Life in Minzhuang Village

The Minzhuang Village described by Min Shengyu is the miniature of a village that was about to die out in the urbanization movement in China. This book records the essays the author wrote to his hometown over the past twenty years. Using the narration technique, the author recorded the transition in this village. There is no love story or fairy tale in today's left-behind Minzhuang Village.It is an inevitable outcome of the urbanization that Minzhuang is doomed to disappear. However, for the author, it is a land of sorrow, but also a land of happiness. He recorded the joy, anger, sorrow and happiness of local people with his pen. The author has deep feelings on the village he used to live in. His words are sometimes melancholy or comforting to show his happiness or sadness. He wrote the interesting games in his childhood, events in the village in the past, matters such as birth, senility, illness and death of people in Minzhuang Village, as well as local conditions and customs of Yanchi County. Each person in Minzhuang Village in his book is unique. Life in Minzhuang Village is interesting in content and inclusive in language, and has retained the original favor of local life. It records the real life and feelings of local people. It shows the local characteristics of the land of Yanchi County. Min Shengyu has long been engaged in essay writing. His books (including this book) concentrate on society and the reality, in which the author has truthfully recorded the past, the present and the future of Minzhuang and his thoughts about the fate of local people. Those contents are seemingly to arouse the sympathy of the reader.