loyalty and patriotism of lower-level officers and ordinary people, and criticized the selfishness and hypocrisy of some middle- and upper-level officers and scholar-bureaucrats.

This novel is based on the current situation after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It describes the experiences of several protagonists who have made great achievements in the Taiping Army and possess special skills. They performed chivalrous acts and fought against injustice in the arena. The whole book is divided into three climaxes: the heroes come to rescue, the story of gangs, the history of Han Tingfu and others, but the legend of the knights, and the suppression of bandits by Zhang Sangong, full of military tactics and ingenuity. The whole book features Chai Jing as a guest character. The plot clues are complex and intertwined, creating suspense and gripping. "Sword, Dan, Qin and Heart" has no strange powers or chaotic gods, no fantasy heroes, but only skills. It is this simple and natural way of writing that achieves the realm of "plain and close to nature".

"Snowy Night" tells a series of stories about the general's five sons and their mother's difficulties in life after the decline of their family. In the winter in Peiping, the declining Deng family lived in a rented courtyard house, and the weather was cold and the family had no food. After experiencing all kinds of ravages and looks from life and the world, the five sons worked together and worked hard. "Beyond Stone City" Jin Danran is a small civil servant. Because he felt the sweltering heat in the city and was laid off, his family moved to the countryside. He met the girl Ju Xiang in the countryside, and his wife Suying was wary and jealous of the two of them. Jin Danran deliberately distanced himself from Ju Xiang. Juxiang's father is a gambler and wants to sell Juxiang. Juxiang and her mother live in hiding in other villages. When Suying returned to the city for shopping, Jin Danran inspected the countryside. When he met Juxiang by chance, he came to his rescue and sent Juxiang to a work-study school. Later, because Suying was too bored in the country life, Jin Danran also had friends in the city and got a higher position. When Jin Danran went to the city again, he asked Juxiang to watch a movie together. After the movie, Suying appeared in the back row of the two of them. After all, they failed to go to the countryside, but they succeeded in bringing rural people to the city.

This book was written in 1945 and is China's first modern war history novel. The book directly describes the famous battle - the Battle of Changde. The 57th Division of the 74th Army, codenamed "Hu Ben", was surrounded by more than 60,000 Japanese troops and fought hard for more than ten days, fighting bloody battles with the Japanese invaders before they defended Changde. There were more than 8,000 people in the army, but only 83 survived in the end. The tone of the book is tragic, generous and majestic.

The scholar paused and shouted loudly, "If the country can use me, why don't I die?" This is a true portrayal of Mr. Zhang Henshui's mentality of persisting in resisting Japan and serving the country to the death during the Anti-Japanese War. After the Nanjing Massacre, Zhang Henshui submitted a petition to the government, requesting to go to the mountains to fight guerrillas at his own expense, but there was no way out. He put his strong patriotic enthusiasm and loneliness on paper, and created a large number of anti-Japanese novels based on real people and true stories, leaving many precious histories of the Chinese nation's resistance to foreign invaders. "Bashan Night Rain" is a "painful lesson" from the Anti-Japanese War, and is called the "peak work" of Zhang Henshui's works.

This book was Mr. Zhang Henshui's most influential and popular novel during the Anti-Japanese War, and was also the best-selling novel in the rear area. The literary world praised the book as a "wonderful book"! The author uses the technique of "nineteen fables based on dreams", and the writing is smooth and free. The whole book is full of strange and mysterious suspense, covering the ancient and modern times, vertically and horizontally, and illuminates those issues that are indirectly helpful to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and those that are directly harmful to the Anti-Japanese War. After the Nanjing Massacre, Zhang Henshui submitted a request to the government to fight guerrillas in the mountains. After getting no results, he put his strong patriotic fervor and loneliness on paper and created a large number of realistic and spiritual works.

University teacher Zhou Xiufeng lives alone in a boarding dormitory. He is very anxious because all his friends are in couples. On this spring day, he met Miss Huang Lihua through a friend's introduction. Huang Lihua's beauty impressed Zhou Xiufeng, but at the same time, he felt that her wealthy behavior was unacceptable to him. At the same time, his long-loved neighbor, Yuzi, a poor girl, also expressed her affection for him. He has been hesitating between the two women, but Huang Lihua's superior conditions have been occupying his heart bit by bit...

"Flowers of Blood" is Zhang Henshui's classic masterpiece of anti-war novels. The book was written in Peiping after the "January 28th Incident" in 1932, pioneering the patriotic spy war theme. The heroine of the novel, Shu Jianhua, is a spy of the military and police intelligence agency. She accepts the order of the garrison commander to spy on the enemy's secrets. She interacts with Yu Heming, the captain of the pirate team, which causes the leader of the volunteer army, Hua Guoxiong, to misunderstand and break with Shu Jianhua. However, Hua Guoxiong did not know that the reason why their volunteer army was able to defeat the pirates at Jia Shikou was precisely because Shu Jianhua obtained information from Yu Heming in advance. When the pirates were about to launch a massive counterattack, Shu was ordered to sneak into the county to spy on the enemy's military situation. Unfortunately, he fell into the clutches of Yu Heming and died heroically. "Lucky Stars Along the Road" tells the story of a group of people demobilized from the rear after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. A group of people including Principal Yu Ziqing and his family, Gui Xiaoguang, Li Jiayan and others were preparing to demobilize from Chongqing. However, the transportation was very inconvenient at that time and demobilization was difficult. With the efforts of Gui Xiaoguang, the group finally got the opportunity to take a long-distance bus to demobilize. They experienced various difficulties on the way, including weather disasters, threats from bandits, etc., And they all overcame the difficulties one by one. In the process, Gui Xiaoguang discovered his feelings for Li Jiayan, and persistently pursued the arrogant Li Jiayan, slowly capturing Li Jiayan's heart.

The book uses the love model of one man and three women as the core structure of the story. Through the love tragedy of Fan Jiashu, a young man from Hangzhou living in Beijing, and Shen Fengxi, a Tianqiao singing girl, it reflects a dark and turbulent social aspect during the reign of the Beiyang warlords. "The Cause of Laughter" was originally based on real events in life. Zhang Henshui turned iron into gold through ingenious conception and wrote it into an ups and downs and exciting work that integrates romance, martial arts and society.

The story of "Beauty's Grace" takes place in Beijing in the 1920s. The heroine Chang Xiaonan was born in a poor family at the bottom of the class and made a living by collecting coal cores. Once, he met the unemployed and down-and-out Hong Shiyi. He deeply sympathized with her fate and used his meager income from working as a substitute at a charity to support the Chang family. The two began to fall in love. The beautiful Chang Xiaonan was later spotted by the foreman of the Yangliu Song and Dance Ensemble. From then on, she changed her mind in love. She successively dumped Hong Shiyi and musician Wang Sun, and finally fell into the hands of the playboy Chen Siye, causing the Chang family to be ruined.

During the Anti-Japanese War. Accompany the capital Chongqing. Dark and chaotic, ghosts are rampant. Mr. Ou has been studying all his life and has taught his four children to study hard and make a living using the knowledge they have learned. However, prices in Chongqing have skyrocketed, supplies are in short supply, and people are in dire straits, making it difficult to live on wages. As a result, Mr. Ou's third son abandoned Wen and drove a truck and made a fortune; his second son abandoned medicine and went into business and lived a well-off life; and his eldest son was still a civil servant and was in poverty. The friends, colleagues, neighbors, and relatives around him are all speculative and profit-seeking, working hard day and night to make money. It is truly "tight ahead, tight behind"!

"Si Ren Ji" tells the story of Liang Hanshan, a scholar, and Zhang Meixian, a female poet, who exchanged poems and got to know each other through poems. According to the meaning of "the capital is full of crowns, but the lady is only haggard", it describes the decadent life of the "shi" class in Beijing, the so-called best district during the Beiyang government period, "holding actors, visiting brothels, expelling them with wine and meat", and "playing with romantic literature and art".

This book tells the tragedy of Zeng Bojian, a college student in the Republic of China. He was captured as a young man in a city where warlords were fighting, but accidentally became the secretary of the division commander. He witnessed their ugly behavior of killing, robbing, and raping women in the warlords' troops. Until the Japanese army invaded the city, he escaped from a devil's cave and fell into the public opinion of being a traitor. Finally, he left his hometown and organized a guerrilla group to fight to the death with the Japanese army.

During the Republic of China, intellectual Cheng Zhiqian and job seekers Li Shilian, Zhang Jiefu and others took a German car to Xi'an and settled in the city's hotel "Little West Sky". In Xiaoxitian, Li Shilian and Zhang Jiefu learned that Cheng Zhiqian had relationships with many senior officials in Shaanxi, so they fawned over Zhiqian and were despised by Zhiqian. Jia Duocai, a banker living in "Xiaoxitian", fell in love with Hu Yueying, a woman who had fled from Gansu, and wanted to buy it. Wang Beihai, a student of Cheng Zhiqian, also fell in love with Hu Yueying, which led to various troubles. Li Shilian, Zhang Jiefu and the down-and-out girl Yang Huanhua all wanted Jia Duocai, so they worked together to accomplish this for Jia Duocai. However, Jia Duocai was not at peace after buying Hu Yueying, and thus got into trouble with the commissioner's wife. At the same time, he asked Wang Beihai for bank business, and finally let Yueying go. Yueying and Beihai finally got married, while Cheng Zhiqian left Xiaoxitian and continued his inspection trip to the northwest. The hotel "Xiao Xitian" in Xi'an is still hosting all kinds of people, and stories of joys and sorrows are happening there.

This book uses the allusion that all five sons of Dou Yanshan were admitted to the imperial examination during the Five Dynasties, and takes the family history of Jin Ziyuan, the reception commissioner in Peking, as a clue. It makes a bitter mockery of a series of shameless and shameless behaviors of Kuomintang reception officials who frantically demanded and possessed "gold, houses, cars, women, and money." It is a "record of the officialdom on the eve of the collapse of the Kuomintang regime."

This book tells the story of a pair of young men and women in the transitional era who fought against feudalism, but the feudal victory was not complete. Li Xiaoqiu, the son of the magistrate of Qingjiang County, was sent to a private school in the countryside. He fell in love with Chunhua, the daughter of his husband, at first sight. Unfortunately, Chunhua had already been married to someone else. They both wanted to be together, but in the end they could not resist the oppression of feudal forces, and they broke up in pain to settle down with each other. Many years later, Chunhua, who has given birth to two sons, meets Xiaoqiu again at her parents' home, and is now the leader of the revolutionary army. Things have changed, and even the tide of reform and equality cannot liberate the years that have passed. Chunhua has mixed feelings, but she can only watch the wild geese flying north and south, unable to do anything.

This book describes the ups and downs of young Zhou Jichun's life. When Zhou Jichun was a boy, his family was poor. His mother died young and his father made a living by farming alone, unable to support Ji Chun's studies. Because Ji Chun was smart and hard-working, Principal Liu of the school helped him and persuaded his father to support his studies. His father Zhou Shiliang learned that his son was talented and could achieve great things in life through learning, so he decided to support him with all his strength. When Zhou Jichun went to middle school in the provincial capital, Zhou Shiliang sold his land, opened a tofu shop in the provincial capital, and took care of his son's studies. At this time, he also met Hong and Jufen, and Jufen became the prospective daughter-in-law of the Zhou family. However, with the closure of the middle school, Ji Chun also moved to Beijing to study with the principal Feng Ziyun. However, while studying, without the care of his father, Ji Chun met Kong Lingyi, the daughter of the original tofu shop tenant, and his friend Yuan Peizhu. Later, he met the dancer Lu Qingmei, and gradually abandoned his studies and indulged in fun and vanity. In the end, his father Zhou Shiliang and his intended wife Ju Fen both died because of it.

"Peacock Flying Southeast" is adapted from the long narrative poem "Peacock Flying Southeast" of the same name, based on a marriage tragedy that occurred in Lujiang County (now Huaining and Qianshan, Anhui) during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It mainly tells the story of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi who were forced to separate and commit suicide. It accuses the cruelty and ruthlessness of feudal ethics and praises the sincere feelings and resistance spirit of Jiao and Liu. "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" tells the story of Sima Xiangru's visit to Zhuo's family. He played and sang "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" in the lobby of Zhuo's family, which made Zhuo Wenjun, who was listening behind the curtain, excited. After meeting Sima Xiangru, they fell in love at first sight and they both agreed to elope. After Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru returned to Chengdu, facing the situation where their family was living in poverty, they generously returned to their hometown in Linqiong to open a wine shop and sold wine as a bartender, which finally made their father, who wanted to save face, admit their love.

When Yang Xingyuan, a talented man from Anhui Province, lived in Beijing, he fell in love at first sight with Liyun, a young prostitute. When Li Yun was seriously ill, he guarded her day and night and vowed to live forever. However, the beauty's fate was poor. Not long after they met, Li Yun passed away. Yang Xingyuan was so depressed that she vomited blood and buried her photo in the soil, accompanying Li Yun. Later, Yang Xingyuan met the talented girl Li Dongqing. After spending time with each other and singing poetry, Yang Xingyuan fell deeply in love with Li Dongqing, but Li Dongqing had a congenital disease and had no chance of marriage. Li Dongqing tried every means to make the good relationship between Shi Kelian and Yang Xingyuan possible. However, Yang Xingyuan gave up her deep relationship with Li Dongqing and fell in love with Li Dongqing even more. In order to fulfill Yang and Li's love, Shi Kelian wisely retreated. After many twists and turns, Yang Xingyuan became disheartened about marriage and turned to Buddhism.

Beijing Qiantai flower farmer Liu Desheng, because of the opportunity to sell flowers, worked under the manager Wang of the bookstore and became a gardener. Because he offended the manager's distinguished guests, he changed his job to become a third-class soldier in the automobile team of the commander Xue Youpan. Once, because of his storytelling, he was highly appreciated by the commander-in-chief and was promoted to the commander of the advancing battalion. After fighting a few bad battles and appeasing a few bandits, he was promoted from regiment commander and brigade commander to division commander. He was powerful and wealthy. He rode in cars, lived in a western-style mansion, smoked big cigarettes, had sex with women, drank and drank, had fun and did whatever he wanted. Unexpectedly, there was a mutiny, betrayal and separation, and he became a mere commander. So with 800,000 silver dollars in savings, he returned to Beijing to find his concubine, the famous actor Wu Yueqing, and agreed to get married on an auspicious day. Unexpectedly, during the preparations for the wedding, he suddenly saw his immediate boss, Brigadier Bao, living on the street. Sun Dujun cut him to death with a sharp knife. He also learned that Wu Yueqing had an affair with someone else and did not love him. She felt disheartened. On the wedding day, she actually cut off her green hair and walked out with a flick of her sleeves...

"Danfeng Street" is a long masterpiece written by Zhang Henshui during the Anti-Japanese War. It was originally called "Biographies of Negative Vendors". From the title of the book, it can be seen that the author wanted to write biographies for the lower class hawkers. The novel tells the story of a group of self-reliant vegetable vendors and bartenders on Danfeng Street headed by Tong Laowu. They are not afraid of power and are willing to go bankrupt and run around just to rescue the poor girl Chen Xiujie who was sold by her uncle to Deputy Chief Zhao as his concubine. Underneath the poor and rough appearance of the protagonists, there is a chivalrous spirit of magnanimity, sincerity, and promise. Although the novel is not about martial arts, it uses folk ideas of "chivalry" throughout. From the title to the story content and the spoken dialect in the book, "Danfeng Street" is full of pure Nanjing flavor. In the long corridor of Chinese new literature, there is no novel that can vividly depict the urban culture and customs of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, like Zhang Henshui's "Danfeng Street". Although "Danfeng Street" is not Zhang Henshui's particularly famous masterpiece, it shows his skill in the description of genre paintings, style paintings and landscape paintings. It is the "Along the River During Qingming Festival" in Nanjing during the Republic of China.

Brothels, literary prostitutes, government politicians, wealthy dignitaries, and the three religions and nine streams all merged into a chaotic society, and a huge shady curtain opened up - Li Fengji, a down-and-out scholar, was introduced to Beijing to seek a job. However, it is so difficult to find a job. I encounter obstacles everywhere and live without a stable life. In the turbulent life, he gradually discovered the secret to becoming an official and making a fortune, so he used despicable tricks to join the family of Tang Yan, a high-ranking official, and obtained an official position. Tang Yanlao suddenly suffered a political defeat, and the mob around him also fell into disarray.

In "The New Legend of Ghost Slayer", Sun Wukong caused a revolution and the heaven became a republic. Despite the change of dynasties, Zhong Kui still performed his duty of exorcising ghosts. Because the previous plaque of the temple was replaced, Zhong Kui and his subordinates began to investigate the lower world, and thus launched a different kind of ghost exorcism operation. Opium ghosts, metaphysical ghosts, hollow ghosts, cruel ghosts, faceless ghosts, etc. All appear on the stage, each showing their true colors and magical powers. After a battle with all the ghosts, the number of ghosts in the world has decreased, but Zhong Kui still has a long way to go in exorcising ghosts. "A Different World" tells the story of Song Yangquan, a rich man who wanted to be an official, but he didn't know that there was a different world in officialdom and was deceived twice. Song Yangquan, a wealthy local man, came to the city to seek an official position. Through the introduction of the clan brothers in the provincial capital, I met the fake Director Zhao, Section Chief Hao, Director Zhang and others, and I was intoxicated in the social officialdom and gentle countryside arranged by these people. Little did I know that everything was a scam.

Popular actress Bai Guiying was tired of her life as a performer and decided to leave the stage. Depressed, Guiying met Wang Yuhe, a young civil servant, and married him despite the pressure of her mother. Yu He unfortunately lost his job and could not find a way out. He took Guiying back to his hometown in the countryside. Although the couple was cautious, they were still picked on by the Wang brothers and sister-in-law. The couple had to return to Peiping with their newborn daughter and temporarily stay at the Bai family. Forced by her livelihood, Guiying decided to return to the stage, and she had to socialize with the male guests. Yuhe ran away from home after a misunderstanding...

The work "Idol" bitterly satirizes the hypocrisy and depravity of a small number of intellectuals in the rear areas during the Anti-Japanese War. Ding Guyun was a great painter who was obsessed with women and embezzled huge sums of money from the Anti-Japanese War. He had to fake his death in a fire to escape the blame. The ending of the story is that he witnessed his son, who has become an anti-Japanese hero, hold an exhibition and purchase of Ding Guyun's "posthumous works" in memory of the artist's father. What made him most unbearable was that the female liar who took away his embezzled money turned out to be a generous patriot. He could only face his idol, listen to his son's praise, secretly curse his hypocrisy and run away. "The Future" is based on the main plot of Shao Baozhu, a rich girl who was dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by her family and eventually ran away from home. It shows the desire of women in the new era to get rid of the prison of the family and yearn for a new life. Shao Baozhu did not hesitate to make a fuss with his family and ran away from home, hoping to stay with his lover Zhu Changqing. College student Zhu Changqing finally chose to leave his lover Shao Baozhu to join the revolution in the face of his friend Mao Zhengyi's revolutionary righteousness. Mao Zhengyi accidentally met Shao Baozhu while he was busy with the revolution and developed an admiration for him. He wanted to deepen their understanding of each other through the relationship between his sister Mao Zhengfang and Shao Baozhu's classmates. Although Shao Baozhu left his family and his future is unknown, but through his relationship network with Zhu Changqing, Mao Zhengyi, and Mao Zhengfang, we can know that his future is a bright one.

This book describes Huang Xishi, a young student from Anhui Province who went to Peking to attend university. He met Bai Xingsu, a young woman, on the train and fell in love at first sight. After arriving in Peiping, Huang met socialite Mi Jinhua. Huang actually abandoned his girlfriend and lived with Mi, squandering half of his father's life savings... Huang's father went to Peking to demand money, but Huang did not recognize his father in front of Mi. Later, Mi found out and left Huang. Huang lived on the streets, suffered from poverty and illness, and felt ashamed and resentful, so he decided to become a hiker.

This book describes the story of the singing girl Tang Dasao who had two daughters by the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, one was Erchun and the other was Xiaochun, both of whom were beautiful and lovely. Xiaochun has an outstanding singing voice and becomes a singer. She is very popular. Yang Yuquan, a Shanghai money merchant, took a liking to Xiaochun and molested her many times. After being rejected, he harbored a grudge. He kidnapped and raped Erchun in a poisonous plan, and then gave Erchun to his bodyguard Wei Laoba. Erchun waited for an opportunity to take revenge and finally killed Wei Laoba and injured Yang Yuquan. Unfortunately, he was also shot to death. Yang Yuquan intensified his efforts and exerted all his lustful force on Mrs. Tang and Xiaochun, forcing the mother and daughter to suffer unspeakably.

This book tells the story of the young girl Li Xiuer. Li Xiuer comes from a poor family, and her father Li Sansheng used to make a living by performing "ghost fighting" on the streets, but unexpectedly fell ill. Introduced by several neighbor girls, Li Xiuer went to an art school to work as a nude female model without telling her father. She also worked as a model in the Art Palace organized by the school teacher, and her life improved. But when Li Sansheng learned about Li Xiuer's work, he was very angry and abandoned his home. He picked up his old business of "ghost fighting", but died of exhaustion on the street. Li Xiuer met Duan Tiande, a student at school. Duan Tiande fell in love with her at first, but was abandoned by him and eventually went crazy.

"Reporter's Biography" was originally published in the supplement "People's Square" of Shanghai's "News Daily", with a total of thirty chapters. The whole book looks at society from the perspective of a newspaper reporter, from the big current situation to the small social phenomena and characters. It describes the situation in detail and criticizes the current ills. It is a novel that combines literature and readability.

This book describes a young and promising painter in Yushui Village during the Republic of China, who lived a life devoted to landscapes. By chance, he met the singer Taozhi, and the two fell in love, but later broke up due to misunderstanding. Taozhi angrily agreed to a certain boss's proposal and married him. At their wedding banquet, the boss's wife made a big fuss, but thanks to Mizumura's confession, the situation was resolved. Unable to forget his feelings, Taozhi followed the seriously ill Shuicun to the boat. Just as the ferry caught fire, Taozhi exchanged clothes with Shuicun, causing Shuicun to be taken away by the boat that rescued the women and children, but he was burned to death in the fire. After being rescued, Shuicun was immersed in pain and couldn't extricate himself. I accidentally saw a play called "The River is Red", which told the story of a woman and her lover who cross-dressed to save others. I couldn't help myself, so I watched it night after night, remembering my relationship with Taozhi, and finally died of depression due to excessive pain.

"The Heroes of the Central Plains" is a martial arts novel written by Zhang Henshui. This book has a total of twenty-four chapters. The novel uses the story of Wang Tianzong, a righteous man from Henan, who resolutely participated in the Revolution of 1911 with the encouragement of his wife who understood righteousness. It depicts a group of "righteous men" who love the country and the people. It strongly embodies national patriotism and elevates the vendetta and killing in martial arts novels to the theme of patriotic revolution.

This book is set in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War and describes the difficult life in the education sector during the Anti-Japanese War. The professors in the cultural village had different choices and fates in the midst of hardships: Tang Zian continued to live a poor life as a teacher, Tan Boping passed away quietly amidst the struggle of illness and loneliness, Su Banyun Qingyun became an official, Professor Liang and Hong Andong gave up their writing and went into business, and Hua Aoshuang married entrepreneur Xia Shanqing after a pursuit of love.

The novel "The Great River Goes East" describes a young soldier whose wife left him and his family was destroyed due to the war. The book also vividly describes the bloody atrocities of the battle to defend China Gate and the massacre of civilians in Nanjing by the Japanese army; it provides a vivid record of the bloodthirsty crimes of the invaders. "River East" may be the earliest literary and artistic work to reflect the Nanjing Massacre. "The Chronicles of Zhao Yuling" mainly tells the story of Zhao Yuling, Fengba's grandmother. On an early autumn night, journalist Liu Boxun and poet Chen Zihe were walking outside the Forbidden City Park and discovered Zhao Yuling, the eighth grandma of General Feng's family, in ragged clothes and disheveled hair. In the fifth year of the Republic of China, General Feng arrived in Tianjin with his family. Among them was the son of his wife, known as Feng Baye. Feng Baye's wife is mediocre in appearance. Baye met and fell in love with the famous Kun Ling Zhao Yuling under the introduction of his adjutant. From then on, Zhao Yuling began a life of reveling in life and life, with ups and downs as a young mistress.

The protagonist of "Pinghu Opens to Traffic", the banker Hu Xing, takes a direct train from Peking back to Shanghai with a huge sum of more than 100,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, I met a young and beautiful woman in the dining car who had not bought a sleeper ticket. During the conversation, he learned that her name was Liu Xuchun, and that she was a friend of his distant relative. Beard was intrigued and thought of her, and he kindly invited her to rest in his box, and the two spent a romantic night. The next night, the two rekindled their old relationship. However, when Hu Xing woke up and approached Shanghai Station, he found that the huge sum of money in the suitcase was missing, and the woman named Liu Xuchun had already gotten off at Suzhou Station. A few years later, when the impoverished Huxing passed through Suzhou by train again, he saw a woman who looked very much like Liu Xuchun rushing past with a leather bag. He was moved by the scene and chased after her... The story of "Such a Country" took place on a hot summer day during the Republic of China. Chen Junren, a young talent from Peking, came to Nanjing to visit his fiancée Zhu Xuefu. Zhu Junren couldn't stand the hot weather in Nanjing, so he invited Zhu Xuefu to go to Mount Lushan to escape the summer heat. On the way, she met barrister Fang Mengxu. Because Chen Tan fell in love with the outstanding appearance and calm temperament of Mr. Fang's niece Fang Jingyi, she invited them to go to Lushan together. However, Zhu Xuefu vaguely noticed Chen Junren's admiration for Fang Jingyi. On Lushan Mountain, Zhu Xuefu was jealous and often quarreled fiercely with Chen Junren. Chen Junren couldn't stand Zhu Xuefu, so he hurried down the mountain and left without saying goodbye. However, the love affair between the three people, which was constantly being resolved and messed up, continued.

Written by Zhang Henshui, it is the sequel to Jin Shengtan's cut-down version of "Water Margin" (seventy chapters). It tells the story of the Liangshan heroes who gathered together to help the imperial court fight against the Jin Kingdom.

"Yinhan Double Star" mainly tells the story of the innocent and beautiful "Fairy Wushou" Li Yueying, who fell in love with Yang Yiyun under the pursuit of "prodigal son" Yang Yiyun. However, Yang Yiyun later found a new love. After this relationship, Yueying left the film industry and lived a peaceful life with her father again. "Secret Valley" tells the adventure story of the protagonist Kang Baichuan, biologist Dr. Xu Kanran, geologist Dr. Ouyang Pu and poet Xu Binru in the mysterious valley under Tianzhu Mountain. The four people had a clear division of labor, actively planned, went through hardships, and discovered the Ming Dynasty survivors living in the Secret Valley. The local people live a self-sufficient life, men and women are equal, they are simple and hard-working, and they receive warm hospitality. At the same time, they were also involved in local regional struggles, helping to resolve disputes and capture the enemy emperor Pu Zuwang and his queen. The four of them took Emperor Pu Zuwang and the Queen out of the valley and returned to Nanjing. Along the way, they attracted attention from all walks of life and became popular. However, soon Pu Zuwang and the Queen were no longer cared about and lived on the streets. Pu Zuwang was hit by a car and died. At the Queen's strong request, the four people discussed that Kang Baichuan would eventually send him back to the Secret Valley to live a safe and self-sufficient life.

"Memories of Writing Career" is the autobiography of Zhang Henshui, a modern cultural celebrity. The main contents include: childhood memories, when I was a child, looking at the lanterns to remember my childhood, nostalgia for old years, family treasures, drummers, my three ancient gentlemen, my family does not exchange Spring Festival couplets, my second brother cries during the Qingming Festival, the New Year in my hometown, Peach Blossom Fan, miscellaneous feelings of my life, nostalgia for the old years, Dan Weng and I, "Jing Bao" and me, Qingliang Ancient Road, etc.

This book describes the emotional entanglement between the coachman Ding Erhe and the singing queen Yuerong. The plot is twists and turns and exciting. It explores human nature deeply and thoroughly. The psychological portrayal of the hero and heroine is particularly delicate. It should be particularly pointed out that "Deep Night" was originally the title of a piece of "Yu Ji Dance" in the opera "Farewell My Concubine". Zhang Henshui ingeniously integrated this erhu music throughout the novel, becoming a link between the joys and sorrows of the hero and heroine and a clue to the development of the plot. Not only do most of the scenes in the novel take place in the deep night, but the tone of the novel is dark, cold and desolate. The "deep night" symbolizes the tragic fate of Ding Erhe and Wang Yuerong, revealing the cold darkness of society. In terms of the novel's ingenious conception, complete structure and rich characterization, this book is superior to "The Cause of Laughter".

The story of "Tianming Village" takes place in the winter of the second year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty. The Taiping Rebellion invaded a village in Qianshan County, Anhui Province without any obstruction along the way. The local officials were busy collecting money, running away, and smoking cigarettes. However, the squire headed by Li Fengchi stood up to defend his hometown and moved all the old and young women into Tianming Village. The men guarded the dangerous place, and were eventually forced to surrender under the siege of the "Long-haired Army". The article reveals the reality that the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom's army is hierarchical and murderous. It also reflects the corrupt and mediocre officialdom of the Qing Dynasty. Caught between the government and the war, civilians can only take up arms to defend their own interests.

The book "Night of Street Fighting" tells the story of the bloody battle between the people of Tianjin and Qianshan and the invaders during the Japanese invasion of China. It writes about an ordinary teacher who grew into a guerrilla captain during a brave struggle against the Japanese army and led the people to severely attack the invading enemies. The protagonist of the novel is the ideal figure in the author's mind for the Anti-Japanese War, and expresses the author's strong desire to unite in the Anti-Japanese War. "The Road to Shu is Difficult" tells the story of people from Jiangdong who fled to Shu one after another during the Anti-Japanese War. On the way, young employee Feng Zian met Miss Bai Yuzhen. Feng Diabai fell in love at first sight and was attentive in every possible way. The ship arrived in Chongqing, and when Feng Zian was preparing to marry Miss Bai, Bai Yuzhen had already "lost her tail"... A dream of love finally came to nothing. "Jade Crossing Branches" tells the adventure story of the protagonist Kang Baichuan, biologist Dr. Xu Kanran, geologist Dr. Ouyang Pu and poet Xu Binru in the mysterious valley under Tianzhu Mountain. The four people had a clear division of labor, actively planned, went through hardships, and discovered the Ming Dynasty survivors living in the Secret Valley. The local people live a self-sufficient life, men and women are equal, they are simple and hard-working, and they receive warm hospitality. At the same time, they were also involved in local regional struggles, helping to resolve disputes and capture the enemy emperor Pu Zuwang and his queen. The four of them took Emperor Pu Zuwang and the Queen out of the valley and returned to Nanjing. Along the way, they attracted attention from all walks of life and became popular. However, soon Pu Zuwang and the Queen were no longer cared about and lived on the streets. Pu Zuwang was hit by a car and died. At the Queen's strong request, the four people discussed that Kang Baichuan would eventually send him back to the Secret Valley to live a safe and self-sufficient life.

"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is adapted from one of the four major love stories in ancient China: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. It was created by Mr. Zhang Henshui after the founding of the People's Republic of China. "Autumn River" tells the story of Pan Bizheng, a scholar who lives in the Privet Temple where his aunt lives. He meets Taoist nun Chen Miaochang and falls deeply in love with her. One night, I heard the quiet melody of the piano and followed the sound, which was played by Miao Chang. Pan then borrowed the music to pick it up. Although Miaochang also has intentions, he pretends to be angry and refuses because of the precepts. But the feelings have connected, and we are in love with each other from now on...

"The Legend of White Snake" describes the tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivated into human form and a human being. The story includes plots such as borrowing an umbrella from a tented boat, the white lady stealing Ganoderma lucidum, flooding the Jinshan Mountain, broken bridges, Leifeng Pagoda, Xu Xian's son Shilin worshiping the Pagoda, etc. It expresses the people's praise and yearning for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable restraint of feudal forces. "Meng Jiangnu" is a character in the Chinese folk tale "Meng Jiangnu Cries the Great Wall". Her story is one of the four major Chinese folk love stories. It has been widely circulated among the people through oral inheritance for thousands of years. The earliest legend can be traced back to "Zuo Zhuan".

This book describes the story of four male students who accompanied a female student, Yang Yanqiu, back to the northwest to find relatives. It records the customs, customs and emotional entanglements between the characters during the journey. The portrayal of the character's psychology is excellent. Female college student Yang Yanqiu was originally a refugee from Gansu, but she was adopted after her family moved to Nanjing when she was a child, and she became a young lady from a wealthy family. But the good times did not last long. After her adoptive parents passed away, she could not tolerate her brothers and sister-in-law and decided to return to her hometown to find relatives and make some contributions to the northwest. However, due to the circumstances at the time, she could only invite four male classmates to escort her back all the way. In the eyes of these four male classmates, this also became a test of love, and they didn't know who would make it to the end. The work uses this clue to actually introduce the scenery and backward conditions along the northwest, and to show the suffering and tenacity of the people in the northwest.

The story takes place in Chongqing, the capital of the Nationalist Government in 1945. Here gathered a group of people who were feasting, feasting, and living in intoxication. Everything revolves around money. Corruption of officials, speculation by businessmen and bankers, and women being swindlers have become a common trend. The novel uses the clues of Wei Duanben, a young civil servant, and his beautiful but vain wife Tian Peizhi as they live together and break up. It takes the opportunity of many characters to rush to buy gold savings certificates to make the country's hard-earned wealth, and unfolds a complicated story. When the Anti-Japanese War was won, everything for the speculators was in vain. The work directs criticism towards the ugly, humble world in the Kuomintang-controlled areas on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It reveals the loss and struggle in the face of human nature and money in a special era.