Midnight Guardian

Author: Wang Xufeng
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: Wang Xufeng won the Mao Dun Literature Prize this year, and her winning work "The Tea Master Trilogy" has garnered increasing attention. This novel, which spans 10 years of the author's writing history, uses green tea as its theme and sets it against the backdrop of the late Qing and early Republic era, depicting the gradual decline of a tea family. It is both grand and refined. It also has a legendary story. When "A Forest of Southern Bamboo" was published, Wang Xufeng got married, adding to the joy. The novel also won the 1995 China Propaganda Department's "Five One Project" Award, the National "Eighth Five-Year Plan" Outstanding Novel Award, and the Zhejiang Second Lu Xun Literature Award. The Commercial Press in Taiwan also published it, truly a joy doubled. Later, when the second novel "The Sleepless City" was released, her daughter was also born, making it double joy. I remember when the third novel "Building a City with Grass" was presented as part of the "Zhejiang Realism Fine Project" for a discussion in Beijing, the critics at the time gave it high praise. Now, having won the grand prize, it can be said that success is complete. In the year 2000, a single flower blooms alone, supreme and unique. From then on, the next great era of Huacha will begin with a completely different fate. The novel portrays the spirit and resilience of Hangzhou tea masters who, despite profound hardships, endure, sacrifice, and still strive forward on the arduous path of life.