Golden Wrinkles

"The Story of Golden Wrinkles" is a rural revitalization novel based on lion's head tangerine, a rare specialty of Xunyang, Shaanxi Province. Chen Mo, a graduate of a prestigious school, bid farewell to his workplace in Beijing and returned to the Qinba Mountains to inherit his father's business. Faced with this golden fruit that "only 500 Chinese can eat one every year" and has a cultivation history of 1,700 years, he is determined to break the dilemma of "good things cannot be sold at good prices." The novel uses the unique character of the Lion's Head Mandarin, which is "flat and golden, with wrinkled skin, slightly bitter in the mouth and sweet aftertaste" as a metaphor, to tell how Chen Mo integrated the wisdom of old farmers with business thinking, established an industry association, established a traceability system, held cultural festivals, and prepared to build a museum, so that the national geographical indication product "Xunyang Lion's Head Mandarin" moved from the folds of the mountains to the vast world. Interspersed with the deep affection between father and son from estrangement to reconciliation, as well as the love story of walking side by side with reporter Lin Yue. The work depicts a pastoral scroll of the Qinba landscape, showing how a group of watchmen turned scarce ancient fruits into cultural symbols and industrial business cards. "The medal of wind and frost, the sweetness of time" - first bitter and then sweet, it is not only the taste of lion head orange, but also the true meaning of life and land.