Peonies Blooming

This is a campus literary novel that records the youthful growth of students from a key high school in Northeast China. From the perspective of high school student Huai Song, it connects the campus life and spiritual trajectory from the golden autumn of 2019 to New Year's Eve of 2021. Huaisong, who had just entered high school, was anxious due to academic pressure and confused due to prejudices in interpersonal relationships. However, he gradually learned to accept and take responsibility through the banter with his classmates, the tacit cooperation with his classmates, and the passionate rehearsals with his classmates in the textbook drama. From the vitality of the resumption of school in the Beginning of Summer, the blooming of the textbook drama "Earn Grain", to the enthusiasm of ice and snow aerobics in the Winter Solstice, and the accumulation of creative memories in the Great Cold, the circulation of the twenty-four solar terms has witnessed the counterattack and transformation of the teenagers, and has also witnessed the teachers' use of humor and tolerance to protect the light of the classroom. The novel restores the daily life of campus during that special period in a delicate way - the noise of online class microphones, the cool breeze of air conditioning in the study room, the laughter of snowball fights, the quiet waiting during nucleic acid testing, and explores the resilience of youth with "growth" as the core. Just like peonies blooming, after dormant in the cold winter, they will eventually bloom with their own glory in time. This is not only the history of Huaisong's youth, but also the collective memory of a generation that persists in love and illuminates each other in difficult circumstances.