In the flames of purgatory, there once was a blue bird flying across the Nu River, carrying a boy's unsent love poem in its mouth.
After the fall of western Yunnan in 1942, 12-year-old Kunming eldest daughter Shen Shuying fled to Songshan with her father. Here, she met Lin Ye, a silent Yi boy in the mountains and forests - he knew the temperament of every herbal medicine, but could not read the "Guan Guan Ju Jiu" in the Han poetry books.
She disliked his roughness, and he alienated her from being delicate.
Until the war spread to the other side of the Nu River, Songshan became a millstone of flesh and blood.
Fourteen-year-old Lin Ye clenched his hunting knife, took the military wooden sign, and joined a special "boy communication team." On the eve of the expedition, he placed a pair of wood-carved bluebirds in her hands: "Grandma said that bluebirds can fly over the highest mountains and find the person they want to see."
During the 120 days of the Battle of Songshan, the young men shuttled through the hail of bullets with their immature bodies.
She guarded the herbal map they drew and rescued the bloody bodies from behind.
He wrote the final message with charcoal deep in the tunnel, and drew a bird with spread wings at the signature.
On the day the war ended, the blue bird did not return.
There are only weeping pines in the mountains, and a promise that a girl will spend her whole life fulfilling——
Watch the train for him through the mountains and ridges, teach him how to read, and carve the most painful memory of a nation into the stone tablets and bloodlines for him.
The blue bird sank into the long river of history, while the wind in the pine mountains and valleys echoed his name year after year.
Purpose: Anti-Japanese War and Feelings of Home and Country