Lin Wenxuan, a graduate student in the Department of History, traveled to the south of the Yangtze River during the three years of Hongwu. He became a poor and sick boy. He and his widowed mother relied on modern knowledge to forage for wild vegetables and use river mud to fertilize their fields. They survived and took root in the troubled times of the harsh government. They used wisdom to find hope in the desperate situation of the early Ming Dynasty and wrote a legend of survival and growth.
