A village of one person

【Editor's Recommendation】
1. A model work of Chinese writing, a cultural classic that has touched generations: Popular for 24 years, touching 80 million people, highly recommended by Bai Yansong, Zhou Shen, Li Rui, Li Juan, Han Shaogong, Wei Xiaohe..., and Douban has received a high score of 8.9 from over 10,000 people.
2. Liu Liangcheng's masterpiece, a work of vitality and a book of life. "Some people say I can't surpass A Village of One Person. I'm right, I don't need to surpass it."
3. A must-read for students, including over 50 essays such as "The Cold Wind Blows Through," "Evidence of This Life," "Sleeping with Insects," "Smiling at a Flower," and "Firewood," which have been included in middle school Chinese textbooks and Chinese reading tests for junior and senior high schools across the country.
4. After more than 20 years, the classic is re-launched. The author has revised it for the first time in more than 20 years, corrected 62 problems in the old version, and wrote a new postscript to explain the revised content.
5. Exclusive copyright of Yilin Publishing House, featuring a brand-new masterpiece and a fully updated series, with overall binding design by Zhu Yingchun, winner of the "World's Most Beautiful Book" award. "Liu Liangcheng's Works," including the novels "Benba," "Empty Land," "Zaokong," and "A Message," the essay collections "A Village of One Person" and "In Xinjiang," and the collection of interview essays "Talking About Earthly Things in Heaven," are all exclusively licensed to Yilin Publishing House, encompassing all of Liu Liangcheng's significant works and presenting a comprehensive picture of his creative landscape and spiritual world. Liu Liangcheng is a true 21st-century pastoral writer, a spiritual guardian amidst the clamor of material desires, possessing the leisurely spirit of Tao Yuanming and the spatial and temporal capacities of Hayao Miyazaki. Upon submitting the entire "Liu Liangcheng's Works" collection to Yilin Publishing House, Liu Liangcheng systematically reviewed his ideas for the collection, personally revised it, corrected over 320 issues in the previous edition, and wrote a new afterword, fully explaining the revised direction and content of each volume. Renowned designer Zhu Yingchun designed the overall binding and spiritual design. As the author of "The Book of Bugs", Zhu Yingchun pays attention to nature and loves all living things. With an aesthetic taste that is highly consistent with Liu Liangcheng's, he perfectly presents the chaotic and self-sufficient literary world of Liu Liangcheng's universe.
【Content Introduction】
In Huangshaliang, a village where humans and animals coexist, the idler Liu Er's greatest joy is wandering the village: he plays with insects, watches others work, greets birds on branches, and admires the smile of a flower. He understands the hardships of mice, feels the strength of oxen and horses, watches the wind slant shadows, and measures the distance of a gust of wind. When he visits someone's house, he never pushes the door open; he waits for the wind to blow it open, then enters, only for the wind to close it again. His greatest daily activity is standing alone at the village entrance in the morning to greet the sunrise.
He understood the impermanence of life and death from the withering and flourishing of a tree, and the fate of his ancestors from the mournful cry of a bird. Drawing on thousands of years of Eastern poetic tradition, Liu Liangcheng carved out a realm of words as a spiritual habitat, creating a Chinese classic that remains unsurpassed to this day.
【Media Recommendation】
Liu Liangcheng's talent lies in his ability to wash words in a clear, transparent stream, leaving each one spotlessly clean. Yet, even these words, washed clean, possess a weightiness. Hefting them in his hands, each word feels so heavy it seems to slip away.
The writer Li Tuo and Liu Liangcheng were the last Chinese essayists of the 20th century. Though barely thirty years old, he had experienced the vicissitudes of rural China for thousands of years. Countless farmers, livestock, fields, wheat, and trees emerged and disappeared before his eyes, experiencing life and death, decline and prosperity. He had lived too long.
—Poet and scholar Lin Xianzhi: It's rare to read such simple, serene, yet profound and rich writing. I'm truly amazed at how the author, amidst the rolling desert, achieved such a profound understanding of life and language. Talking about this collection of essays by Liu Liangcheng, I truly feel the joy and comfort of arriving at an oasis.
——Writer Li Rui The kind of text I have wanted to write for many years has been written by Liu Liangcheng.
——The calm, elegant and self-confidence revealed in the essays of writers Han Shaogong and Liu Liangcheng is a great talent that many modern people have long missed and are unfamiliar with, and cannot find even after enduring long nights and scratching their heads.
——Writer Jiang Zidan stood in the center of the village, without looking around, and slowly wrote about all the warm and down-to-earth things: the village where people and animals live together, the soft and joyful details of daily life, the ancient and solemn order, and the fair and beautiful destiny.
——Writer Li Juan
At the end of the 20th century, a Chinese man named Liu Liangcheng reminded us again in the way he faced the world that the fire of ancient Greece can still shine again. If we miss it again, we will sigh in vain in every remaining moment, envying a man named Liu Liangcheng who looked at a village so carefully.
——The writer Xu Zechen's memories and descriptions are not the kind of literati we often see. He is not sentimental nor pretentious. You can see the appearance of the soil and feel the pain of the skin caused by the wind and sand. However, in terms of writing and thoughts, Liu Liangcheng is far away from the land, almost flying into the sky.
——Book reviewer Wei Xiaohe

2022-01-01

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