I grew up in the countryside and have hardly ever left this rural “home.” This home encompasses hundreds and thousands of households, each with its own needs for food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
Families come together to form clans, and their ways of raising children are passed down from generation to generation. These include family teachings, rules, and the good family traditions of today. They shape and influence the next generation, helping children learn proper conduct. With the support of their schools, they grow into students who excel both academically and morally. In this environment, relationships between elders and youngsters, sisters-in-law, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, and parents and children are especially harmonious, helping family life progress.
Over the past decade or so, every part of society has changed rapidly. The breakneck pace of life has transformed family after family. Young men face the practical demands of a wife, a home, children, a car, and money. They have no choice but to break with convention and find their own way. They rack their brains to earn an extra penny; they run here and there to earn an extra penny; and they endure hardships few others could bear to buy a home. Yet they keep striving for the sake of their family. In the end, they become extraordinarily resilient, turning into the “heroes” of their households...
