Hanmen (Power List: Novel Library of Contemporary Chinese Writers)
This is a novel with the college entrance examination as the background of the times, and the theme of the creation of the children of peasant families who study hard and jump the dragon gate.
The novel is set in a remote mountain village in Yunnan, and tells the story of villagers who hope that their children can be admitted to university, fly out of the poor ravine, and take root and blossom in the big city.
They are struggling on a road to the sky, dreaming of one day running out of the cold: they have an uncompromising college entrance examination struggle, and they have a sci-fi dream of going to the sky and entering the water.
Reading books and exams are the only way for them to change their identity and destiny. Reality and ideals are blended, and suffering and sunshine coexist.
The sky in the chaff is small and big, and the fate of the people at the bottom is real and imaginary. Inside and outside the cold door, grievances are intertwined; Between cold and warm, only self-knowledge.
The author tries to depict a picture of the perseverance of rural students.