"The Black Bird of Destiny: The Biography of "Ode to Shang" is a cultural epic spanning three thousand years, panoramically showing the inheritance process of "Ode to Shang" from the sacrificial songs of the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the core classics of Chinese civilization. The five volumes and twenty chapters of the book reveal the original appearance of the Shang people's sacrificial civilization through the double confirmation of archaeological discoveries and documentary records, trace the cultural revival of the Song Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty, explain the achievements of commentaries on the classics in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and show the new interpretation of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, until the modern transformation of the spread of Western learning to the east in modern times. This work is not only an in-depth interpretation of the five chapters of "Ode to Shang", but also a grand narrative of the inheritance and development of Chinese civilization, demonstrating the tenacious vitality and eternal value of traditional culture in the long history.
