She married a Russian businessman and left Harbin. The counterrevolutionary movement took away her husband, the war took away her son, and the accident took away her daughter. She raised her granddaughter Ye Wan alone in a wooden house outside Moscow. The granddaughter's Russian name is the same as her Russian name - Ekaterina. She taught Ye Wan how to write her name in Chinese and told her that the snow in Harbin was drier and lighter. She didn't wait for the day to go back. Ye Wan carried the piece of paper with the Chinese name on it and went to Paris alone. But she didn't know that before her death, her grandmother hid an unsent letter. Recipient: Harbin.
Concept: A Harbin woman was taken to a foreign country by the times and lost her husband, son and daughter, but she did not lose the ability to pass on her mother tongue and memory. She taught her granddaughter to write her name in Chinese, and built an invisible hometown with the snow of Harbin - the roots were not given by the land, but were cultivated inch by inch by her own language and memory. When granddaughter Ye Wan walked to Paris alone with the piece of paper with the Chinese name written on it, her grandmother's roots were not broken. She changed her way and continued to live in this world.