"The Legend of the Grand Canal" is a magnificent epic and legend, describing the tragic and majestic history of civilization of the Chinese nation. More than two thousand and four hundred years of war and peace, conspiracy and love, palace secrets and wild affairs, the iron fist of politicians and the suffering of the people are all told one by one in the sound of the Grand Canal. In two parallel lines of writing, the time chapter and the space chapter, the author expounds the cultural character and spiritual history of our nation through a river.