Female supporting character, Chen Shengqing's mother and Yang Qiujin's mother-in-law. She is determined that Chen Shengqing will not divorce Yang Qiujin and will take her and the child to follow the army. She threatened to hang herself with a rope from the livestock room to force his agreement. She does not want to go to the border because her husband Old Chen is buried on the hill behind and she wants to stay with him. She wants Tianyou and Qiujin to have another child to make the house livelier. She had a deep affection for her deceased husband.