On the winter night of 1616, Wu Yunzhu, a Jurchen shaman girl from Jianzhou, foresaw the dusk of the empire three hundred years later during a ceremony to worship the sky. The prophecy she carved on birch bark was regarded by Nurhachi as a footnote to the "Seven Hatreds", but a hundred years later it triggered the "Guisi Prophecy Case" in the Kangxi Dynasty that shocked both the government and the public.
When the city of Yangzhou was destroyed in the smoke of gunfire, Han Chinese scholar Zhang Mingyuan picked up the jade cong, a symbol of ritual and music civilization, from a pool of blood; when under the fire of British warships, the Eight Banners general Namudu discovered that the ancestral bronze mirror reflected the face of Queen Victoria - three families carrying the codes of different civilizations ushered in the fateful end of the city of Wuchang in the year of 1911.
