Introduction to "Dash Bridge"
This novel draws on the narrative style of "The Ancient Ship" and uses the ancient granite bridge that remains from the Ming Dynasty in Dasha Town, Duchang, Jiangxi Province as the core image. The story spans more than half a century and focuses on the grievances and grievances of the two prominent families of Zhu and Huang that last for several generations. The ancestors of the Zhu family donated money to build the Dasha Bridge. They once monopolized the trade at the lakeside wharf, but the family business declined after several changes of times. The three brothers and sisters of the Zhu family are leading completely different lives. The elder brother Zhu Shouyu is calm and restrained, sitting alone on a stone bridge all day long, reading ancient books, and struggling to explore the root causes of the repeated disputes in the lake area; the younger brother Zhu Jianchuan has a radical personality and travels around the world with obsession, always trying to regain the wharf and lake beach industry; the younger sister Zhu Wanxiang is trapped in the shackles of local patriarchal traditions, and spends her life wandering between escaping from her hometown and being attached to her hometown. The representative of the Huang family, Huang Boxun, is well versed in the rules of local customs and secretly controls local affairs. The younger generation Huang Mugen takes advantage of the opportunities of reform and opening up to seize lake beach resources and quickly make a fortune. From the late Republic of China to collective communes and then to the implementation of the market economy, the ownership of polders and the contracting of water areas have set off games again and again. In 1998, the Poyang Lake flood overflowed the bridge. The flood broke the inherent interest pattern. After the disaster, immigrants built towns and reshaped the lakeside settlements. The Dasha Bridge, which stands silently, reads the ebb and flow of the tide, witnessing that the people in the lake area are wrapped up in grievances and pushed forward by the times. They are constantly introspecting in the midst of suffering and are struggling to find a way out for the people living by the lake.
