Chapter 1

1.
The Struggle with Oneself 11
2.
The Sound of the River 14
3.
I'm used to being alone _8
4.
23 Things You Can't Let Go of
5.
The Lost Poison Thorn 31
6.
Only time remains in my empty heart 34
7.
I don't need memories 37
8.
The two characters 'Dingzi' 40

Chapter 2

9.
I'll take you home 45
10.
Cherenru? Or Sanzhitang? 50
11.
As far as I remember, it's red, 53
12.
I got hit in the head with a gun 57
13.
Abyss of Darkness 61

Chapter 3

14.
67 Hometown People I Met at a Noodle House
15.
All I can do now is live 73
16.
79 to the south

Chapter 4

17.
A surprised Qinglin 91
18.
The Secret Keeper 96
19.
Her soul is not in this world 100
20.
Old Leather Bag 103

Chapter 5

21.
Stairs in the Ashes 109
22.
No, that's not it! 112
23.
The First Hell: Howling in the River 115
24.
Second Hell: Boat 119 Swept Away in the Rapids
25.
The Third Hell: Running on a Mountain Path 125

Chapter 6

26.
Life is tiring even when you're not busy 133
27.
Baiyangba's Dasui Jing 138
28.
A Family's Story 145
29.
Wanzhou Grilled Fish 152
30.
Qinglin 162, who changed her mind in an instant
31.
Dust is just dust 166
32.
Cherenru? 172
33.
To correct a mistake, you have to cross the line. 179

Chapter 7

34.
The Fourth Hell: Beneath the Red Grass of the West Wall 191
35.
Fifth Hell: Flower Garden Burial Ground 197
36.
The Sixth Circle of Hell: The Last Supper 203
37.
The Seventh Circle of Hell: News from Someone 211

Chapter 8

38.
Why does the back look so familiar? 225
39.
Are you sure you saw his father? 234
40.
So this is how one person's life ends 243

Chapter 9

41.
The Eighth Circle of Hell: Let Me Die! 249
42.
The Ninth Hell: What's the Meaning of Life? 252
43.
Tenth Hell: Where Are You, Oppa? 258

Chapter 10

44.
Qinglin 265, who started reading the diary
45.
Your father is Dong? 269
46.
Life Begins Again 278
47.
Anonymous 293
48.
Chinglin 300, who was startled to death
49.
Ding Zitao as wife 306
50.
Speculation and Questions 315

Chapter 11

51.
Eleventh Hell: I Need to Find My Brother 321
52.
The Twelfth Circle of Hell: Urgent Action 326
53.
The Thirteenth Hell: Everything Turns to Ashes 329
54.
Fourteenth Hell: Mom and Dad Only Trust You 334
55.
Fifteenth Circle of Hell: Say You're a Lucy 340

Chapter 12

56.
Oh my goodness, Aunt Ding is your mother? 345
57.
Hearing is maid 354
58.
358 beautifully raised eaves
59.
Yeonmaejang 370
60.
Sanzhi Tang 374
61.
Crazy Old Man 381
62.
How should I describe those days? 389

Chapter 13

63.
Sixteenth Circle of Hell: Warranty 405
64.
Seventeenth Circle of Hell: Peony Quilt 410
65.
The Eighteenth Circle of Hell: The Gates of Hell 415

Chapter 14

66.
Secret Underground Passage 425
67.
The Day Covered by the Sky 430
68.
I don't want to be buried in a cemetery 432
69.
Sorrow from the Bones 434
Epilogue 70.
Some choose oblivion, others choose recording. 441

Author's Note 445
Editor's Note 453

In the midst of the tragedy of history that came rushing in like a sandstorm
The survival strategy of concealment and oblivion chosen by people: the "smoke burial ground."

'Yeonmaejang' refers to a form of burial where the body is buried directly in the ground without a coffin after death. It is said that this was the method chosen by people who held grudges and did not want to be reincarnated.
The silence and oblivion that people who had their lives destroyed by the land reform at the time chose to forget their pain can also be said to be a social burial ground.
Fang Fang learned the word "Yeonmaejang" from the mother of a friend who had fled during the land reform in Sichuan, and wrote the novel "Yeonmaejang" centered around this word.

A burial is when a person is buried directly in the ground without the protection of a coffin after death.
And when a living person decisively cuts off the past, seals it away or throws it away, consciously or unconsciously rejecting memories, this is also being buried in time.
Once buried, no one will ever know, not even for generations.

(...) So what I could do was very simple.
I wrote down honestly what I knew, what I felt, my doubts and my pain.
It was enough to just express my complex story and feelings in writing as a kind of record.
(From the Author's Note)

Ding Zitao, a woman who has lost her memory, seems to be blocked by something and cannot recall a single thing about her past.
She was found floating down the river covered in wounds, and was treated by Dr. Wu Zi-ming. Based on this connection, the two got married and had a son, Qinglin.
Chinglin, who grew up in a simple, poor, but honest family, becomes the branch manager of a company.
After her father, Wu Ziming, passes away in a car accident, Qinglin decides to take care of her mother and takes her to the mansion.
He treated her to good food and drinks, telling her that her hardships were over and that she should just enjoy happiness. As Ding Zitao was about to enjoy some leisure time, fragments of faint memories began to appear before her eyes.
However, just before he can fully recall the past, Ding Zitao loses consciousness, and Qinglin begins to dig into the secret, holding on to the unknown word 'Yeonmaejang' left behind by his mother.
Finally, Qinglin learns that her mother, Ding Zitao, had lived a comfortable life as a landowner, but that her property had been confiscated and her entire family had been killed during the land reform, and that her father had also taken advantage of the war to flee to the mountains and live under a false identity, hiding his past as a landowner throughout his life.
Realizing that his father's concealment and his mother's oblivion were their only means of survival, Chinglin vows never to bring this matter to light again.

In a life that seems peaceful and ordinary
We live by choosing between forgetting and recording.

『The Graveyard』 progresses through the perspectives of several characters.
The story deals with the incident in which a family was wiped out due to land reform, with the perspectives of Ding Zitao, a party to the incident, Qinglin, who later evaluated the incident, and Liu Jinyuan, who actively intervened in the reform, appearing alternately.
As you read along the story, you will feel sorrow from the perspective of Ding Zitao, the person involved in the incident, and you will also sympathize with Qinglin's feelings and agree with her decision to protect her parents, who were victims, from public attention.
However, Pangpang questions whether this incident can be concluded as a simple tragedy.

“In fact, there is no such thing as defining oneself.
There are so many choices in life.
Some people choose a good death, some people choose a miserable life.
Some people choose to remember everything, while others choose to forget.
There is no such thing as a 100% right choice, only the choice that is right for you.
So don't think too much.
“You can do whatever you feel comfortable with.” (p. 431)

Through the lines of Qinglin's friend Long Zhongyong, Fangfang says that it is a personal choice to bury historical events or to record them and pass them on to future generations and remember them.
She does not condemn Qinglin's choice as cowardly.
As a witness, he chose to leave behind a literary testimony, and he reveals at the end of the work that the writing is not the absolute truth, but merely an effort to get closer to it.

Yes, I chose oblivion and you chose recording.
But since you're recording it, how could I forget? And the truth is, Qinglin sneered, how can truth be expressed in words and writing? Nothing in the world can truly be true.
(444p)

Even if we experience the same event at the same time, the experience is individual.
The reason why people's statements about an incident vary so much is probably because experiences are not unified.
We each look at different truths, bear different scars, and live according to our own choices.
Fortunately, oblivion and concealment are not always the best option, and vivid records left here and there, like in 『The Burial Ground』, serve as gateways to the truth.