Chaiwu is a profession that was created in a certain place at a certain time in history to imprison women in disguise. Their main duty is to help others take care of children, but the condition is that they cannot have children and must be married. Therefore, most of the women who work as Chaiwu are young widows.
Ma Shihua is an exception. She accidentally came into contact with new ideas and yearned for a new world where men were not oppressed. She broke off her parents' marriage by running away from home, but she chose to live as a follower in order to survive.
The article follows the perspective of an ordinary rural woman before and after the Liberation War, describing the impact of new ideas on the lives and psychology of ordinary people during the establishment of the new regime.
Purpose: Rural women choose a new life under the impact of new ideas and endure the pain of reform