Daughter Who Survived

"The Surviving Daughter" This story is a literary adaptation based on real personal experiences. In Lingxi Village in western Zhejiang, the old yellow mud houses deep in the mountains hide the fate of two generations of women. My mother was pregnant five times in her life, and in the end, only my eldest sister and I survived. In the twelfth lunar month of 1987, my mother gave birth to a boy at home alone and failed to keep it. Two years later, in the cold winter, I was born in a simple clinic, my whole body turned purple from the cold. It was my father who put me in his arms and used his body temperature to warm me up. The shackles of patriarchal preference, the disputes over family separation, the fireworks in the old house, and the white dog Lingling who grew up with me. There are no legends of ups and downs, just half-life joys and sorrows of ordinary people in the mountains and fields, recording sufferings and also recording the tenacity and tenderness hidden in the years.