A widowed woman who raised four sons on her own. She was once the women's militia's top marksman. Her husband Old Jiang drowned while helping build a reservoir. She is hot-tempered yet straightforward. Her third son became the first person in Wuliu Commune to secure an iron rice bowl in the provincial capital. The eldest and second sons married and established separate households. She lives with her unmarried youngest son and her eldest grandson's daughter who was sent down from the city during the Down to the Countryside movement.