Cai Zhengmao

Overview

Gender:Male

Vote #60

Vote #9

Professor about 55 years old, a returned intellectual. Skinny with sunken, lifeless eyes. Labeled as a rightist in 1959 and sent to the countryside. Lives in the same cowshed as Professor Zheng. Yang Qiujin secretly sends him herbs for tea.

Novel Roles

Supporting

Other Characters

Yang Qiujin

Protagonist

Female protagonist, a hardworking and fiery-tempered woman in her early thirties. She is...

Chen Tianyou

Protagonist

Six-year-old son of Yang Qiujin, also called Tianyou or Yang Tianyou. He is mischievous ...

Chen Shengqing

Supporting

Husband of Yang Qiujin and father of Chen Tianyou. He joined the army just a month after...

Li Xiu'e

Supporting

Middle-aged woman in her forties, Yang Qiujin's mother-in-law and Chen Shengqing's mothe...

Yang Qiujin's Mother

Minor

Mentioned as the person to whom Yang Qiujin gives half of the processed bamboo shoots. S...

Tianyou

Supporting

The grandson, son of Lin Chenghai's older brother. He loves the red-braised lion's head ...

Tian Chunlian

Supporting

Yang Qiujin's second sister-in-law, married to Chen Shenggui. Thirty-year-old woman with...

Chen Shenggui

Supporting

Tian Chunlian's husband and Yang Qiujin's elder brother-in-law. Son of Mr. Chen's first ...