Light Dance of the Long Huai River

The novel depicts three generations of the Yu family: Yu Wanjin, Yu Huaihai, and Yu Chuanqi, from the late 1920s to nearly a century later, including the reform and opening up period and the new era, recording the development, inheritance, and innovation of the Huaihe Flower Drum Lantern. The story begins with the murder of a father and the seizure of a wife between the Yu family and the Huang family of bandits, which seems to be the driving force of their careers, prolonging the hatred between the two families. But inadvertently, with the development and changes of society, the cycle of good and evil in human nature, the Huaihe Flower Drum Lantern genes shared by the local people, finally became a bridge to resolve the age-old hatred between the two families. The descendants of the Huang bandit family seized the opportunity of development and turned the disaster-stricken Jiuli River into a national 5A scenic area. Under the promotion of the concept of culture + tourism in the new era, the Huaihe Flower Drum Lantern appeared in the private tourist area founded by the descendants of the Huang family, becoming a major highlight of local tourism, and cultural tourism has made rural revitalization shine, and the pockets of local farmers have also become fuller. By showing the panoramic view of the family history, struggle history, and development history of the Yu and Huang families for nearly a century, this novel not only exposes the natural disasters caused by the Huaihe River, but also presents the complex love and hate of the protagonists. The work recreates the arduous journey and brilliance of the Huaihe Flower Drum Lantern, and it is worthy of being a cultural epic with strong characteristics of the Huaihe region.