"Golden Bough" Author: Shao Li Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

On the bank of the Ying River, which originated from the thousand-year-old homeland of the Central Plains, there is an ancient village - Zhou Zhou Village. The dreams and realities, roots and branches, origins and present of five generations of a family are vividly presented in this novel. The escape, pain, estrangement and integration among the relatives of the Zhou family are moving. The historical cycle of the family elites gathering from the countryside to the city and returning from the city to the countryside truly shows the huge differences and changes between the city and the countryside, and writes about the joys and sorrows of life from estrangement to integration. Through the rebellion, competition and understanding of the two daughters in the city and the countryside, they reach the same destination in different ways, thus revealing the adherence and resistance, struggle and struggle of the women in the family under traditional culture, supporting the soul and rebirth of this homeland.

Shao Li is a contemporary Chinese writer. Her works have been published in People's Literature, Contemporary, October, Harvest and other publications, and have been selected for publications such as Novel Monthly, Novel Selection, Xinhua Digest, and some of her works have been translated abroad. She has won the People's Literature Annual Novella Award, the Novel Selection Biennial Award, the 15th and 16th Hundred Flowers Novella Award, the 10th October Literature Award Novella Award and many other awards. The novella Minghui's Christmas won the 4th Lu Xun Literature Award.