Introduction to the book "Pohu Bei Ming"
Zhan Liangshuo, who lives in Zhanjia Village on the east bank of Poyang Lake, often picked up clam shells on the tidal flats during his childhood. The vast lake planted the seeds of nostalgia in his heart. With outstanding talent, he was admitted to the Physics Department of Jiujiang Normal College. As a top student in science, he was obsessed with the literature and history of the Lake District and founded a literary club in school. After graduation, he took up a job as a teacher, but the stable three-foot podium could not restrain his ambition. He withstood the criticism from his mother and neighbors and resigned to pursue a career in the sea.
Zhan Liangshuo first made his first fortune in the advertising business in Jiujiang, then went south to the Pearl River Delta and took root in Hong Kong. Relying on the freshwater mussel resources in his hometown, he created an original cross-border barter trade model and gradually worked his way up to become the industry-renowned "King of Pohu Mussels." At the peak of his career, many business friends persuaded him to settle overseas, but he resolutely returned to his hometown with huge sums of money, devoted himself to building a new pearl industry city, and worked with local scholars to establish a cultural and historical research institute to save the intangible cultural heritage of Poyang Lake.
The grand blueprint was implemented in the homeland, but what followed were land acquisition disputes, financial pressure, and suspicion from all parties. In the repeated pull between commercial profits and rural ideals, Zhan Liangshuo experienced countless criticisms and ups and downs, and slowly understood the logic of rural survival. A lake shell, traveling half a lifetime and returning half a lifetime, tells the story of a generation of idealistic entrepreneurs wandering in search of ideas and returning to their homeland.
