On May 5, 1993, an exceptionally fierce sandstorm struck Shacheng County in Northwest China. The people there realized their homes were about to be swallowed by the desert and turn into a second Lop Nur.
Wang Tianjian refused to let his two sons, Dongzi and Goudan, keep suffering on the edge of the desert, so he took them to the city to attend school.
When Dongzi grew up, he founded a business and eventually put down roots in Sidun Town, at the very front line of the battle against the sand. There, he pioneered an “ecological industrialization through desert control” model and led his fellow villagers to prosperity. Goudan pursued his literary dreams, became a well-known online novelist, and created an “internet-based public welfare desert control” model, encouraging volunteers from across the country to plant their own saxaul trees in the desert. Thanks to the favorable policies of reform and opening up and their own hard work, the brothers changed their fate and stood shoulder to shoulder to protect their home.
This work is based on the true story of Ma Junhe, a National Model Worker in Afforestation. Using the lives of the Wang brothers as its warp and the tide of reform and opening up as its weft, it explores desert control and prosperity, the guardianship of home, conflict between fathers and sons, and the bond between brothers. It vividly interprets the development philosophy that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” composing an era's ode to the transformation of desert into oasis. This is not only an epic of desert control spanning two generations, but also a vivid reflection of rural revitalization in the new era, showcasing the Chinese people's indomitable spirit of struggle and their enduring faith in protecting their home.
The work won the 11th Dunhuang Literary and Art Award of Gansu Province and the Best IP Value Award at the third Realistic Fiction Writing Contest hosted by Shanghai Qimao Chinese Network. It was selected for the second Yangtze River Online Literature List of Most Promising IPs in Jiangsu Province, featured in the China Online Literature Yearbook (2023), and its ebook was added to the collection of the Shanghai Pudong Library.
After listening to the Tengger Desert, I am now listening to the green shuttle on the desert
This book may seem plain, but it is full of life and very attractive. Nice
It's especially true. Parents of the older generation have this mentality of being hard-working and hard-working. I, who was born in the 1970s, was so controlled by my father that I couldn't go anywhere and had to work honestly in a state-owned enterprise until it collapsed. This is a true portrayal of a generation.
Yes, I, who was born in the 60s, loved reading it. I read both books in one go, so I give it a thumbs up.
It took me a long time to watch the heartbreaking but beautiful and happy unforgettable memory of the Tengger Desert intermittently. Many thanks to the author. I saw from the comments that many readers resonated and moved with great vigor and heart-to-heart, which inspired me to have an idea and initiative, that is, we should not forget our suffering and glory, and pick up a pen to write down our unforgettable memories. Chinese culture has a long history, dating back five thousand years, and is unique in the world!
It can be said that I spent all my time reading these two masterpieces by Hakuba in one sitting. Goudan's father is hard-working and responsible. He only cares about his children and his lover. He borrowed money to buy household registration for his two brothers. He was afraid that his wife would suffer hardship and would be burdened. He did not hesitate to ride a bicycle hundreds of miles back and forth every week. In order for the whole family to live a good life, he did the work of three people; Goudan's mother, a hard-working, simple and glorious rural woman, faced the ridicule of the whole village. She cultivated eight acres of melons by herself. Although her husband felt sorry for her and came back to help one day a week, the woman with two children despised such difficulties from the bottom of her heart. She was hardworking and brave, and her love for her two children was so delicate. Dongzi's growth trajectory truly reflected the growth trajectory of many rural children of that era. His father was not at home, so he took the initiative to be the backbone of the family, helping his mother and caring for his younger brothers. His calmness in his teens confirmed the wise saying "Children of the poor will be the masters of their families early". The following "degeneration" and "rebellion" reflect a child's resistance to the troubles caused to him by the "poverty" of his native family. The love between Gou Dan and Liu Qing has great sympathy for most people who have experienced campus love, because most campus love ends in vain. Those emotions that seem "childish and ridiculous" now are really "bigger than heaven" in the hearts of young boys and girls. Everyone hopes that Gou Dan and Liu Qing can be together in the end, probably more to make up for the shortcomings in their hearts. Thank you Baima for writing such an excellent work.
After reading "Tenggri", I will continue to read the author's other books, and come to follow "The Green Thread on the Desert"! It's a rare good book. It's eloquently told. As the protagonist's emotions rise and fall in the plot, family life was really like this in that era. It's great! We don't need those time travels. Green Tea, Your Majesty, your stepmother and stepsisters are just making things up.
I am so confused about the writing. Goudan and Liu Qing have no CP, which makes me unhappy and angry. I want to sue the author for causing mental harm to me.
The writing is awesome, I stayed up late to read it, it brought back a lot of memories
Is there a third part? It's really good, except for the part about Goudan falling in love that I don't like.