The Yellow River Flows into the Sea: Qilu Folk Tales
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This is a literary jigsaw-style novel with the land of Qilu as the stage and a cycle of sixty years as a cycle. It tells the story of the fate of ancient and modern figures in Shandong's cultural history. The time span is from ancient times to the present. It uses Shandong's five thousand years of history as the background and creates the images of 80 small figures from the folk. A feather floated out from in front of Shaohao's Mausoleum and traveled through five thousand years, witnessing the joys and sorrows of countless people. Zhang and Zhang formed an implicit link through the geographical texture of blood (villages, streets, cities) and physical ties (stone tablets, genealogy, utensils, tokens), like pearls scattered everywhere, but when worn, they are a complete civilization necklace. : In ancient times, Xigu, a girl from Dongyi, saved hundreds of birds and covered their bodies with feathers. A feather floated to the mausoleum and was picked up by a young kite. This feather was given to the kite and told to pass it on from generation to generation. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Huaisheng, who was guarding Chi You's tomb, protected the tree with his life and fled to Lu. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lishan peasant woman Jiang Yuan obtained exotic millet seeds and harvested ten times the amount per acre. She died of starvation and the millet seeds spread to the ground, followed by feathers. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this feather passed through the hands of Guan Zhong, Bao Shuya, Confucius, Lu Ban, Mozi, and Sun Bin, witnessing the glory of a hundred schools of thought contending. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was accompanied by Tian Hengsha, Xu Fuchuan, Fusheng Qiang, Dongfang Shuotaohe, Shi Biguan Seal, and Zheng Xuan's straw sandals, experiencing the pain of unification; in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was included in Wang Dao's chess pieces, the bottom of Yang Hu stele, and Liu Xie's lamp. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was circulated with Fang Xuanling's vinegar altar, Qin Qiong's door god, Li Bai's broken cup, Liu Yi's dragon scale, Du Fu's pot iron, and Wu Daozi's writing. During the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, they were preserved with Fan Zhongyan's shepherd's purse seeds, Su Shi's rice-planting horse, Mi Fu's rubbings, Li Qingzhao's broken leaves, Xin Qiji's sword rust, Wang Chongyang's straw sandals, Qiu Chuji's ice beads, Yue Fei's spear head, Zhang Yanghao's broken paper...
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