Eighty-Year-Old Embroiderer: Refusing to Support Her Younger Brother, She Leads the Village to Engage in Intangible Cultural Heritage

[Urban imagination, rebirth, period literature, intangible inheritance, strong female characters, rural entrepreneurship, counterattack in the face] Shen Xiuyi was reborn on her wedding day in 1984. In her previous life, she was sold by her grandmother to a fool in a neighboring village. The bride price bought her brother a bicycle and a job quota. She spent her whole life in poverty and labor. After she was reborn, she broke off her engagement in public, and with her superb embroidery skills, she embroidered a stunning piece of work in a dilapidated earthen house. She refused to support her younger brother, cut off her family ties, and became independent. She started by setting up a street stall to sell embroidery products, and gradually established embroidery workshops and factories, turning the local specialties of her hometown into expensive intangible cultural heritage works of art. Faced with the entanglement of her family, the pressure of her peers, and the hunting of capital, she used the needle as a sword to embroider a prosperous age and a glorious life of her own.