"Wang Nenghao" Author: Wei Sixiao Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction
▼ A free-spirited man who talks too much, is annoying and ignored all his life.
▼ The final work of Wei Sixiao's "Rural Trilogy" is based on Wang Nenghao's departure, return and accidental death, constructing a history of the demise of rural life. It tells how people here live, how they love each other, and how they die, with deep compassion and a lament for fate.
▼ "When someone else's disaster strikes for the first time, we are outraged. When someone else's disaster strikes one after another, we become numb and choose to turn a blind eye." Wei Sixiao uses the form of a novel to reflect on ordinary life that is subject to disasters and difficulties.
▼One of the top 5 finalists of the 5th Blancpain Literature Award. Law professor Luo Xiang's favorite work: "This novel has an enlarged Runtu and an enlarged Ah Q."
▼ Novelist recommended by Liang Hong, Han Dong, Li Zhen and Luo Xiang: Collaborative but not fawning, sarcastic but respectful, a writer of the times who will eventually become a great figure.
▼ Humorous and witty language, a modern-day Ah Q who is despised by others and yet despises others!
▼ The final work of Wei Sixiao’s Rural Trilogy.

【Recommendation】
The miserable and kind-hearted peasants are a consistent theme in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, but you write differently from them. Yours is very miserable and realistic.
——Xu Zidong (critic)
The one I appreciate most among these five works is "Wang Neng Hao". In this book, I saw an enlarged Runtu, an enlarged Ah Q, and then I also saw myself. Just as the name of the book, "Wang Neng Hao", this person wants to be a king, but he is an unknown person. This person wants to be a capable person, but he is actually powerless. He may also want to be a good person, but he is actually not good, he is a very mediocre person, he is a very familiar, very ordinary person hidden around us, but he also wrote into my heart.
——Luo Xiang (Law Professor)
The time setting and structure of "Wang Neng Hao" are very innovative. It has a large capacity, but not so many chapters, and the language is also good, which is also very good.
——Lin Bai (writer)
I read Wang Neng Hao in one go. Although this novel is about rural life, it captures the inner life of all Chinese people, their desire for life, and their expectations for life. The language of Wang Neng Hao is very good, and we are very moved by it. After all, our literature has an inner growth force.
——Leung Wing On (Professor)
Works like "Wang Nenghao" are so rooted in reality, the latest development of China's rural folk writing tradition, and yet they achieve very sophisticated narrative features.
——Wang Dewei (Professor)
【Content Introduction】
Wang Nenghao is Wei Sixiao's latest novel. It tells the story of a farmer's departure, return and accidental death, weaving a Ukiyo-e of contemporary rural life, and describing Wang Nenghao's seven days in his hometown. These seven days were the last turmoil, the last vitality, and the last yearning for a better world in his remaining life. After seven days, Wang Nenghao was still 45 years old, but he had already entered his twilight years.
Wei Sixiao constructs his observation and understanding of rural life, that is, the more common helplessness of rural characters in the face of the manipulation of fate. They try again and again to establish connections with life, but all suffer from life's teasing and rejection. The plight of these characters is not only material, but also manifested in the hardship of spiritual life.
【epitaph】
Wang Nenghao, a native of Zibo, Shandong, was born in 1969 and died in 2019 at the age of fifty. He was talkative since childhood and had a high level of education. He has farmed, worked, built houses, done renovations, and is proficient in using all kinds of farm tools, but is not good at using electrical equipment. He has a casual personality, loves freedom, and is unwilling to be disciplined. Before the age of thirty, he followed the construction team to build houses everywhere, and after the age of thirty, he worked odd jobs in the labor market. He does not smoke, but likes to drink. After drinking, he has a perverse temperament and loves to curse. He can endure hardships, is not afraid of being tired, is frugal, does not like to spend money, relies on his hands and sweat, and leaves more than 300,000 savings after his death. He is the eldest of three brothers. He built two new houses for his family throughout his life, allowing his two younger brothers to get married and live in a side room. He is talkative and annoying. After adulthood, he has had many blind dates, but he has no marriage fate.
【Read and recommend】
I also admire Wei Sixiao's consistent writing style, which is cooperative but not flattering, sharp but respectful, and has a good balance and truth-seeking quality, as revealed in his works. This will be a writer of the times who will eventually become a great writer.
——Han Dong (novelist, poet)
"Wang Nenghao" depicts a man's life of neglect. He is a marginal person in society, with a complex personality, but there is a faint light flickering. The author's writing is sincere and the details are exquisite. It is a microcosm of many rural characters today.
——Liang Hong (writer, scholar)
From "Yu Shi Wu Qu" to "Wang Neng Hao", Wei Sixiao wrote about the current rural China and people's lives and their search for life. It is the story of our fathers who are not far away, and it is also the homesickness of our generation.
——Li Zhen (critic, scholar)