At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Lin Shen, a descendant of Captain Mojin, guarded the bronze Mojin Talisman left behind by his grandfather. During the warlord melee, he sought refuge with Sun Dianying's troops in order to survive and was forced to participate in the excavation of the Dongling Tomb. From the Qianlong rice dumplings in Yuling Mausoleum to the Cixi Night Pearl in Ding Dong Tomb, the traps and ghosts in the ancient tombs are not as good as the intrigues of warlords and the greedy plunder of foreigners. The infiltration of Japanese spy Sato made him see clearly: What is more terrifying than rice dumplings are the wolves who want to destroy our mountains and rivers and seize our cultural relics.
Li Er's sacrifice, his sister's kidnapping, and the death of Taoist Chen San made Lin Shen gradually realize that the original intention of "touching gold" was never "stealing", but "keeping". He traveled all over the mountains and rivers: in front of the Dunhuang Scripture Cave, he sealed the murals with lime water to prevent foreigners from digging them; beside the Qin Terracotta Warriors pit, he fought with his life to prevent Henry from stealing the pottery figurines; in the Mawangdui Han Tomb, he risked his life to take out the silk book of "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon"; in the ancient city of Loulan, he snatched back the "Five Stars from the East Benefit China" brocade in a sandstorm...
During the flames of the Anti-Japanese War and the smoke of the Civil War, he carried cultural relics to hide from air raids, passed through Yunnan and Burma, and entered Tibet, until he finally waited for the announcement on the Tiananmen Gate Tower in 1949. On the day of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, he handed over all the national treasures he had collected throughout his life, such as "Ladies with Hairpins" and "Emerald Cabbage", to the country, and then boarded a ship heading overseas. The Dunhuang scriptures in the New York Museum, the Tang Sancai in the London auction house, and the animal heads from the Old Summer Palace in the hands of Paris collectors are still waiting for him to spend the rest of his life to retrieve them.
The warmth of touching the golden talisman is the entrustment of the ancestors, the weight of the family and the country, and the journey of a treasure keeper across troubled times.
