During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River were shrouded in mist. Strange shadows were hidden in the porcelain glaze, and innocent ghosts were trapped in the drama. Behind the statue in the Town God's Temple in Yingtian County, there is always someone carving a crooked limerick with blood on his fingertips - "A baby cries in a porcelain kiln and the bones grow flowers, while a boat locks the soul and soaks in scabs." The signature is a crooked skull. The person who wrote this is Qianlong, a weirdo with a cracked porcelain lamp hanging on his waist to peek at souls: he would turn his eyes blue and white when he saw someone, but would whisper to the wild ghosts in the deserted graves; he would throw copper coins on the foreheads of beggars to test for evil spirits, and he would also sing out-of-tune funeral songs while applying red makeup on paper figures in Yizhuang.
