Chen Huansheng, a middle-aged farmer, enjoys the nickname "Funnel Householder" because of his perennial poverty and heavy debts. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the rural policy was relaxed and his life became better. He has rice in the shop, clothes in the cupboard, meat on his body and a smile on his face. He also started a small business-selling oil ropes in the city and earning some pocket money to buy a new warm hat.

Hard-working and honest Chen Shousheng decided to buy a hat after the oil rope was sold out. As a result, the oil rope was sold out. Full of joy, he caught a cold because he didn't wear a hat, and his legs were weak and he was lying in the waiting room of the station. Wu Shuji, the county party secretary who had been waiting in their village, found him in time and kindly arranged for him to live in the county guest house.

The next day, Chen Huansheng, flattered, was careful in the room for fear of breaking something. However, when he heard at the cashier that it would cost five yuan to sleep for only one night, he was shocked and then angrily "destroyed" the room. However, after returning to the village, his position in the village suddenly improved because he had been in the car of the county party secretary and stayed in a hostel for five yuan a night.

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Chen Huansheng Entering the City is a short story by Gao Xiaosheng, published in People's Literature, No.2 1980. Won the National Excellent Short Story Award 1980. 198 1 was included in the novel collection of the same name published by Gansu People's Publishing House.

Through the protagonist Chen Huansheng's experience of selling oil ropes, buying hats and staying in guest houses in the city and his subtle psychological changes, the novel writes the mental state of farmers with heavy historical burdens when they enter the threshold of new era reform.

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