“They said, ‘You're meant to be famous.’
I said, ‘I'm meant to go home.’”
In front of the livestream camera, she's the “country fairy” adored across the internet. Behind it, all she has left is the last bolt of summer cloth her grandmother left her.
Lin Wanzhou tears up the script that defined her public image, loses a million yuan in breach-of-contract fees, and drags her loom back to her dilapidated old home.
From silkworms spinning their spring cocoons to winter snow filled with poetry, from every stitch and thread to sharing her culture with the world:
She brings a thousand-year-old tradition of summer cloth back to life, only to attract predatory investors, trademark squatters, and a campaign of online smears...
While everyone else chases fame and fortune, she chooses to put down quiet roots.
When intangible cultural heritage becomes a toy for chasing traffic, she wears it for the rest of her life.
This is a story of returning home, staying true, and putting down roots.
Here you'll find the healing passage of the seasons, the wonder of sharing a culture with the world, the undercurrents of corporate power games, and the warmth of a life rooted in the soil.
If you have ever:
- Longed for authenticity beneath the mask you wear in the city
- Searched for a slower life in a fast-paced age
- Wanted to protect something amid the loss of culture
- Been deeply moved by Li Ziqi's “pastoral spirit”
Then open this book.
Dedicated to everyone who chooses to put down quiet roots in a noisy age.
