Backbone: Chiseled from the Mountains

His name is Lu Changgui, he is the most silent man in Shigeda Village and the most "stupid" father. People in the village said that he had done two stupid things in his life: The first thing was to reject all the matchmakers who came to propose marriage, holding a hoe and saying: "My daughter wants to fly out of this mountain, not get married." The second thing is that he vowed to let all four children go to college. An illiterate man with a disabled body wanted to dig through the mountain of generational poverty. So, people saw—— He squatted in the leaky classroom, using his calloused hands to copy the writing on the blackboard crookedly, just so that he could teach his children a question when he returned home. He stuffed the money he got from selling blood into the child's luggage along with the hard-steamed steamed buns. He pasted each certificate on the blackened earth wall. It was the only god he worshiped for his family in the dark years. He is like an old ox, carrying the whole family's livelihood on his shoulders, silently plowing through the most barren years. He used his spine as a ladder and lifted his four children - Tsinghua University, Peking University, National University of Defense Technology and Harvard - out of the mountains little by little, to a distance he had never imagined. It wasn't until the children each reached the peak of their times that they understood in tears: The father's silent backbone, bent by life, is the highest and hardest ridge that supports their entire lives. This is a family epic written over twenty years. This is the most profound story about father, about land, and about how "reading" changes destiny. Dedicated to all of us who are silently lifted up, and also dedicated to those silent and majestic backs like mountains.