A Woman Born in the Year of the Sheep

Women Born in the Year of the Goat

There seems to be an old saying in China about women born in the Year of the Goat: they are doomed to a hard life and bring misfortune to their husbands. It is also said that Goat women born in a Jia year are especially unlucky.

The heroine, Lan Yun, was born in the Year of the Goat and was a Manchu princess. She lived through the sweeping tides of history, from the Qing dynasty through the Republican era and into the founding of New China. She weathered countless storms and tasted the bitterness of falling from the clouds into the dust.

Yet with unyielding perseverance and a sharp mind, she fought fate with all her might. Her kindness and gentleness earned the respect and affection of those around her, and brought her help and support in her darkest moments.

In the end, she broke the old society’s prejudice and curse against women born in the Year of the Goat, transforming herself into an exemplary new woman of New China and achieving a legendary rebirth like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

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