Ants of the Song Dynasty

This novel is divided into convex and concave volumes. The convex scroll tells the story of Lei Gong's family in the late Northern Song Dynasty. The protagonist was the king of the Ant Kingdom in his previous life (named Chun'er), and in this life he is the daughter of Lei Gong, the Minister of Household Affairs (named Chun'er). The worry-free country ruled by Chun'er was destroyed by marching ants. She and her guards managed to escape, but they became slaves of the Heartless Kingdom and were brutally oppressed and bullied. This story is comparable to certain plots in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by British writer George Orwell, and has a strong political allegorical significance. In this life, Chun'er was born in troubled times. The Jin people invaded the south, and the fate of Lei Gong's family also fluctuated with the changes of the times. The concave scroll details the beginning and end of the Jingkang Incident and restores that period of history to the greatest extent possible. In the novel, the two emperors Huiqin, as well as generals, ministers and ministers such as Li Gang, Li Bangyan, Geng Nanzhong, Nie Chang, Tong Guan, Zhong Shidao, Wang Zhen, Li Ruoshui, etc. Are all people of flesh and blood. In the face of a national crisis, their words and deeds, as well as their choices at key historical moments, all influenced or influenced the course of history. Many fictional characters are added to the novel, such as the household minister Lei Gong and his family of six, Xuexi Lian, Liu Qiu, the instructor of the Imperial Army, Wang Po who sells tea, Gao Yanei (the son of Gao Qiu), the scoundrel, Ruan Ping whose family was ruined by Hua Shigang, Miao Yin, the daughter of the criminal minister who performed in the Washi Gang, etc. Through the description of these characters, the disaster brought to the Chinese people by the Jingkang Incident is told from multiple levels and angles of society. At the same time, the novel also intersperses the folk customs of the Northern Song Dynasty into it, such as kicking boats, tea fighting, hairpins, calligraphy and painting, etc. The poems in the novel are original by the author (except two).