Brief Introduction of Red Sorghum Family

In the early 1930s, bandits were rampant in Gaomi, Shandong Province, and the people were in dire straits. 19-year-old Jiu-Er, the daughter of a ruined landlord in Northeast China, was given a unilateral wave by her greedy father to the son of a leprous hotel owner. Yu Zhanao, a powerful barber shop, loved Jiu-Er and killed a single father and son.

Jiu-Er and Yu Zhanao started a love that was not recognized by the villagers, and they had two children. With the help of wine-making master Lohan and others, Jiu-Er gradually grew from a simple girl to a competent female shopkeeper of sorghum distillery, which revitalized a single distillery.

Yu Zhanao, on the other hand, led his brothers to form their own armed forces, dealing with local governments, bandits, iron clubs and other forces. The July 7th Incident broke out and the Japanese army invaded Shandong, which broke the past prosperity of Gaomi County.

In the face of national justice, Yu Zhanao and other forces put aside their differences, stopped disputes and fought against Japan. At the time of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, Jiu-Er led the team and led the Japanese devils to the sorghum fields.

Ignite red sorghum, mutually assured destruction with the enemy, and write a legendary story of love and conquest, ambition and will with his own life in Gaomi, Shandong Province.

Extended data:

The Red Sorghum Family is based on the folk life of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Gaomi Northeast Township in 1930s and 1940s. The story is a mixture of chaos and heterogeneity, which finally shapes the background of the times through strong stimulation, reproduces the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era for readers from a folk perspective, and shows a strong desire for survival.

The theme of the novel Red Sorghum Family is interpreted as carrying forward positive vitality and the spirit of pursuing freedom, the spirit of yearning for individual liberation and the spirit of reconstruction and creation. Its original intention is to transform the weak national character with the help of the vitality of the primitive wild folk culture in Gaomi Northeast Township, call for a strong life form, and call on the Chinese nation to be self-respecting, self-reliant, anti-slavery and rebellious, with a healthy personality and national quality.

The works of "Red Sorghum Family" have caused profound thinking on people and their fate, human values, life and death, vitality, national spirit and ethics at the philosophical level.

In the process of self-reflection, self-recognition, self-praise and self-criticism, writers pursue national cultural psychology and national spiritual strength with an expressive expression. What runs through the whole novel is a vigorous, free and passionate praise tone of life state, which makes people excited.

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