The North Wind Is Blowing

Introduction to the novel "The North Wind Blows" is a realistic period novel set in the northern countryside in the early days of reform and opening up. The story begins in the cold winter of 1978. It tells the story of Li Xiangdong, an educated youth, who led the villagers of Zhuangjiatun to break stereotypes, innovate and seek change, and to get out of poverty by building greenhouses to grow off-season vegetables. The work uses delicate brushstrokes to depict portraits of ordinary people represented by Li Xiangdong, production captain Wang Qingshan, rural girl Xinghua, etc. In the wave of change of the times. Faced with many difficulties such as lack of supplies and conservative ideas, they relied on their own efforts and united to help each other. Not only did they achieve food and clothing, but they also promoted the common development of surrounding villages, demonstrating their strong vitality. With vivid and vivid details, the novel reproduces the life picture of northern rural areas in the late 1970s - the enthusiastic collective labor and the lively scenes in front of the supply and marketing cooperative, intertwined with the warmth and contradictions of family and friends. While retaining strong regional characteristics, it also sang a song of ordinary workers working hard to create a better life under the guidance of policies.