Lily: Lily is the main character and her best and worst quality is her need for love, first, her need for love from her mother which only brings her sadness and pain, then her need for love from Snow Flower which results lily wasting the last eight years she could have had with her laotong on petty jealousy and fear of rejection.
Snow Flower: Snow flower is a girl from Tongkou who was originally from a very high social standing but when the emperors changed her family fell out of favor her father took to opium and her high standing was over but her aunt in hopes of making her a more favorable bride searched for a laotong for her. One of Snow Flowers characteristics is that she is constantly trying to please her loved ones first her family by being out standing in her study of nushu a secret women’s language and embroidery, then Lily by listening and following her advise on making her husband happy even if it means breaking a taboo.
Madam Wang: she is the match maker and also snow flowers aunt and we know that she dearly loves snow flower because of all the things she does to get her into a better marriage. Including risking business opportunities by recommending a girl from a broken household but in the end her efforts seem to be in vain since she ends up marrying a butcher and in their country which is mostly Buddhist this is considered the most unclean profession.
Beautiful Moon: Lily’s cousin is Beautiful moon. Her fate was directly tied to Lily’s they were both going to move to Tongkou and marry in to the Lee family which is the highest ranking family in the region but on one hot summer day while the girls are embroidering outside beautiful moon is stung by a bee and dies.
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