"A Long Song of Troubled Times: Records of Floating Life in the North and South" is a historical novel set in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The novel takes the two fictional families of the Lanling Xiao family of the Southern Dynasties and the Beilu family of the Northern Dynasties and the mysterious organization "Tianji Pavilion" as the main line. The time span is from the early years of the Liu Song Dynasty to the eve of the unification of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. The geographical span covers the major capitals and border passes of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Through multi-point perspective narration, war, intrigues, customs and cultural differences are shown, and many characters whose fate is closely connected with the times are created. Respect historical events and timelines, cleverly embed fictional characters and plots, and promote the historical process. The details are rigorously researched, and the story depicts the glory and darkness of human nature in troubled times, the feelings of family and country and personal love and hate, the pain and inevitability of national integration, and the corrosion and test of human nature by power. Divided into ten parts, each part focuses on a different historical stage and family destiny, from the early days of the establishment of the Liu Song Dynasty to the battle of the Sui Dynasty to destroy the Chen Dynasty, witnessing the great moment of reunification after the division of the North and the South nearly three hundred years ago, as well as the reflections and prospects of the descendants of the main fictional family under the new empire.
