
Old Dream of Mountains and Rivers
by Yi Hai 1933
About This Novel
When I was seven or eight years old, I took out two books from my sister's schoolbag: a topographic map of China, with mountains and rivers surging; and a book about the Dazexiang Uprising, with torches glowing red on a rainy night. Only then did I realize that mountains and rivers can be redrawn and history can be rewritten. Chen Sheng's words, "Princes, generals, and prime ministers would rather have their own kind" pulled the emperor down from the clouds; Chu Nan Gong once said, "Although Chu has three households, if Qin is destroyed, Chu will definitely die." In the past ten years, the mountains and rivers changed hands several times. Qin united the world, and the second generation died. If the dragon's energy is not exhausted yet, the iron hooves will rise again-- A hundred years later, Yingji rebuilt the Qin Dynasty in troubled times, and it was called "Eastern Qin" in history. However, in the fifth generation of the Qin Dynasty, there were natural and man-made disasters, official warehouses were empty, and the people changed their sons to eat. Su Rui, a petty official, became the first person to ring the death knell. Chu Yu acted righteously, Bai Ao rose to prominence, Mongolia marched south, and the Song court fought within itself... Heroes compete with each other, heroes are strangers to each other, and history always repeats itself. But mountains and rivers are fragile, but human hearts are immortal. This is just an "Old Dream of Mountains and Rivers" that I just woke up from.
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