A Life of Hardship

...Born into hardship, living on in hardship... An endless sorrow, a hardship that defies words. See the suffering of all humanity through the Yang family... On that vast, boundless stretch of yellow earth, the sun hung high overhead, scorching the land. Old Yang hunched over, gripping his hoe as he hacked again and again at the hard ground. Sweat streamed down his deeply furrowed face and fell onto the parched earth, vanishing without a trace in an instant.