This novel is based on the song festival of Baili Dong Township. It tells the story of the Dong girl Chu Chu and the young man A Ming's true love story across mountains and seas.
At the Early Spring Song Festival, Chu Chu, who is famous for his singing, and A Ming, who calls himself "not good at singing," unexpectedly formed a perfect harmony. A ribbon embroidered with parallel lotus tied their hearts to each other. Under the camphor tree on a moonlit night, he presented him with a hand-carved paulownia comb, and she returned the gift with colorful brocade that took half a year to weave, and agreed to build a drum tower full of ancient songs together.
Parting followed, and A Ming went away to study carpentry, while Chu Chu stayed in his hometown to wait. Tests in a foreign land came one after another: he was ostracized in a foreign workshop, encountered a flash flood and blocked his return, and narrowly escaped death; she was blinded trying to raise money for medicine, and faced with the forced marriage of the leader's son and widespread rumors, she still recorded her wait with the carvings on the camphor tree. In the darkness, he traveled all over Xuefeng Mountain to find bright grass to cure her eye disease, and she worked with him to carve the toughness of wood into the tenderness of silver jewelry, using her hands to create a promise that was heavier than silver.
In the end, with the blessings of the whole village, the lovers who had gone through many twists and turns sang a wedding song duet in front of the Drum Tower, fulfilling their original agreement with a wedding that combined the Dong tradition and the two people's ingenuity. Their love is as closely interdependent as the wooden tenons of the Wind and Rain Bridge, as profound and timeless as the carvings on the old camphor tree, and in their vow to inherit the national craftsmanship, this persistence and deep love can last forever.
