"Jujube Blossoms in Barren Years"
In 1960, an unprecedented famine engulfed Zaohua's family on the banks of Hongze Lake in northern Jiangsu. His father starved to death while fleeing the desert, and his mother sold her to a stranger in exchange for half a bag of sorghum, then threw herself into a lake and committed suicide. Twelve-year-old Zaohua changed hands three times, and finally ended up in the home of fisherman Wang Dapao whose wife died, becoming the rough man's nominal "daughter". There is no blood relationship, only a mouth to feed and a pair of eyes that refuse to accept fate. From chewing tree bark, digging Guanyin soil, to secretly learning Chinese characters, and going to the lake to catch fish in the middle of the night, she grew bones little by little among the dead. When the famine subsided, she was unwilling to just do "survival"
"People"--she wants to fight for land, power, and one person who will make the whole village feel inferior.
Head position. This is not a tender story about a loving father and a filial son, but a hard-working legend about a woman stepping on the bones of barren years and blooming flowers from the soil.
