At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Moqing, a lame potter in Ruzhou, was involved in official kiln corruption and Liao conspiracy in order to re-fire the peerless azure glaze. Along the way, from the Yellow River to the South China Sea, bones were burned, tribute porcelain was broken, and fires burned into the sky. When the golden soldiers' iron hoofs crushed Bianjing, he finally realized: the true azure color is not under the glaze, but green in the unglazed area.
