Through the changes in the fate of several small people in the beautiful fishing village of Dazhuang, it reflects the meaning of life given to them by the times. The integrity and kindness of the low-level people with positive energy such as Guo Jinhu, Xiugu, and Zhang Mao are in sharp contrast with Hou Shanlang and others, and they are also engaged in a kind of natural struggle.
Using "cultural heritage activation" as the narrative engine, historical figures such as Dong Zhongshu are brought from the historical altar into the daily life of Henghu Lake, making snuff bottles and rat-whisker brushes become "local artifacts" that leverage power and witness changes. While "digging out cultural roots from the soil", it injects the genre tension of "cultural relic archeology + folklore" into local novels, striving to create a "golden pot and ink dance" between tradition and modernity in the literary field.
