When the turbid waves of the Yellow River first washed away the fertile soil of the Central Plains, and when the ignorant ancestors looked up at the stars beside the campfire, a great civilization was staggering to stand up from the chaos.
This is an era where gods and beasts dance together: Yan Emperor Shennong tastes hundreds of herbs on the banks of ginger water and uses grass to open the dawn of farming civilization; Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan stands in the wilderness of Zhuolu with a sword, gathering the power of tribal alliances with dragon totems; Jiuli Chiyou wields a bronze giant ax and carves another wild law of survival in the mist. The beacon fire in Banquan has not yet been extinguished, the smoke of gunpowder in Zhuolu has risen again, and the collision of stone axes and copper spears is not only the fighting of tribes, but also the first reorganization of civilization genes.
This is an epic from ignorance to enlightenment: Cangjie carved the first symbols of civilization on a tortoise shell, freeing the language from the shackles of oral transmission; the silk at Leizu's fingertips was entangled into warp and weft, weaving the original appearance of Chinese clothes; Dayu traveled throughout the nine states to control water, dredging not only rivers, but also the context of the transformation from "public world" to "family world". From the reconstruction of theocratic power of "Jedi Tiantong" to the power game behind the "concession system"; from the star trails of Taosi Observatory to the prototype of rituals and music of Xia Qi's "Juntai Enjoyment", every step is permeated with the ancestors' desire for order.
When the alarm bell rings for Taikang's loss of the country, when the millet of Shaokang's resurgence is full again, when the benevolence of Shang Tang's "opening the net on three sides" is intertwined with the revolution of King Wu's "Mun Ye Ying Yang", we will finally see: in the long river of Chinese civilization, there is not only the strength of the dragon totem, but also the warmth of the grain; there is not only the agility of the black bird holding the book, but also the engraved words of "respecting heaven and protecting the people".
