How many roads does a woman have to walk to become her own shore?
Qiao Jinye was born in Liuzhen, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and took his mother's surname. Her mother, Qiao Qiuyun, was admitted to a local normal university when she was young but was denied her admission notice. She went south to work, was deceived into marriage, and opened a bookstore alone to raise her. Mother said: "Your surname is Qiao, and you are the second generation of scholars in our Qiao family."
From Liuzhen to the provincial capital, from undercover reporters to independent writers, Qiao Jinye used a pen to record those people who have been submerged by the times - workers in black brick kilns, female workers on the assembly line, demolished households, and left-behind children. She published "Yuan" and established the "Qiuyun Student Aid Fund" to help hundreds of poor girls go to school.
But she was also the one who refused marriage. First love Lin Juefei died at the scene of the mining accident interview. His pursuer Jiang Shenyan tried to possess her in the name of love. Only photographer Lin Shen silently guarded her with thirty years of lens.
At the age of thirty-six, she did in vitro fertilization alone. When a daughter was born, she was given the surname Qiao and named Songan - singing peace and peace. She has two mothers: Qiao Jinye and her best friend Ye Huilan; she has an uncle: Lin Shen. She has known since she was a child that family can take many forms, and love is the only definition.
In the spring of the year when he was thirty-nine, Qiao Jinye returned to Liuzhen with three-year-old Song'an in his arms. The river is still flowing, but it is no longer what it used to be. She said to her daughter: "This is where mom comes from. But you don't have to start here, you can start anywhere."
One river, three generations of women, thirty-nine years. This is not the story of one person's struggle, but the story of all the women who lit their own lamps in the long night. The river is silent, but every drop has its own name.
