Reading the Homeland

a a This book brings together the prose written by author Li Xu in recent years. He grew up in Damshang, Hebei Province, and has written about his homeland in a simple way, although his prose is mostly from ordinary things, but it is active with a lot of solid details and experiences. He holds abundant feelings for those unassuming agricultural affairs and folks, and gives them solemn writing. There is a resilience, a quietness, and an equality in his writing, and he pays tribute to his hometown and relatives with genuine affection. Li Xu's special feature in these articles does not lie in the fact that his emotional expression is more grandiose than others, but lies precisely in the fact that he insists on telling in a restrained way, and he writes about these people's hardships, difficulties, kindness and warmth in a straightforward way, the narrative is plain and sincere, and the sharpness of the emotion is quietly converged, and what impresses us the most is the scenes, details and facts, and their understanding of life: tolerance, compassion, and the ability to understand life, which is the most important thing. The deepest impression on us is instead the scenes, details and facts, as well as their understanding of life: tolerance, compassion, and resilience that ordinary people don't have.