When the "Year of Severe Drought" comes, the bare ground is thousands of miles away, and even the roots of grass and bark become a luxury, and despair opens the mouth of a dark hole. The disease extends its sharp claws to the young spring grass again. For the sake of his sister who was dying of high fever, Fulgan ran in the dead cold night, breaking open the closed doors one after another, and grasping a ray of hope that was thinner than a spider web. A bowl of "bitter medicinal soup" hidden deep under the wall, mixed with earth and a glimmer of humanity, became his final bargaining chip in his struggle with death.
This is not a story about grand history, but a tragic song of survival wandering in the loess ravines. It tells how Fulgen used his backbone to hold up a crumbling sky for the spring grass he picked up for his younger sister in the midst of endless suffering; it tells how two lives as humble as dust, clinging to each other like weeds in the cracks of rocks amid the siege of hunger, disease and death, resisted the chaos of the times and the twists and turns of fate with the most primitive and tenacious "living" itself. In their stories, there is a bone-chilling cold, but also the warmth of dependence; there are tears of despair, and there are roots that are deeply rooted in the loess and refuse to be broken.
1. Background: Era of extreme suffering (famine, drought)
2. Protagonist: Orphan Fulgen + picked up baby girl Spring Grass
3. Theme: Tenacity to survive in suffering, the weight of non-blood relatives, the tenacity of life in desperate situations
4. Style and tone: deep, simple, full of emotion but not sensational, emphasizing the heaviness and power of "living" itself
5. Emotional core: Find and protect the glimmer of humanity and the warmth of life in the boundless darkness
Purpose: Life itself is as tough and indestructible as weeds