Fireworks and Sighs in the World

—A survival epic that records the ups and downs of an ordinary Chinese peasant family over the past thirty years. "This book is not good to read. Just think of it as a diary I wrote for myself." An ordinary boy born in the countryside was supposed to have a peaceful childhood and a warm family. However, the gears of fate suddenly turned when he became an adult. From herding cattle, catching fish, and doing homework with candles in his childhood, to working, getting married, and having children in his youth; from his wife's recurring mental illness, to his repeated setbacks in an unfair workplace; from his family's expectations and loss, to the multiple responsibilities of being a father, son, and husband that weighed him down... He once believed that hard work could change his destiny, but he fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire of reality. This is not a carefully woven literary work, without gorgeous rhetoric and twists and turns of plot. This is just a "life diary" written by an ordinary person for himself in the simplest writing style. With extremely candid and almost clumsy sincerity, the author recorded what he saw, heard, and felt in the thirty-eight years from his birth in 1987 to 2025. The vivid and cruel details piece together the life of an ordinary person struggling, persevering, and even occasionally smiling in the face of suffering. He wrote this book not to gain sympathy or to become a writer, but to leave evidence of his existence. To all those who walk in the mud but never give up the glimmer of light