The Purang Oath

携爱再漂流Guangxi Normal University Press2008

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310.6K words
ISBN
9787563374526

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Summary

Twenty-nine-year-old Yun Xiangyi is a typical urban white-collar worker: her career is respectable and her life independent, yet she has long refused to fall in love. She does not believe any oath in the world still holds, and so she has cut herself off from love. At a blind date, a man named Nuo Canghai mentions Tibet, Ngari, and Purang, speaks of an ancient oath, and gives her a bunch of blue forget-me-nots (Chinese hound's tongue). The words are like a key, pushing her onto a journey to Tibet. The story unfolds along two interwoven narrative lines. One is the present-day Yun Xiangyi, traveling west along the Peacock River, Lake Rakshastal, Lake Yamdrok, and the Karola Glacier; amid the butter lamps and the sound of prayer wheels at the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple, she hears a lama tell the legend of the flower of the other shore and the water of forgetfulness; and at the ruins of Darlak Mountain in Purang, the sacred Mount Kailash, and the holy Lake Manasarovar, memories not of this life are gradually awakened in her. The other line returns to the ancient kingdom of Zhangzhung a thousand years earlier: Yun Zhuo of the Xiwei tribe loses both parents in a dramatic family upheaval, is forced to change her name to "Daila" and hide by Nuo Sang's side, struggling between hatred and attachment. The red full moon, the blue hound's tongue flowers, the snow leopard transformed by a curse, and the memory-erasing water of forgetfulness run through both times and spaces. In a "Beauty and the Beast"-style romantic mode, the novel tells of a covenant of reincarnation spanning a thousand years, and of how a modern woman relearns trust and love in a land of faith.

Editor's review

这本《普兰誓言》是首届华语言情小说大赛的获奖出版物之一，由红袖添香连载起家，作者携爱再漂流（宋丽晅）后来还写过《不认输！赫连娜职场蜕变计》《办公室风声》等作品。与很多只借西藏当背景板的言情不同，她把布达拉宫、大昭寺、羊卓雍湖、卡若拉冰川、冈仁波齐与玛旁雍错一地一地写过去，转经、朝圣、天葬、苯教与佛教的细节都在，读起来像跟着主角走了一趟阿里。双线叙事是全书的关键技术：现代都市女性云想依的西藏之行，与象雄古国云卓、诺桑的旧事交替推进，红色圆月、蓝色琉璃草、雪豹、忘情水几件意象反复出现，把“誓言到底算不算数”这个主题一层层收拢。对喜欢前世今生、浪漫幻想，又爱看旅行见闻的读者，这是一本情绪扎实、风景饱满的书；行文带一点早年的言情腔调，追求冷峻文学笔法的读者需自行调节期待。

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  1. 可先读楔子与彼岸之花两段，熟悉双线节奏再进入古国部分。
  2. 配上西藏地图或旅行照片对照阅读，地名与湖山会更有实感。
  3. 留意琉璃草、雪豹、圆月、忘情水四组意象的前后呼应。
  4. 不必追求一次读通两段时间线，看到交汇处再回头重读更清楚。

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Guangxi Normal University Press China · Founded in 1986

Guangxi Normal University Press is a publisher known for literature, foreign literature and history titles. Its 1,175 books in the database show a solid accumulation in classics and prose collections, including foreign literary works such as Les Fleurs du mal: Annotated Poems of Baudelaire, Snow Country, Dubliners and The Wild Palms, as well as modern prose compilations like The Complete Prose of Zhou Zuoren. History and philosophy also hold a notable share, with titles such as Running Dogs: Clerks and Runners in Qing County Yamen and The History and Thought of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom reflecting attention to Qing local administration and modern history. In art literature there is the 16-volume Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Manual. Its author resources include foreign writers Charles Baudelaire and Yasunari Kawabata, translators and annotators Liu Nanqi and Zou Bo, and scholars such as Zhong Shuhe, Bradly W. Reed and You Chenjun. As public information is limited, this characterization is based only on the books in the database, which together present a profile balancing Chinese and foreign literary classics with academic works in the humanities and social sciences.

FAQ

《普兰誓言》的作者是谁？是网名还是真名？ 作者网名携爱再漂流，本名宋丽晅，70后，祖籍北京。她2008年起在红袖读书连载《普兰誓言》等长篇，2021年获茅盾新人奖网络文学奖提名。
这本书是穿越小说还是前世今生故事？ 更接近前世今生加双线叙事：现代都市女性云想依去西藏旅行，另一条线是象雄古国时期云卓与诺桑的旧事，两段时间线交替推进，并非单线穿越。
书中提到哪些西藏地点？ 据百科与试读片段，涉及布达拉宫、大昭寺、羊卓雍湖、卡若拉冰川、孔雀河、拉昂错，以及普兰的达拉喀山遗址、冈仁波齐神山和玛旁雍错圣湖。
网络版和出版版内容一样吗？ 网络连载约三十一万字、已完结，2008年由广西师范大学出版社出版，页数二百八十一页。出版版通常会作校订，具体章节差异未见权威对照，建议以实体书为准。

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About the author

携爱再漂流 Author

Xie'ai Zai Piaoliu is a romance author active in the field of Chinese online literature. Publicly available information is limited, and details such as nationality, dates of birth and death, and real identity cannot currently be confirmed. Two of the author's works are included in the catalog, with the representative title That Touch of Starlight That Belongs to Me; another edition is titled That Touch of Starlight That Belongs to Me (the original novel of the same-name TV adaptation starring Xu Haiqiao and Meng Ziyi), indicating that the work was adapted into a television drama of the same name starring Xu Haiqiao and Meng Ziyi. The author's works are commonly categorized as youth literature and contemporary romance, with subjects often centered on urban relationships and youthful growth. The writing tends toward delicate, lyrical expression and places emphasis on developing emotional relationships between characters. Based on the available material, the author has produced only a small number of works, yet the fact that one has been adapted for television suggests a certain readership base and market attention within this genre.