Seven hundred years of Tusi rule in Bozhou were thrown into turmoil by the emperor’s suspicions and the baseless oppression of local officials, leading to the campaign to pacify Bozhou, one of the Ming dynasty’s three great military campaigns. Ruilian was the second daughter of the Bozhou Tusi family, the Yangs. She and the imperial uncle Li Ying were deeply in love and lived in perfect harmony, but the campaign to pacify Bozhou implicated them. The imperial court ordered them to divorce, and the following year she entered the Imperial Temple of Protecting the Nation and Praying for Longevity to become a nun, taking the Buddhist name Miaoyun. Heartbroken, Li Ying abandoned his wealth and status and became a monk at Cheng’en Temple in Beijing, taking the name Miaoxuan. Five years later, Miaoyun received permission to return home and pay respects at the graves of her ancestors, then settled at Tianchi Temple on Mount Fanjing. When Li Ying, now Miaoxuan, saw that she had not returned to the capital for a long time, he set out to find her. He became a monk at a tea temple on Mount Fanjing, and thus began their years of spreading Buddhist culture there.
This book takes the Pingbo War, the three major conquests of the late Ming Dynasty, as the background, and writes about the local chieftain culture and the political culture of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the struggle between the official circles and the chieftains in the southwest frontier, and the chieftain resistance under the political oppression of the Ming Dynasty imperial power. The protagonist in the book was originally a chieftain lady, and accidentally met the uncle of the dynasty. The two fell in love with each other, but due to the conflict between the court and the chieftain, she was forced to become a monk and even separated from her flesh and blood. She silently resisted by spreading Buddhist culture. It is regretful to not be able to love, and it is painful to regain and lose love. The so-called family affection, love and friendship all seem so pale and feeble in the face of royal politics.