The novel mainly describes the situation that Lin Dong, an agricultural poor farmer, and his brother-in-law Fenzhou are not satisfied with the status quo and struggle for development under the pressure of life. Fenzhou, which is skillful in calculation, and Lindong, who is practical, have opened a shop in the bustling Hukou Wharf. Since then, they have come out of pure agricultural families and connected traditional agriculture with urban society through business. As time went on, the two in-laws accumulated a lot of money through business, and they decided to build their new house. However, when they surveyed and chose the ideal homestead together, Fenzhou was fascinated by a small piece of the best flat land (just enough to build a big house) that Mr. Feng Shui had broken down into "dragon spit beads". So he didn't tell his brother-in-law, Lin Dong, that he occupied this "Feng Shui" treasure, which made Lin Dong very dissatisfied. Because of the helplessness of blood relationship, Lin Dong had to find a slope to build a house on the other side of his brother-in-law's house. From the field scene, the house in Fenzhou is just on the rare flat land in the valley in front of Longtou Mountain, which is very consistent with the geomantic landscape theory of "Dragon Figure Bamboo" and much better than the house site built by Lin Dong on the hillside later. According to the traditional concept of Feng Shui in China, this undoubtedly indicates that the Fenzhou family has a bright future. However, life is not always smooth. The author tells the story that this partnership shop traded rice and salted fish by shipping from Minjiang River, and finally found an important way to make money. At the same time, he also expounded the troubles and misfortunes that Lindong and Fenzhou encountered in the process of communization. Fenzhou was in a difficult situation in family affairs at first, but later it could not adapt to the business relationship and changing environment of the store, so it had to quit the hukou store business and become one of the sponsors. Helpless, Fenzhou's son also lost the opportunity to start a new business because of mistakes and incompetence. On the contrary, Lin Dong successfully got rid of the troubles of litigation and controlled the disputes that often occur within the family. Lin Dong keeps learning how to adapt to the challenge of fate, is good at cooperating with friends, and has won the success of business operation. Golden wings
Taking the rise and fall of Zhang and Huang's rural families as clues, Golden Wing describes and analyzes the social and cultural life of China and Fujian from the perspectives of agriculture, shipping, commerce, politics, law, education, folk customs, beliefs and clan families. This is an anthropological investigation of the local family history and the process of its community.
As for the different fates of the two families, the book mentions a widely circulated saying in China, that is, geomantic omen. In the tradition of China, the location of a family cemetery, the foundation of a house and so on have an absolute influence on this family. Even the title of this book comes from the idea that the newly-built homestead of the Huang family is just on the wings of the golden rooster, so the Huang family is called the Golden Wing House. Compared with the gradual decline of the Zhang family, the persistence of the Huang family business seems to be more evidence of the good feng shui of this land. Around this point, this paper compares the fate of Feng Shui with the initiative of human survival and enterprising, and the effect of controlling the local relationship system, trying to show the obvious advantages of modern sociological anthropology in explaining the changes of social and cultural systems. Indeed, when we connect with real life, it often happens that Mr. Feng Shui may have more excuses than doctors or lawyers. The time dimension is composed of social spatial processes that are difficult to predict and control. Fenzhou and Lindong, who once appreciated the great prophecy of Mr. Huang Cun Feng Shui, both experienced painful social changes. However, several generations of Lindong people have risen again. Mr. Huang Cun Feng Shui always said, "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi". China people's concept of Feng Shui permeates our consciousness, emotion, induction, thinking, desire, faith, belief, unconsciousness, intuition, practice and lifestyle. Heaven, Earth, Yin and Yang, and five lines of gossip's branches and branches can explain and predict natural and social phenomena, even personal good or bad luck. In "Golden Wings", when enemy planes roared overhead, the old man Lin Dong did not forget to tell his grandson, "Don't forget to bury the seeds in the soil!" "This is because rice seeds are actually planted by three generations of grandparents and grandchildren and can germinate at any time. The moral is nothing but that the decline of the family is only temporary and will eventually change, so we should wait calmly for the moment of family rejuvenation. Golden wings
In Interpersonal Relationship, Social Change and Family Rise and Fall, Professor Lin explained it with balance. The relationship between people is a process of constantly balancing-destroying the balance-restoring the original balance, or balancing-destroying the balance-establishing a new balance. The difference between the Huang family and the Zhang family stems from the different reactions to the destruction of the balance: the Huang family is strong in the face, and the Zhang family just escapes. So before the arrival of the next equilibrium state, the Zhang family had already declared bankruptcy. In addition, there is one point in the Huang family's response to a series of blows, which is exactly what the novel "Golden Wings" wants to elaborate, that is, the last sentence of the novel "Don't forget to bury the seeds in the soil". "The balance of human behavior is also composed of a network similar to this interpersonal relationship. Each point represents an individual, and the change of each individual is affected in this system, and vice versa. Human life swings between balance and imbalance. For example, the description of the litigation process of forest disputes leads to the interpretation of the local judicial system, and many details of tomb sacrifices and folk festivals are obviously different from the intentions of literary writers, because these deliberate descriptions ultimately boil down to the anthropological theme of how clan, house and family system work; In the store, the long-term absence of Fenzhou caused a chaotic situation. However, the adjusted Lindong promoted the new expansion of the store. It should be said that ordinary novels will also state their own process in this way, but the original intention of "Golden Wing" is to tell readers that the profitability of shops and the prosperity of families are not only complementary, but also to find the driving force for the community system to achieve a new balance from the old balance. Similarly, the national crisis triggered by the Japanese invasion at the end of the novel made Lin Dong return to the original point of life before doing business, sowing seeds in the fields with his grandchildren. The author is also explaining a truth of social anthropology that a huge external force can also destroy the balanced operation between the realized systems.
The Golden Wing interprets the culture and society that anthropology is good at through the statement of novel genre, and it is one of the few pioneering works of modern anthropological cultural expression practice. When I read that the community system is described in the form of novels, the answers to those anthropological questions melt in the process of community. Moreover, our readers have added a dimension that is convenient for others to experience and is conducive to understanding the essence of a community.