Qinba's Dream

"Qinba Dream" is based on the great migration from southern Shaanxi in the early Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of Chen Yongnian, an immigrant from Huguang, who led more than 50 villagers to respond to the imperial court's reclamation order and march westward along the Han River to the Qinba Mountains. War and natural disasters in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties left southern Shaanxi almost empty. Chen Yongnian and his party experienced banditry, plague, drought and locust disasters, and finally settled in the Hanzhong River Bend. Faced with the barren land, ferocious tigers and wolves, and the hostility of the local villagers, they resolved the conflicts between natives and guests with sincerity and achieved win-win cooperation. They reclaimed rice fields at the foot of the Qinling Mountains, planted tea and oranges, and turned the river bend into a "Xinhu Village" with diligence and wisdom. The novel takes ten years as the axis and integrates real historical policies - from Shunzhi's "Reclamation Order" to Kangxi's tenth year of the New Science and Technology Policy - into the fate of the characters. Chen Yongnian's tenacity, Zhou's warmth, Chen Dachuan's enterprising spirit, Chen Xiaohe and Zhao Xiaolong's cross-regional love, and the prefect Wang Deming's love for the people, together composed a hymn to the pioneers. This is not only a local epic about migration and taking root, but also a moving picture showing the Chinese nation's endless survival in hardships and helping each other in integration. Among the green mountains and green waters of the Qinba Mountains, the seeds of hope will eventually grow into towering trees.