The Firmament

Ali is a young merchant from Samarkand in the Khwarazmian Empire. Abbas is a craftsman from Merv in the Khwarazmian Empire. When the steppe empire launched its western campaign, they were conscripted by its armies and came east together. After the Yuan dynasty fell, their descendants fled to Hezhou in Longyuan.

Hassan, a Salar, followed his chieftain, Galemang, east from Western Asia to Jishi by the Western Sea.

Wang Chen, from Bingzhou, and Gong Huaizhou, from Dongjing, are native Easterners. During the Ming dynasty, some of Gong Huaizhou's descendants migrated west to the Western Sea. Wang Chen's descendants also settled by the Western Sea and became in-laws with the Gong family.

Through marriage, the descendants of these five families formed a large, united family. They endured the hardships of the old society and witnessed the birth of a new nation.

Their descendants entered Jincheng University, where they studied together in the same classroom. Thirty years after graduating, they reunited in Jincheng to reminisce and feel the warmth of their great family, their country.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.