"The Backbone of the Mountain" takes Long Xiang's life as the main line, running through famine, poverty, childbirth, labor, separation, and aging, showing the survival resilience of a lower-class peasant family in the torrent of the times.
Living itself is meaning. Not for ideals, not fear of the world, not for happiness, just for "survival". In the face of the uncertainty of fate, Longxiang is always gentle, accepting everything calmly, accepting his fate but not despairing.
Longxiang is the center, Dafu is the support, and the six children each have their own destiny. Each character is a microcosm of the times. Their suffering is not accidental, but the norm of survival in that era.
