Hundred-year En Gong River

Author: Nan Yu Jian
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: An epic that portrays the national soul, A Hundred Years of the En Gong River. In this expansive work, the author presents a series of vivid and spectacular epic-style landscapes to the readers, including clay figurines, venomous turtles, plum blossom stamps, floating gourds, and En Gong ballads. Among them, the interweaving of good and evil, the struggle between beauty and ugliness, the clash between the spiritual and the physical, the conflict between officials and the people, the ever-changing social reality and the colorful national culture, the unyielding national spirit and the public's desire to punish evil and promote goodness, the noble ideals of heroic figures and the indelible love of life and death, the corrupt transactions in the treacherous officialdom and the profound Christian teachings from abroad, and so on. This is a grand, majestic, and substantial work that interprets the history of modern China over the past century! As the main character of the book, Hai Shui Qing, from engaging in revolution to the liberation of the nation, from underground struggles to governing a region, from participating in the Great Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the Great Leap Forward to the Reform and Opening-Up, has, through nearly a century of leading the people of Lianzhou in bloodshed, hard struggle, and building their homeland, become a meritorious professional revolutionary figure, hailed by the people as the "Living Christ." The work not only highly condenses the history of a common village in the En Gong River Basin over a century but also artistically recreates the history of Lianzhou over a century, vividly accomplishing the history of a revolutionary figure over a century. In this expansive work, the author presents a series of spectacular epic-style landscapes to the readers: the gentle En Gong River, the ancient Lianzhou over a hundred years; the winding Baoming Ridge, the Hai Shui Qing. The interweaving of good and evil, the struggle between beauty and ugliness, the clash between the spiritual and the physical, the conflict between officials and the people, the ever-changing social reality and the colorful national culture, the unyielding national spirit and the public's desire to punish evil and promote goodness, the noble ideals of heroic figures and the indelible love of life and death, the corrupt transactions in the treacherous officialdom and the Christian teachings from abroad, and so on. Based on a grand narrative structure, fully showcasing human nature, and profoundly revealing the essence of life, the work encompasses all aspects of human life. The key to accurately interpreting the work lies in the final chapter, The Trial of the Dead. After Hai Shui Qing undergoes the trial of the Grand Judge and the interrogation by Hai Hei Tou, he finally realizes: the common people are the En Gong of the Communist Party, they are my Hai Shui Qing's "God"! And the sense of repentance of Hai Shui Qing and the other spirits is particularly rare and moving! In the contemporary literary scene, where ideological anemia is prevalent, this book stands out uniquely in accomplishing a century-long history of the soul of our nation.