Yashan: the Last Moment

Name: Yashan: the Last Moment
Author: Dream Network Man

by Dream Network Man

ongoing History Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties Male Lead

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6Kwords2chapters

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Ch. 2 — Xiuniang (Embroiderer)

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About This Novel

On the sixth day of February in the second year of Xiangxing, Yashan. In the last battle of the Southern Song Dynasty, one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians sank into the sea. The novel ends here, but it starts from the end. The book has one hundred and eight chapters, divided into four parts: Market Records, Traveling to the Court, Military Records, and Survivors at Sea - looking back at life from the perspective of nearly a hundred people at the last moment before crossing the sea. Blacksmith, singer, palace maid, forbidden soldier, luthier, veteran, messenger, unknown person... Every name is a tombstone, and a complete life is engraved on each tombstone. The novel uses a flashback structure, looking back at the fireworks in Lin'an from the cliff mountain, tracing the three thousand miles of exile from the fireworks in Lin'an, and finally ending up in the same sea. The ending starts from the sea and spans hundreds of years: the survivors spend the rest of their lives in silence with their memories, the exiled survivors in Nanyang bring the reign name of the Song Dynasty to foreign lands, the surviving literati use poems to mourn the dynasty, and later generations of reminiscers turn Yashan into an eternal cultural memory. A knife engraved with "Resume the Song Dynasty", a well whose name was written 355 years ago, a ship that will never be finished, a flag that no one recognizes - the people and things that sank to the bottom of the sea have repeatedly floated up and down in the memory and forgetfulness of later generations. This is not a history of national subjugation. This is an epic about "how memories are preserved".