Third Act: Huizhou's Dreams
The men in Ancient Huizhou were doing businesses outside almost all around a year. For the women here in Huizhou, marriage means live alone at home most of their lives. So they often scatter the coins and then collect them back one by one in the night to relieve their loneliness in heart and show their loyalty to their husbands.
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The men in Ancient Huizhou were doing the business outside almost all around a year. For the women here marriage means live alone at home.
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They often scatter the coin and then collect them back one by one in the night to relieve the loneliness in heart and show their loyalty to their husbands.
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Young wives wait night after night for their husbands to come back. |
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Young mothers send their sons to school, but they don't know once their sons grow up, they will leave home for long long time doing business outside.
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Young mother awaits her son coming back from doing business outside.
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Her son finally comes back from doing business outside, but the mother has become old.
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Her son succeed in doing business, but the mother is dying. |
Huizhou area is not very big but with a large population, and many local people went out for business. It leads to the deep Crisis Consciousness of the people there. Thus, the Hui Merchant take up the main business in a period of great prosperity over 400 years.
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