【Feature】
★Huang Xiaoji, a well-known writer of rural poetry, is a rural writer from the countryside. In recent years, he has taken his birthplace, Eight Centimeters Village, as a sample for his writing, and has formed a series of distinctive prose collections called "China Countryside Series ".
★ A different history of rural life in the south, 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.
★The book is divided into six series in spatial order, from distant to close, which is also a farmer's dayily labour route. The sequential order of artifacts in each series has also been carefully designed to follow the general order of the artifacts that the village people will use in their lifetime.
★The text is deeply rooted in the soil, writing about the innocence of childhood, the hardships of youth, and the worries of middle age. Under his description, every blade of grass, every tree, every flower and every vine is full of human warmth.
★Senior designers to manipulate the design of the binding, closely matching the theme of the old country artifacts; the profound skilled illustrators have spent half a year and repeatedly polished the 38 hand-drawn beautiful color illustrations, and 24 artifacts silhouette illustrations.
In this book, the author gives a comprehensive and systematic, delicate and affectionate description of the old and daily utensils in the countryside of southern China from the 1960s to the 1990s, with colourful illustrations of artistic value and beautiful layout design, vividly illustrates the years of southern farming through the generations, which is a different history of rural life in the south and a biography of the culture of Chinese countryside.
Unlike other writers who write about the countryside in the way of "experiencing life", this book is written by the author about the land where he was born and grew up, and the style of writing is simple but touching and intangible in a plain way.Read More
【Author】
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". |
