Li Qing's memory began with the moonlight leaking through the gap in the wardrobe. In the adobe house in the late 1990s, she huddled on a pile of straw, listening to her mother walking through the night, her blue cloth coat stained with smoke from fireworks, humming tiny nursery rhymes in the darkness. She didn't understand at that time that her father once walked to the neighboring village carrying brown sugar eggs, but when he heard her kitten-like cry, he turned around and ran away and lost one of his shoes.
The wind from the Taihang Mountains blew up the four children. The eldest sister fell down in a pickle vat, and the second sister brought back the tune of "The East Is Red" and sang it to her father's eyes. Li Qing clutched the sheep shuttlecock that he had counted in the dark, and looked at the red silk cloth hung up by his father on the day his younger brother was born, like a flower that would never wither.
Later, she lay on the kang table writing the word "", watching the watermelon sweet water splashed on the homework book by her father, and smelling the fragrance of corn that filled the summer. Later, when she stepped on the bluestone of the university and looked back, she saw clearly the tenderness in the folds of the years: the moonlight in the closet, the fatigue in the brick kiln, and the answer hidden in the growth rings of the peach tree - how the four children grew up in their own way in the wind and snow of the times.
When the wind blew, peach blossoms fell all over the ground, just like what my mother said about the flying locust trees in May of 1976.
Purpose: To show this ordinary family's struggle to persevere in the changing times from Li Qing's perspective. It not only shows the tenacity of family ties and the survival power of ordinary people, but also shows the growth of women who break through the constraints of traditional concepts and realistic dilemmas, and finally settles on the eternal meaning of "home" - even after going through wind and rain, love and hope can always make life take root and grow like a tree.