In the last century, in the 1960s and 1970s, how did people live in the southwest minority areas? How do commune members live in poverty? How did the old man hunt and set traps? How to light a fire with flint? Why do you have to go out at two or three in the middle of the night to go to the market? What are the specialties for selling wood-woven straw sandals? How to escape when encountering ferocious beasts in the mountains and forests? How did the Yi people practice slash-and-burn farming? Why are the Yi people accustomed to burning bonfires in the mountains to spend the night? How many innocent people have been killed by family feuds? What's going on with the fingertips of a baby who holds a child while he's in elementary school? These magical experiences and anecdotes are something that modern people have never seen or heard of. That's totally an old story. Those stories seem even further away than Tang poetry and Song poetry. It's as if it never existed at all. In this book, I can tell you how the poor mountain people in the deep mountains lived in the past.