Yellow Crane Tower

This is an urban epic spanning 42 years in Jiangcheng City, a modern version of Wuhan's Riverside Scene during the Qingming Festival. The book uses the current of the times from 1984 to 2026 as the background, and uses the Yellow Crane Tower and the Yangtze River as the eternal coordinates. It abandons a single protagonist, bloody entanglements and overhead narratives, and uses pure group portrait realism to record the iterative rebirth of a city and the ups and downs of ordinary people's lives from generation to generation. From the poverty-stricken fireworks of the 1980s with the warmth of tickets and acquaintances and neighbors, to the rise of the market economy in the 1990s, the barbaric growth of laid-off workers and migrant workers; from the pain of the era of demolition of old cities and the disappearance of streets and lanes in the new century, to the stable daily life of new cities in the new era, with fireworks being replaced by new ones. Old houses, streets, craftsmen, workers, refugees, and young people taking root in foreign lands take turns to appear. In the earth-shaking changes of the city, they experience parting and reunion, persistence and breakthrough, loss and acceptance. The towers have been replaced many times, the rivers flow day and night, and the world changes year after year. There are no exciting legends in the book. It only describes the background of the times and the warmth and warmth of ordinary people. With gentle and thick brushwork, it freezes the memory of a city, the years of a generation, and the never-ending fireworks of Jiangcheng.