When Shi Nianhe was sixteen, his mother remarried to Rongcheng.
She came to this southern city from Qinghe Village in western Hunan where she could not understand Cantonese. On the first day when she transferred to another high school, no one in the class understood her Xiangpu - only one boy raised his hand: "Teacher, there is an empty seat next to me."
Chen Yuxiu is the monitor of the liberal arts class, and his grandfather is one of the earliest restorers of cultural relics in Lingnan. He noticed the star anise flower on her schoolbag: "My grandfather went to Qinghe Village when he was young. He told me that the star anise flower is the soul of the Miao girl."
That was the first sentence related to "Xiangxi" that she heard in Rongcheng.
Later, they repaired a silver bracelet together and handed a note under the banyan tree after evening study hall - "I guess I will go wherever you go in the exam."
Later they lost contact for ten years.
When we met again, she was a cultural relic restorer at Chang'an Museum, and he was the technical leader of the digitization project. Across a conference table, outside the window is the Yangui Tower.
The first thing he said was: "Long time no see."
She had thought that she was a stranger breaking into his world.
Only later did he discover that her Qinghe Village had long been the Lingnan in his heart.
Concept: the integration of traditional restoration and digital technology. The octagonal flower has been handed down from three thousand years ago. It was brought to Lingnan by a girl from Xiangxi and was permanently preserved by a young man who wrote code using an algorithm. There is never only one way to inherit culture.