The TV series《this thriving land》is adapted from the novel《Longing and Determination》.

Lingering and Determination is one of Zhao Defa's Peasant Trilogy and his masterpiece.Zhao Defa's book - Lingering and Determination - takes the changes in the land as the background and shows the difficult process of farmers' survival and development.

《Tenderness and Determination》Written from 1927, Xiuxiu, the eldest daughter of Ning Xuexiang, the richest man in Tianniumiao Village, Yimeng Mountain District, was about to get married, but was suddenly kidnapped by bandits and demanded a huge ransom. Her father wasBaoshang's local party ignored it and let the second daughter marry on behalf of her elder sister.Unexpectedly, Xiuxiu escaped from the mountain on the third day, and out of desperation married a disabled young man named Feng Daji... The love and hatred between men and women in the mountain village, and the love and hatred caused by the land, ran through four generations for sixty or seventy years...…

Introduction to the novel:

Land is the life and root of farmers.For thousands of years, in this land of life and roots, Chinese farmers have sown their hopes and sustenance, and cultivated their dreams and reality.In the history of literature, writers have erected monuments to them, describing the hardships and joys that generations of farmers have experienced in the changes in society.However, the drastic changes that have occurred in China in this century, with land gathering and dispersing, have extended farmers' footprints on the land far and wide... This novel takes the changes in the land as the background and shows how farmers strive for survival and struggle.The difficult process of development.

The novel was written in 1927. Xiu Xiu, the eldest daughter of the richest man in Tianniumiao Village in Yimeng Mountain, was about to get married. She was suddenly kidnapped by bandits and demanded a huge ransom. However, her father ignored her in order to protect the land.Let the second daughter marry on behalf of her elder sister.Unexpectedly, Xiuxiu escaped from the mountain on the third day, and out of desperation married a disabled young man named Feng Daji... The love and hatred between men and women in the mountain village, and the love and hatred caused by the land, ran through four generations for sixty or seventy years...…

The plot of the novel is full of ups and downs, making people tear up; the characters have distinct personalities and are lifelike; when the book is closed, it makes people sigh and make people think deeply and far away.It is the first part of the Peasant Trilogy.