What is the content of Jinshan written by Zhang Ling?

In April and May of 2009, People's Literature serialized Zhang Ling's latest masterpiece and novel Jinshan. A novel serialized for two consecutive periods is rare in the history of people's literature. "Golden Mountain" is based on the historical fact that villagers from Kaiping, Guangdong, came to Canada to pursue their golden dreams in the second half of the 9th century. Taking waiting as the axis, the whole novel started a long historical process of seeking, pursuing and realizing, and was finally ruthlessly broken by reality. The hero Fang Defa, the son of a pig slayer, sailed to North America with a fellow countryman named Hong Mao in the darkest period of the late Qing Dynasty. North America was called "Golden Mountain" by these early immigrants, who risked their lives across the ocean to find their dream utopia. When Fang Defa returned to China for the first time, he agreed with Six Fingers (Guan), the heroine of the novel, that is, he promised to take his wife Six Fingers to Canada. His persistence in the agreed story of the exchange of dragon and phoenix stickers throughout his life is the driving force to push the novel forward. The hero Fang Defa and Herry Liu have been in love for more than half a century, but they failed to realize their promise. Six fingers waited for more than fifty years, but failed to get together with Fang Defa after all. Every time the effort and waiting for reunion, the hero and heroine have paid a huge price and sacrifice. There are political events and personalities here. Legends in the novel are interspersed with major social events in Canada and China, including two world wars, exclusion of Chinese and Japanese, poll tax, hundred-day reform, Revolution of 1911, Sino-Japanese War, liberation war, land reform, and economic globalization in 2 1 century. The novel reveals the relationship between the fate of the characters and history, the joys and sorrows of the characters, and where are you going? The novel is dominated by man-made historical events, which is inseparable from history and an intuitive interpretation of history. Fang Yuanchang, the first generation of Fang family, made a fortune because of windfall, but lost his family business because of smoking opium. Fang Defa is the second generation of Fang family. Under the guidance of fellow countryman Hong Mao, he took the "Golden Mountain Dream" to North America and began his life adventure. However, in Canada, China people are discriminated against. They were not only humiliated by all kinds of "health checks" when they entered this country, but also bullied by their qualifications, and they were also exploited by foreign foremen when they made contributions to this country (building railways, etc.). ), and the danger of the project often costs them their lives. Although the arrival of Chinese has injected vitality into Canada's prosperity and development, the discriminatory Chinese exclusion bill is still put into practice. China people have to pay a high poll tax to reunite their families. Therefore, when they came to Canada, they not only experienced the humiliation and bitterness of being in a foreign country, but also separated from their families for a long time, which also laid a distant foreshadowing for his later life tragedy. Fang Defa worked hard in Canada all his life, and finally he could only make up the "poll tax" for his two sons, Fang Jinshan and Fang Jinhe, to enter Canada, and his long-cherished wish of bringing his wife six fingers to Canada for reunion has never been realized. As the third generation of the Fang family, Fang Jinshan and Fang Jinhe fought for the upper reaches in Canada, and had emotional and desire entanglements with Indian and white women, but in the end they could not get rid of the fate of the Chinese, and copied the life tragedies like their parents-racial discrimination and family suffering. At the same time, Herry Liu and Fang Jinxiu, who stayed in their hometown, endured the pain of separation, the torment of life and the teasing of fate along with the war, turmoil and earth-shaking changes in the history of China in the 20th century. The fourth generation of Fang family has belonged to two different worlds, China and Canada. Fang Yanshan's daughter Fang Yanling was born in Canada. She has no experience of living in her hometown, let alone memories of her hometown. She has nothing in common with Yao Kai (son of Jinhe), Guo Huai and Huaixiang (splendid children) who were born in Kaiping. However, although they lived in Jinshan and Kaiping on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, they suffered the same tragedy: Fang Yanling was burdened with the original sin of China people and was unhappy all his life; Yao Kai was killed by a Japanese plane and Hu Aixiang was shot dead. In the fifth generation, Fang was no longer a pure China person-Fang Yanling's daughter, although she could speak Chinese, was already a foreigner with a "alienated appearance". If her ancestors hadn't left a unique historical mark in Kaiping, her hometown, Kaiping Diaolou, was "De", and she had long lost contact with the Chinese in her blood. In order to complete the task assigned by her mother Fang Yanling, she came to Kaiping, where she lived for generations, and inadvertently opened the door to her life and family history. Once the door was opened, her life entered a new realm: she finally found a world that belonged to her, but she almost abandoned it.