摘要
CAO Heshu is one of the many well-known folk artisans in the ancient capital of Nanjing, in Jiangsu Province,Her knotting handicrafts have been selected as a unique Chinese folk art by the Minisiry of Culture. Cao, 70, lives in a one-story courtyard by the Qinhuai River in Nanjing. Her life was full of frustrations.She lost her mother at the age of 9 and stayed with her step-mother who did not allow her to