This book weaves together the natural world, historical customs, and the human spirit with a legendary, vivid imagination and a sweeping perspective that encompasses both the heavens and the earth. Through images and words imbued with a sense of the supernatural, it narrates one life story after another--stories of lives that have flourished within the Qinling Mountains and across the Chinese landscape. The novel opens at the Yellow River's grand canyon in Shanxi and Shaanxi, where the mighty river unfurls the epic prologue. Through natural motifs--heaven and earth, living creatures, ancient pagodas, trees, and rivers--it blends tradition with modernity, cosmic forces with human affairs, sketching a vibrant, fragrant, and spiritually evocative contemporary "mountain dwelling" tableau.
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