There should be three elegies in China today. The first is the elegy of farmers in China since the Agrarian Revolution. The second part is the elegy of China's cultural heritage since the May 4th Movement. The third part is the elegy of China civil society since 1840. What Han Chuanzi tried to write in his new work Four Poplars is a sad song of China farmers and their rural life since 1949, which is the voice of a writer's conscience.

—— Hong Qian, Chief Commentator of Phoenix Network

In Han Chuanzi's works, farmers are weak, but not mentally retarded. They live for dignity. They have not experienced the journey to the East, nor have they gone to the West. They just took root in the village, starved to death and died of poverty. Today, when migrant workers almost replace farmers, this book reaffirms the fate relationship between land and farmers, which is unique and intriguing.

-Gao Yuanbao, Ph.D., Chinese Department, Fudan University

From the perspective of post-revolutionary local narrative, Four Poplars restored China's original vision and language, and reconstructed China's original ideology. The author devotes himself to describing the drastic changes brought about by institutional changes in rural areas of China, profoundly portrays the soul of rural areas in China with the brush strokes of cultural criticism, and shows the highest level that critical realism novels can reach.

—— Ge Hongbing, Doctoral Supervisor, School of Literature, Shanghai University

In popular and lively language, Han Chuanzi stated the peasants' exploration and confusion about the socialist road in the Central Plains, eulogized their persistence and protection of cultural heritage under dictatorship, and at the same time launched a paradox: in the process of ruthlessly destroying the old rural culture, the new social buildings firmly bound the villagers to the rural well soil with strict household registration system, and the rural well soil was the soil that bred the old culture.

-Writer and screenwriter Liu Jianwei

This is the greatest work I have encountered in my seven-year publishing career, which can be called Ordinary World and White Deer Plain. I will try my best to make this book published and let more people know.

In this 800,000-word magnum opus, Han Chuanzi, the son of Henan, with his calm brushwork, methodically unfolded the life picture of rural Henan in the 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, depicting a group of humiliating, hardworking and simple Henan people.

—— Publisher Lu Jinbo