The Loess Is Half a Lifetime, and the Times Are a Journey

The times are vast and the waves are rolling. In 1978, the spring breeze began to blow, and the mountains and rivers quietly turned around. A reform and opening up that swept across the land broke the silence of the old years and spread into millions of ordinary villages. There are no earth-shattering heroic legends, only countless ordinary people who grew up in the soil, pushed forward by the times, struggling, persevering, struggling and growing. Liu San is an ordinary farmer who was born in the land and grew up in the fields. Face the loess all your life, covered in fireworks and dust. He does not understand the national policy and grand plans, nor does he understand the changes of the times. He only knows how to work at sunrise and rest at sunset. He only wants to have a full stomach, raise his family well, and live a good life. From holding on to one-third of an acre of land to make a living, to letting go of the land to support the family; from not daring to think too much about the future, to going out to make a living and trying to work hard; from sticking to the way of life of our ancestors, to slowly understanding the changes in the world. The decades of reform and opening up are just a page in the history books of Hong Hong, but for a little man like Liu San, they are the ups and downs of a lifetime. The great era never favors ordinary people, but ordinary people strive to survive in the waves. What is written in this book is not about legendary achievements, but about a farmer who lives an ordinary and tenacious life in the great changes of the times. He endures the hardships of the years, seizes the glimmer of the times, and goes through the ups and downs of half a life step by step. The soil hides the years, and ordinary people can see the mountains and rivers.