The Qiao Family's Three Daughters Hold the Family Together

About the story

In a village in the early 1980s, the Qiao family's second son's household has three daughters, so the patriarch dismisses it as a family with no heirs. When the family divides its property at Mid-Autumn, the houses and land are unfairly awarded to the eldest son's household. Ten-year-old Yindi publicly fights to reclaim two sacks of grain and takes on the responsibility of protecting her mother and younger sisters. From torn skirts, pressure to divorce, a stolen sewing machine and a scheme over adoption, to dead chickens on Lunar New Year's Eve and her father's stomach cancer, Yindi bears it all. At sixteen, she gives up a place at a prestigious high school and learns to make tofu to support the family. Across more than eighty episodes, the story lays bare the absurdity of favoring sons over daughters and offers one girl's defiant answer to the claim that her family has no heirs.