"The Record of Misty Rain in the City" takes more than two hundred years of the Qing Dynasty (1688-1912) as the time and space coordinates, and takes the glory and collapse of the "Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties" as the main line, connecting in series major historical events such as the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories, Yongzheng's seizure of the throne, Qianlong's reform, Jiaqing's Zhongxing, the Opium War, and the Westernization Movement. The work deeply excavates historical materials such as "Records of the Qing Dynasty" and "Manuscripts of Qing History", and combines it with unofficial secrets to restore a real and vivid Qing Dynasty - not only the cultural prosperity and institutional innovation of the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, but also the decay and turmoil of the late Qing Dynasty. It also reveals the complexity and contradictions of human nature in the change of power.
"The Record of Smoke and Rain in the City" takes "interesting" as its surface and "depth" as its interior. It uses popular language and dramatic narrative to make the history of the Qing Dynasty no longer a boring pile of old papers, but a vivid epic full of human warmth and ideological tension.
