The Twelve Posts of the Floating World

Introduction to the work "Twelve Posts on the Floating World" takes the post-war Jiangnan town as the background, and uses the twelve life keywords "wine, sex, wealth, anger, love, hate, affection, enmity, life, separation, death, and farewell" to outline twelve frames of slices of the troubled world. Brewer Shen Sanye seals the years with wine, actor Su Hongyu hides his true feelings with drama, accountant Zhao Shouren measures people's hearts with accounts, rice shop apprentice Wang Zhenbang makes a living with rice, and down-and-out scholar Lin Huaijin asks the common people with books... These unknown little people in history struggle to survive in the torrent of war and change. Their choices are as small as rice, but they reflect the silent tremor when the times roll over individuals. The novel abandons grand narratives and hides the heaviest joys and sorrows in small details such as the dents in the tin wine pot, the new rice on the hem of the cheongsam, and the old letters in the ledger. Wine is fragile time, carrying lyricism and regret; rice is tough life, supporting life and perseverance. In the intertwining of ruins and rebirth, forgetting and remembering, the love and pain, fear and courage, escape and perseverance of those little people jointly weave a long scroll full of fireworks and compassion, dedicated to all the nameless people who have silently lived, loved and suffered in the torrent of the times.