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This book uses the research perspective and writing style of "historical ethnography", combines folk historical documents and on-the-spot fieldwork, and conducts research on the people in the "Dongdi" villages in the lower reaches of the Liujiang River at the junction of Guizhou and Guangxi. It hopes to reveal how they have faced the military power of the dynastic state and various political, economic and cultural policies since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This paper explores the overall "structural" changes in mountainous village society in terms of family organization, marriage relationships, and ritual traditions, in order to explore the multiple possibilities and diversified ways for people in southern mountainous areas to live under the rule of dynastic states, and to rethink the history writing and social and cultural processes of the people in southwest China.

The protagonist He Sigou survived the catastrophe and continued to put all his life gratitude into writing. Eventually, he became a nationally famous writer. At a charity book signing, He Sigou was surprised to find that one of the audience members turned out to be his sister who passed away many years ago. He also revealed a secret that had been hidden for ten years: it turned out that in order to stimulate his fighting spirit, his parents made up a white lie: they sent his sister to work in other places anonymously and faked the fact that her sister died...