This is a story about the fate of women. Through Qiu Hongxing's growth, it shows her journey from ignorance to awakening, and finally breaks away from the shackles of tradition and takes control of her own life. The story depicts her repression in a patriarchal family, her observation of the fate of her sisters, and her thoughts on marriage and independence after going to the city to struggle, and presents the awakening and struggle of female consciousness.
Purpose: This story, through the fate of four generations of women of the Qiu family, profoundly reveals the survival dilemma of women being objectified and disciplined in a closed rural society. Its core purpose is to celebrate the awakening of female consciousness represented by Qiu Hongxing - she went from passive acceptance to active thinking, and finally broke away from the generational cycle of "wife to mother" through running away and struggling, realizing the establishment of subjectivity from "other" to "self", and declaring that women have the ultimate power to define their own value.