Introduction to "Pohu Longtan, Huangxiang Ancient Village"
In the vast Poyang, the moon is reflected in the dragon pond. Huangxiang Village, located on the bank of Longtan Lake in Duchang, Jiangxi Province, is an ancient lakeside village that has accumulated three hundred years of wind and rain. For generations, villagers have lived near the water, made a living by fishing and farming, and thrived on the water and soil of Po Lake. They have also endured the shackles of floods and dangerous dikes year after year, and have survived generations of bitter cold years in their barren and blocked water town.
In the old days, the villages had dense fireworks, well-organized clans, ancestral halls, busy ferries, dragon boats on grass islands, and fishermen singing in the evening, which hide the unique simple folk customs and local warmth of the water towns in northern Jiangxi. The tide of the times swept across, and the wave of migrant workers broke the peace of the ancient village. All young and middle-aged people went to other places to make a living. Since then, the fertile fields have been abandoned, the old houses have been vacant, the lanes have been sparse, the ancestral halls have been covered in dust, and the people have disappeared. The century-old village has become a hollow village, with only the elderly left behind and the migratory birds as companions, quietly withering in the evening wind and waves of the lake.
Mountains and rivers change, and the spring breeze returns home. Rural revitalization is taking hold on the shores of Pohu Lake, foreigners are returning to their hometowns, and grassroots cadres are working hard. Build embankments and roads, revitalize water and soil, use e-commerce to help farmers, revitalize fisheries, repair ancient temples, inherit family traditions, and deepen the lakeside ecology and ancient village context.
The barren hometown that they once desperately escaped from has now become a warm place to take root and establish a career. The novel is based on the ups and downs of four generations of villagers, connecting the ancient village's suffering past, hollow current situation and new chapter of revitalization, and writes the most authentic rural changes, human relationships and the rebirth of time by Poyang Lake.
