"Rice and Millet" (Part 1 and Part 2)

Author: Xi Yue
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: "Dao Liang Mou" (The) - The Confusion of a Decade of Life
"Dao Liang Mou" arrives at the right time for the era. It is beneficial to read from the beginning, and young friends should pay more attention to these good literary works. — Wang Dingguo (94 years old, former Red Army Long March veteran, wife of Xie Juezai, former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
"Dao Liang Mou" is a long novel reflecting reality and focusing on the life of the lower-middle class, written by young author Xi Yue after accumulating over 30 years of life insights and taking six years to meticulously craft it, following "West City Spy Shadow." The novel tells the story of a group of young people in a coastal city called Yi Zhou, who are on the verge of entering their forties and face life bottlenecks in career, love, and life. They are filled with negativity, heaviness, confusion, and. After experiencing many worldly trials, they step out of life's, gain clarity, awaken, and truly understand the rich and beautiful essence of life.
The novel uses micro-carving psychological descriptions to comprehensively portray the various life encounters of the protagonist, Li Ting, as well as his emotional journey from sensuality to rationality with Yu Hong, a female reporter from the newspaper. It focuses on and reveals the reconstruction of a person's character for survival (), as well as the internal relationships between human nature, environment, survival, and development.