A Lifetime of Smoke and Dust

In the 21st year of Guangxu's reign, she was thrown into the river by her father when she was born. At the age of sixteen, she was sold as a child bride, and even had the dirty name of "consumption ghost" on her family's behalf. She was not even qualified to be snatched away by the warlord's artillery fire. In 1949, she died in a pile of straw in a ruined temple, and no one knew her name.