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lit. leaf to leaf, dust to dust (idiom); fig. Ashes to ashes, dust to ashes
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Taishun County, a mountainous county in the south of Zhejiang Province, is a place of nine mountains and half water, where stones are abundant and stonemasonry is a profession practiced by many people here. In the early 1960s, during China's most difficult three-year period, the main character, Ah Ye, who grew up in a poor family with a divorced mother and four young brothers and relied only on his father to earn labor credits, followed the master stonemason, Ah Song, to learn the art of stonemasonry, and then moved to Shaanxi to work as a laborer to learn the art of stonemasonry, and made a name for himself in southern Shaanxi...