(No time travel, no rebirth, purely indigenous chronicle, the changes of the times in southern Fujian in the past seventy years)
The first in the county to be admitted to university, he tore up his admission notice in front of his ancestral home.
Everyone called him stupid.
Sixty years later, from the proud son of heaven, he sank into the earth.
He helped fishermen get credit, wrote family letters for overseas Chinese, hid Nanmusic instruments, and donated his ancestral home to build a fishing port.
It became the backing of the fishing village.
Some say he gave up on a better future.
But when the seventy-seven-year-old man stood on the breakwater, looking at the brightly lit fishing port——
He gave up the distance, but lived as a beacon to thousands of people.
[Epic of southern Fujian] [Kapok blossoms] [Nanyin curls] [A lifetime in noodle paste]
