Give Birth to All Things

In 1927, Xiuxiu, the eldest daughter of Ning Xuexiu, the richest man in Tianniumiao Village, Yimeng Mountain District, was about to get married. She was suddenly kidnapped by bandits and demanded a huge ransom. Her father was reluctant to sell his land in exchange for a daughter, so he let his second daughter marry on his elder sister's behalf. Unexpectedly, Xiu Xiu escaped from the mountain. Out of helplessness, she married a disabled young man named Feng Daji. From then on, she performed another life full of tears and blood but as tough as grass. The love and hatred between men and women in mountain villages, the love and hatred caused by the land, run through four generations for sixty or seventy years. "All things born in the soil have a long history, and the earth has carried the ethics of the people since ancient times." The author uses the land changes in the past hundred years as the background to show the difficult process of farmers' survival and development. The people of the Tianniu Temple in Yimeng Mountain tie their lives, love, and hopes to a land filled with blood and sweat. The various hardships and joys they have experienced in social changes have made this land extraordinarily rich and fertile...