Conjoined Tombs

This is a coal mining documentary based on a real historical background. It is about 20,000 words in total. The author tells the story of the joys and sorrows of Huainan coal miner Xie Changkun's family from the 1950s to the 1960s from the perspective of an eyewitness. The novel uses "Siamese Tombs" as a clue, and through a series of events such as Xie Changkun's death due to illness, the widow Huang Yuemo and her children collecting coal to make a living, and the youngest son Xie Xiaolu's death in a mine to share the family's worries, it presents the survival struggle of an ordinary miner's family in the torrent of the times. The work uses delicate descriptions of local customs and vivid spoken dialogues to create a strong sense of the times. It is sincere and tear-jerking. It is not only a family mourning history for common people, but also an elegy for the tenacity of the bottom workers.