Editor's Note:
Recently, our new book "Wangjiangnan" has dominated the list and achieved a lot of results, of course, we have also heard some "over-marketing" and "embarrassing" doubts.
As a publisher, one of our work goals is to expose and recommend books on multiple platforms as much as possible, but the ultimate fate of books is the books themselves, and the final evaluation of books is still handed over to readers.
We have always believed that there is no truth before reading. Whether it's praise and recommendation or friendly criticism, the author and we welcome it.
It's a two-way journey, and we perceive the charm of reading in our interactions with each other.
In this issue, we will share with you readers' evaluations of the book "Wangjiangnan".
Perhaps there are friends who do not understand the book "Wangjiangnan", first attach some previous articles to you:
The following reviews and images are from readers
arkida:2022 #33 Around the story of the Hangzhou Longjing tea making family, I learned a lot of "tea" knowledge. There are many characters in the scene, everyone's story is detailed and tactful, and the relationship between the characters is not clear when reading the first three chapters, but it increases the interest of "revealing the secret". It does not deliberately render the highs and lows of the times, but writes the story elegantly, lightly and endlessly. Worth a second reading!
Hertz Mo: It was as if I had drunk a cup of tea with endless aromas and endless memories, and followed the Hang family through the years of the stormy meeting.
The heart is like mint slightly cool: there is separation, reunion, death, hurt, greed, betrayal, there is also indifference, perseverance, tolerance, Hangzhou brothers and sisters, gone, dead, alive, from noisy to lonely, from brilliant to plain, from the old era into the new era.
Lan Cangyue: Teacher Wang Xufeng's achievements in words and dialects are fascinating, and after reading through the whole book, he can't find out which of these 400,000 words are superfluous or complicated. On the contrary, some point-to-point words and sentences with metaphors can always make people clap their hands while reading. For those who read Mr. Wang's works for the first time, this book that took 26 years to write a book is definitely worth reading and reading repeatedly.
Mo Feng: It seems to be telling the ups and downs of the Hang family of the Jiangnan tea family and the fate of the characters, but in fact, it connects a period of ups and downs and turbulence in China's modern history. The smoke and rain in Jiangnan make the stories in the smoke of war seem even more breathless. People say that Jiangnan people are gentle and elegant, but "Wangjiangnan" lets us see that jiangnan's tea aromatic tea has a warm-blooded character and home-country feelings, gentle but not cowardly, soft but not weak. It is a kind of "tea man spirit" that does not change with the times and does not change with the world - not a social change far from the new era, but a person who still does not forget to hold up the teacup in it.
Bad student: a very thick brick book, a very elegant title, thought it was a long romance, it turned out to be a craftsman epic. The author Wang Xufeng's penmanship does not let the eyebrows be shaved, using a woman's elegant pen, but writing about the years of home and country, the choices of each person in the book and the path to take are very holistic, the personal fate and the family and the nation should be read accordingly, swinging the intestines, opening and closing and cleverly falling into the subtleties. Like this sentence: "The more they want to liberate all mankind, the more they unconsciously alienate their families; the more they love the suffering of the world, the farther they go on the road of their six relatives." Life hopes are like tea, and the world is accidentally the same.
Book Sea Rafting: "Wangjiangnan" inherits the solid style and close plot of the "Tea Man Trilogy", with this tea of the "Seven Things to Open the Door" in the life of the Chinese people, it embodies the delicate and elegant side of the Chinese nation, every year the new tea is fragrant every year, and the tea people are passed down from generation to generation, teacher Wang Xufeng continues to use the spring and autumn changes of the Small Family of Hang's family to show the past of everyone's song and cry, those dust sealed in the archives, displayed in the exhibition hall, written in the books, under the display of the small family, become flesh and blood, Our home is guarded by the members of this family, and our country is carefully guarded by countless pure hearts, making people feel the temperature of human feelings beyond the thickness of history.
Dachun Swage: I love this book so much, first because of the tea, which brought me here and then was brewed by history. Everyone has their own life, but they can't escape the luck of the times. The aroma of tea is long, and only those who can taste it appreciate it, and those who are abandoned by the times can still manage what tea is not tea.
zzznnn: After reading it, the elegance and steadiness of the tea people are closely linked to the historical occasion.
Huangfu Yunxiu: In that war era of war, there was such a family, they cared for each other, warmed each other, had a human touch, even if they were in the swamp, they were full of hope, too beautiful and too hopeful, and they didn't want to go away as soon as they got closer. My visitor was touched by their stories, crying and laughing with the story, let alone the people in the story? The Hang family, this tea family can maintain stability in the chaotic world, due to being like tea, as introverted and peaceful as tea. Therefore, those who love tea are also those who are favored by Heaven!
Leifeng: A pot of tea, a life. Smoke and rain in March, Longjing wafting incense. Although I have lived in Hangzhou for so many years, I still haven't been able to better integrate. I want to know a more beautiful paradise Hangzhou, I want to know more mellow Hangzhou tea stories, I want to read a book about Hangzhou Hangzhou's family's story about tea about life, live for life, live in the big era, the sad and happy life of small people. When I was in high school, I read Mr. Wang's articles, and now I want to read the teacher's new works, love to read, and read good books.
Little Milk Leopard: Wang Xufeng has been promoting Chinese tea culture to go out, is a senior tea culture researcher in China, has won the "Mao Dun Literature Award" and "Five One Project Award", or the main planner and chief writer of CCTV tea culture programs, and has repeatedly represented China to spread the Chinese tea ceremony abroad. I like tea culture very much, and look forward to this "Wangjiangnan", in the qiankun of a leaf, tasting the world's human feelings, understanding the fate of the flow of tea people's spirit, Jiangnan culture, family and country feelings to witness personal history, family history, national history in the century-old China.
Look for something simple: I have never been to Hangzhou, and if I want to experience the mountains and rivers of Hangzhou in books, I will definitely linger.
Ma Ma: Tea is one of the element symbols of Chinese culture, interpreted by tea culture experts in the green tea capital, using tea as an image to refract the torment, purification and ascension between the times, Wang Xufeng's rafters are like huge pens.
Sugar Bao'er: The water of the Spring River is as green as blue, can you not remember Jiangnan? In the smoke and rain of Jiangnan, the beautiful scenery and strong cultural heritage, look forward to the epidemic is no longer, can go down to Jiangnan to play
Chang'an: The fragrance of tea, the steam of blood, the collision of hearts, the entanglement of love, intertwined under the author's beautiful and gentle and introverted pen; century wind, Hangcheng historical shadow, tea rise and fall, tea people's feelings, mutual reflection, integration in a furnace, Jiangnan scenery is good, tea is better, people, better.
Lucky comic: the change across the times, from one cultural experience to another culture, from one system experience to another system, the family grows up in the change of the times, witnesses the birth of a real society, lives in continuous exploration, and finally ushers in the sunshine of a new society. It's an exciting work.
When the clouds rise: When I first read Dongpo's "Wangjiangnan And Transcendental Taizuo", I felt the word "transcendence" in transcendent Taichung, showing the freedom and detachment of life; "And try new tea with new fire" and "poetry and wine take advantage of the years" two sentences, in fact, contain the life interest of the three religions of Dongpo residents, "tea" represents the Buddhist family, tea is first bitter and then sweet and even first bitter and then slightly sweet, admonishing people to live in every moment, live well in each moment, life will eventually be hazed, the sunshine is thousands of miles; "wine" represents the Taoist wandering, casualness, and freedom; "poetry" Represents the poetry of Confucianism. Through this poem, we can feel the thinking and relief of Dongpo residents about life and suffering. And Wang Xufeng's author's "Wangjiangnan" is written about Hangzhou, tea, people, and life, as the tweet said, "In the big days that can't be bigger, how can ordinary people live their own small lives?" This is the hang family's problem, in fact, it is also a question that each of us has to ask ourselves every day. "I hope that each of us can face the suffering of life, have a calm, open-minded, optimistic and free." Because the haze will eventually dissipate, only it is the sunshine.
Of course, "a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets", and some readers have given criticism.
Hey, President Ofe Koo: Not bad. Although there are some flaws and the language style is relatively plain (I think many literary and artistic young people may be indifferent), but when the inspiration is everywhere, this kind of river-style writing is rare, and it assumes the significance of the novel as a "national secret history".
Twilight came towards him: "The autumn mountain rain first rests, and the lan qi is half-empty." The rock grass is wet, and the trail flowers are dewy. Yun Shen hid the ancient temple, and the creek concealed the Qin Zheng. I want to know the taste of tea, and I want to cook in the rain. " The process of reading I felt like I was cultivating immortals... It can be said to be a clear tea, bland from beginning to end. As a literary work, almost meaningless.
Tonight and Night: Longjing tea drunk from before the Ming Dynasty to before the rain is a fresh but not timeless spring tea. The characters, plots, and backgrounds each speak their own words, but fortunately, the golden sentences are frequent, and many local chronicles are popularized. I think it is an interesting popular science book, but it is not a good novel.
Finally, I would like to share with you the editor-in-charge and my personal evaluation:
Responsible Editor: "Wangjiangnan" is one of the few good manuscripts I have come into contact with in my editorial work. The accurate grasp of the big history, the careful observation of the small days, and the polishing of the written language, among these three points, there are very few writers who can complete one of them, and Teacher Wang has completed these three points. The cost of accomplishing these three points is that the writer is also revising the manuscript when he is in the hospital, and he is still revising the manuscript at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night. In the one year I ran with Wangjiangnan, I also went from a rational and calm literary critic to a participant with deeper empathy, and really participated in the process of knowledge production.
Marketing Editor: I've always believed that content comes first. Marketing editors need to read books and need to carefully figure out the content and selling points. From the completion of the manuscript to the completion of the book, "Wangjiangnan" I have read 3 times, written countless recommended copy, advertorial, manuscript, in such a high-intensity work situation, the text will be tired, but still firmly moved by Wang Xufeng's language, Wang Xufeng's personal charm, and three events: a funeral, a Chinese New Year's Eve night and a wedding. Also, as a reader, I'm destined to read this book a fourth time.
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