★Wenjin Book Award, Bingxin Prose Award-winning books in the same series! A new work of "China Countryside Series"!

★Huang Xiaoji, a well-known writer of rural poetry. He has taken his birthplace, Eight Centimeters Village, as a sample for his writing, counting the old rural artifacts of several generations of people in southern China, deeply reproducing the changes of a Chinese village over the decades, as well as the long-lasting memories of the countryside.

★This book pioneered the prose form of three-dimensional lyrical writing of rural farming pioneer, the book contains nearly 60 kinds of traditional rural events for a delicate and sincere description, not only has a greater literary value, but also a book helps readers to understand the rural events of the countryside.

★Professional illustrator spent half a year, hand-painted more than 30 beautiful illustrations with artistic value, two-colour graphic colour printing, three-dimensional restoration of rural farming scenes, to enhance the reader's sense of reading immersion.

In this book, Huang Xiaoji, a well-known writer of rural prose, focuses on his hometown, a typical mountain village in southern Hunan, Eight Centimeters Village, and writes about rural farming in the form of prose, supplemented by more than 30 beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, depicting in three dimensions nearly 60 kinds of traditional rural farming, such as ploughing fields, harvesting and planting in advance, paying tax paid in grain, picking herbs, picking camellia oleifera, cattle herding, beekeeping, forging iron, mending pans, flicking cotton quilt and so on, and showing the changes that have taken place in the countryside of China in the 1960s, and especially since the Reform and Opening Up.

Some of these agricultural events are no longer visible, and others have been replaced by modern equipment, becoming the epitome of the countryside of that time. However, these beautifully written prose of agricultural affairs, because they show the most primitive struggles between nature and men, and the simplest and most intimate relationship between men and nature, are exceptionally fascinating today. They are a unique historical picture of China's agricultural civilisation, a unique biography written for the southern countryside, and an earth art that embodies the beauty of harmony between men and nature.

Huang Xiaoji
Born in 1969 in Eight Centimeters Village in the mountainous area of southern Hunan Province, Huang Xiaoji is a member of the Chinese Writers' Association and the Chinese Prose Society, and has been awarded the Sun Li Prize for Prose and other prizes. In recent years, he has taken his birthplace as a sample to write about the social changes in the villages of southern China, and has written a number of collections of essays in the series of "Memories of Eight Centimeters", including "The Aging Village" and "The Time of Eight Centimeters".

Series 1.　Planting
Frieding Tea
Ploughing Fields
Planting Sprouts
Transplanting Rice Seedlings
Custody of Water
Insecticide
Harvesting and Planting in Advance
Paying Tax Paid in Grain
Tobacco Growing
Dividing up the Land

Series 2. Land Reclamation
Organic Fertiliser
Digging
Planting Beans
Planting Melons
Irrigating the Garden
Cutting Grains
Chopping Ramie
Pulling Peanuts
Digging Sweet Potatoes
Planting Winter Vegetables

Series 3. Mountain Reclamation
Reclaiming (Land) Mountain
Picking Camellia Oleifera
Knocking Down the Fruit of the Sycamore Tree
Collecting Firewood
Guarding the Mountain
Picking Bamboo Shoots
Picking Cranberries
Carrying China Fir Trees
Digging Manganese Stone
Picking Herbs

Series 4. Breeding
Cattle Herding
Pig Farming
Raising Dogs
Raising Rabbits
Raising Cats
Raising Chickens
Raising Ducks
Raising Fish
Beekeeping

Series 5. Handicraft
Doing Carpentry
Painting
Chiselling
Forging Iron
Mending Pans
Mending Shoes
Flicking Cotton Quilt
Tailoring
Fingering Yarn
Matchmaking
Shaving Head

Series 6. Agricultural Leisure
Building Reservoirs
Installation of Electricity
Making Bricks and Tiles
Burning Kilns
Building Houses
Going to Market
Story Telling
Watching films
Setting off Firecrackers