The Bamboo Keeper

[Third YUEJIAN Intangible Cultural Heritage Award: Bronze]

After her father died in a car accident, her mother became even more absorbed in weaving bamboo. Just like her grandfather had after her grandmother died.

But it was a mountain road her father had driven hundreds of times. There was no other driver involved, and the surveillance footage had gone missing. How could it have been an accident?

To uncover the truth, Jiang Xinyue returned to the eerie bamboo-craft village of Daoming Town. When she deciphered the message “We are still alive” from the heights of the bamboo sections, she learned that her grandfather was no ordinary farmer. He had been quietly working on something major, something the bamboo guardians had passed down for two thousand years...