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Wild Grass Grows Toward the Light
A Yi girl named A Yi Mu carries the hopes of her entire village as she leaves the Daliang Mountains with an ancient piece of embroidery. In Shanghai, she faces hardship at the bottom of society, culture shock, and even the devastating blow of having her designs plagiarized. With nowhere else to turn, she chooses to return to her hometown, organizing the scattered embroiderers into a cooperative and breathing new life into a craft on the verge of being lost. Drawing on her profound understanding
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Longevity Lock: See You Often Every Year
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan army suppressed the territory. Zhou Yanshu, the son of a silversmith in the south of the Yangtze River, and Song Guan'er, an orphan girl from the embroidery workshop, locked their love with a silver longevity coin engraved with "See each other every year". In order to preserve the livelihood of his family and Guan'er in troubled times, Zhou Yanshu was forced to marry the daughter of the general who defended the city. On the day of the wedding, th
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