I'm a girl who grew up in the village.

I am Zha Shiyi Re: Zha is a family name, Shiyi (Eleven) is the season I was born, and Re is a type of grass. I was born in 1990, a Flower-Waist Yi ethnic, and grew up in a mountain village in the high-altitude regions of Yunnan. This book records my growth, outlines my life trajectory over the past 34 years, and leaves behind some life chronicles for my female relatives and neighbors.
In my early village life, poverty meant that life was inevitably difficult and straitened, yet it was not without its natural romance: flowers, trees, sunshine, streams, mountains and fields, cats and dogs, cattle and horses, birds, playmates... These flowing rural elements accompanied my childhood, weaving old dreams that softened the soul.
The personal lives of myself, my mother, my sisters, my female relatives and neighbors—two generations of Yi rural women—including their autonomy, emotions, desires, and preferences, have, with social development, shown a belated but vigorously changing landscape. As someone born in 1990, my growth, schooling, employment, and migration have coincided with the acceleration of the nation's urbanization process, as well as the loss of rural memories and frontier experiences. I hope that through my writing, I can preserve a record of the people and customs of the old village. "In my village, many things are certain. I know the cows won't run away, and I know the sun will set on time. I will return home with the cows, eat dinner, and then fall into a dream."

2025-08-01

上海译文出版社

296

9787532799893