Beautiful fields

Author: Feng Yanfei
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Facing hardships, facing poverty, facing corruption, facing his homeland, the soul of demobilized soldier Tianye begins to awaken. On his hometown's land, which is not particularly beautiful, he leads his fellow villagers to tell beautiful stories, express beautiful emotions, sing beautiful songs together, and perform beautiful love.
In the first month of 1948, I was born in Li Jiatun, a place in the west suburbs of Changchun, where the was raging. My tragedy lies in this: although I was born in a bustling city, my first half of life had nothing to do with the city, though I longed for it; although due to my parents' reasons, I was not tall (a "man" of less than five feet), but also due to my parents' reasons, my social status was quite high—landlord. Therefore, in the era of class struggle as the guiding principle, from childhood to youth, I lived a rather humble and precarious life.
In the autumn of 1964, after graduating from a rural junior high school, I, due to the well-known reasons, interrupted my path of further studies. My homeroom teacher and the principal of the rural high school I attended were very responsible and said I "had reactionary remarks." As someone who was always busy making progress, I was deeply distressed upon hearing this news.