Whether it is Sanshan County, which is named after Sanxian Mountain on the sea,
Or is it the South Pearl, which is also named after the North Pearl?
Or the pearl diver whose name makes people imagine...
Each of these images made people daydream, but when connected together, Chen Yang frowned.
On Earth, he had never heard of the legend of the pearl diver.
In Qionghai, there are Dan people, that is, poor people who are all on the same boat from birth, to growth, to marriage, to death.
There are women among them who can go to the sea to fish for pearls at the age of twelve or thirteen.
Only women can do this. According to the saying, men are more dirty and will pollute the aura of pearls. Secondly, they are not as flexible and tenacious as women, making it difficult for them to bear the burden of pearl fishing.
Chen Yang vaguely remembered that the life of the pearl divers was very hard, and most of them died young. Under every gorgeous pearl, there was a lot of blood and tears.
Gao Ming continued to tell the story of Sanshan County. Chen Yang listened and felt that there were more blood and tears in it than he imagined...
Pearl divers usually grow up on the water and have amazing water skills.
When he was twelve or thirteen years old, he started fishing for pearls in the sea.
This job is not as beautiful as imagined.
Because the precious southern pearls are all found in the deep sea, the pearl divers need to dive to the deepest seabed, touch the big clams on the bottom of the sea, and then pry open the clam shells to dig out the southern pearls.
Each time, it takes several dives in a short period of time to get a southern pearl.
Every time before going into the water, the pearl divers have to take off all their clothes and go into the sea naked. After working in the water for several hours, they come back up again. Their skin is covered with blood spots.
The strong water pressure squeezed out not only the blood of the pearl divers, but also their lives.
It is common for pearl divers to live less than 20 years and have no chance to marry or have children.
It is said that in history, no pearl diver has ever lived beyond the age of thirty.
Recently, there was a pearl diver in Sanshan County. She was extremely talented and could find pearls every time. She also had a melodious voice and liked to sing. Some people said that she was the daughter of the sea.
People in Sanshan County call her Haenyeo.
Haenyeo has a dream. She wants to marry an ordinary man, give birth to a child, and watch him grow up. She doesn't want anything more, just twelve or thirteen years old.
The haenyeo worked hard to collect pearls, and even though they were exploited at all levels, they still saved money.
Just when she wanted to use the money as a dowry to find a man who was willing to marry the pearl diver and give birth to a child soon, an accident happened.
In order to please the nobles in the capital, the local magistrate forced the haenyeo to go deeper into the sea to collect the unique southern pearls.
When Haenyeo refused, the county magistrate kidnapped her parents, her younger brother, and the man she liked and forced them.
The haenyeo had no choice but to go into the sea for more than ten hours a day, draining their essence and blood to collect pearls for the county magistrate.
Ten days ago, she finally couldn't hold on anymore. After fishing for pearls, she vomited a mouthful of blood and her whole body withered.
Haenyeo felt that she was going to die, and she wanted to see her parents, her younger brother, and the man she wanted to marry before she died.
The county magistrate heard the news and came.
After confirming that the haenyeo were indeed hopeless and could no longer fish for pearls, the county magistrate became furious, hating that the haenyeo were useless, so he simply told the truth.
It turned out that the relatives of Haenyeo had been tortured to death by the county magistrate.
He simply didn't believe in the daughter of the sea, thinking that the family members of the haenyeo, the men, could know the secret of the haenyeo being good at fishing for pearls, so he tortured her to extract a confession.
Within three days of falling into the hands of the county magistrate, Haenyeo's family members and loved ones died.
Many people know about this, but no one dares to tell Haenyeo for fear of offending the county magistrate.
Poor Haenyeo doesn't know anything and is still fishing for pearls under the coercion of the county magistrate.