Finding a Mountain-Spirit Child: A Poor Hunter Lifts the Whole Village

About the story

Deep in the mountains in winter, hunter Zhao Yuanshan finds a four-year-old girl, Xiaoman, in a hollow in the snow beside the old forest and takes her home. With nothing to his name, he thinks he has simply gained another mouth to feed. To his surprise, Xiaoman can understand the "voices" of the mountain wind, flowing water and everything in the forest. Guided by her again and again, he discovers chaga, lion's mane mushrooms, wild gastrodia and a hidden ravine with warm springs. Overcoming blocked roads, price suppression, frame-ups and natural disasters, he grows from a small hunter living off the mountains into the owner of a mountain-produce processing factory, bringing prosperity to the whole village.