Birds and Flying
While phrases about birds (such as the consistent refrain about a mated pair of Mandarin ducks) are very common to the language of nu shu, the manner in which Snow Flower uses the language…
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Lily and Snow Flower's Fan
Over the years of Lily and Snow Flower's laotong relationship, the two pass notes back and forth to each other and record major life events in ink drawings and nu shu on a single…
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Feet
In the time and place of the novel, unless a girl was very poor and destined to be a servant (like Yonggang), she would have her feet bound starting at six years old. The…
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