Romance of the Wind and Cloud: the Collapse of Rituals and the Collapse of Music

From the perspective of Ji Zhong, a minor official in the Zhou royal family's collection room, it depicts the era of the collapse of rituals and music and the great changes in the world during the Spring and Autumn Period. From the gray wind of the fall of Haojing, to the desolate autumn wind of Luoyi, to the abacus of Qi and the beacon fire of Chu, Ji Chong embraced the bamboo slips and went into exile in various countries, witnessing the disintegration of the old order and the cruel rise of the new order. He records the loss of the emperor's prestige, the feuding princes competing for hegemony and profit, witnesses the replacement of bronze by iron, and the supremacy of abacus over etiquette, and even glimpses of the blood and tears of the times in the fate of a low-level figure, Shi. This is a long song about how historical recorders protect the truth in troubled times and explore the way out of the world among broken jade and cracks. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.