During the turbulent times of the Warring States Period, Qin's iron hoof traveled all over the princes, and there was a poor thatched cottage hidden in the countryside of Qi. It was here that Wang Zhaojun, who would become famous all over the world, was born.
With popular and warm writing, this book unfolds Zhaojun's rural years from 278 BC to 260 BC - from the babbling ignorance of an infant to the overnight growth after the death of his loving mother; from the hard reading and literacy under the old locust tree in the humble house, to the novice red girl twisting thread under the lamp; from the early appearance of the cardamom years, to the gradual reveal of his gentle character and talent.
There is no such thing as a natural beauty, only an ordinary girl who is protected by her father and brother and warmly loved by her neighbors in troubled times. She keeps her true heart in poverty and develops her character in suffering. Her fingertips have the warmth of needle and thread, her eyes have the clarity of scholarship, and her bones have the tenacity of country children.
Fireworks in the countryside hide warmth, and rumors of troubled times lurk. This volume describes her purity and freshness before entering the palace, the growth and perseverance of a girl from a poor family, and also quietly lays the foreshadowing of her fate - when her beautiful appearance meets the torrent of troubled times, this girl who walked out of the hut in Qidi will eventually lose her rural childishness, shoulder the mission of crossing mountains and rivers, and write a legend that will last for thousands of years.
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