The West Wind Blows Behind the Curtains, and People Are Thinner Than Yellow Flowers: Biography of Li Qingzhao

This book narrates Li Qingzhao's troubled life in the form of a biographical novel: his legendary birth; his girlhood that made a sensation in the capital with his poetry; his youthful love affair and happy marriage with Zhao Mingcheng; shortly after their marriage, his father was relegated due to party disputes, and he left Beijing due to implication. The husband was imprisoned; he lived in Qingzhou and devoted himself to the study of epigraphy; after the "Jingkang Incident", he transported the epigraphy to the south of the Yangtze River; disasters came one after another, first the husband died of illness, and then he was falsely accused of "gold in a jade pot"; the epigraphy and stone were burned, robbed, and stolen one after another, and when he was critically ill, he was involved in a marriage fraud case...