Introduction to the work "On Poyang Lake"
"On Poyang Lake" is a novel about the local epic of Ganpo that spans seventy-eight years. The book is spread out in seventy-two chapters and four volumes. It uses the waters of Poyang Lake and the villages near the lake as the stage to connect the ups and downs of the fate of three generations of Huxiang people. The work is rooted in the customs of Duchang Lake in Jiangxi Province, reflecting the changes of the times through the rise and fall of the lake water, the return of migratory birds, and the rise and fall of fishing and farming. It integrates local images such as Qianyan Bridge, Laoye Temple, reeds on the lake beach, fishermen's lights, clan ancestral halls, and folk fishing drums.
The novel was written from the stable fishing town in 1948, and has gone through the turmoil of the world, the precarious livelihood, the 1998 floods, the hollowing out of cities and rural areas, until the ecological recovery in the new era, the return of wanderers, and the renewal of the cultural context. Based on the life trajectories of the three generations of Shouhu, Lihu, and Guihu, it depicts the joys and sorrows of ordinary villagers, their nostalgia for their hometown, and the ups and downs of the years.
The writing style of the whole book is gentle and thick, with compassion and restraint. It has the delicate warmth of the fireworks in the water town and the vastness and weight of the tide of the times. View the world with one lake, see the mountains and rivers of the times with the dim light of the country, and write about the unique cultural heritage, humanistic character and everlasting feelings of the hometown of Ganpo.
