"Wind-blown courtyard gate

Author: Liu Liangcheng
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This is a collection of essays that consistently links the fate of people and the village together. Author Liu Liangcheng, though still in his thirties, has experienced the vicissitudes of rural China. Farmers, livestock, fields, wheat, and forests transform and reappear in his eyes, embodying life, death, decline, and prosperity. In the essay "How Long Does It Take to Feel at Home," he writes the following self-reflection: "I have always been grateful that I did not leave this village, nor did I waste my time and energy on another land; when I was young and strong, there were many temptations that almost led me away from here. But I stayed true to myself. The most successful thing I did was not let myself disappear under this sky." Thus, it is not difficult to see that the fertile yet poor land has become emotion, his philosophy.