Cocoon of Stars

In the deep mountains of western Hunan in the 1990s, a young girl named Chun Ya wrote the first word "female" in her life in the silkworm house. In a family that favored sons over daughters, she secretly learned literacy by feeding silkworms, writing poems silently on the backs of mulberry leaves, and caught a glimpse of the spark of knowledge in the "Being a Teacher" embroidered by the seventh grandmother's foot-binding cloth. The younger brother Dongsheng used a slingshot to knock down the school chalk dust, and the mother hid the silkworm seed code in the ashes of the burned admission notice. When the genetically modified silkworms spin out gold threads with antibacterial genes, Chunya discovers that the real way out of the cocoon is not to escape from the hometown, but to forge the key to thousands of years of sericulture wisdom: re-weaving "Split Silk Rebirth" for the embroiderer who was domestically abused, printing orthopedic insoles for the elderly with bound feet, and making biodegradable sanitary napkins with menstrual blood and silkworm sand. From a baby girl who was filled in a well to an international biological scientist, she finally used purple cocoon silk to embroider the names of all the women in the village on the moth-eaten part of the ancestral tree in the ancestral hall. Those girls who were once called "Zhao Di" and "Pandi" have now become the masters of their own destiny in the galaxy dyed with silkworm sand.