When Yang Liu was seven years old, she started practicing single bamboo drifting with her grandmother.

当杨柳7岁的时候，她开始和奶奶练习独竹漂。

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In LIU Xing-longs fictional world, the images of grandfather and grandmother symbolize both the writers ideal native community and his concepts of life.

刘醒龙小说世界里的“爷爷”、“奶奶”是作家理想中的乡土社会的象征，是作家的生命理念。

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Mentored by her grandmother, a tiny woman in wire-framed glasses and a tight perm, Liu trained rigorously as a performer, and developed the shrewd business skills that have lifted her family from poverty to prosperity.

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