Grain Fortress

This is not a novel, but a memory of the life of a Chinese peasant family for nearly a hundred years.
This book focuses on the experience of a peasant couple from Henan Province, who traveled back and forth between the Dabie Mountains and Xiushui River in Jiangxi Province during the period from 1930 to 2011. In particular, during the great famine of 1959, addressed as "grain fortress" by locals, how a family of six managed to escape and survive.
From a different perspective, it narrated life with many folk customs, such as lighting lanterns at the graves on the night of the Lantern Festival, sticky rice cakes, molded cakes, child brides, foot binding and the making of Taoist priests.
The author gives a detailed description of Chinese family names, given names, rank names, and alias names, allowing readers to delve deep into Chinese tradition.