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Little Fortune's Clay Art Lights Up the 1980s

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In the snowy 1980, Little Fortune—adopted by her parents from a snowbank—had always loved pinching clay figurines by the stove. But in a family so poor they couldn’t even afford kerosene lamps, who cared about a child’s “play”? Until her adoptive mother suddenly got stomach trouble and needed 5 yuan for medicine. Little Fortune rushed to the supply and marketing cooperative with her clay “fat doll” made from river mud, and a merchant buying local goods bought it for 20 yuan! Since then, her “clay magic” became the family’s “lifesaver”: she made wedding dolls for villagers in exchange for eggs, cartoon clay ornaments for the cooperative for food stamps, and even turned the quiet Peach Blossom Village into a “clay sculpture village.” But when the county craft factory came in a truck to take her as a “technician,” Little Fortune hugged her mother’s waist and cried: “I don’t make clay figurines to be a master—I just want Mom and Dad to never go hungry again.” It turns out her “superpower” was never her skill, but the desire to give back the warmth of being picked up from the snow, a hundredfold.

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