Introduction to the work "Reincarnation of Destiny: One Hundred and Seventy Years in Bianjing"
In 960 AD, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiaoyi were inspected in front of the Zhou Dynasty. They took over the country from the orphans and widowed mothers and started the 300-year foundation of the Song Dynasty. The oath made under the swaying candlelight that night, and the glass of wine that released the military power, were destined to become the original sin that this dynasty could not get rid of.
Li Yu, the late leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, wrote his fatal words in Bianjing with blood and tears. He would never have imagined that one hundred and fifty years later, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, who destroyed his country and took away his wife, would suffer even more brutal revenge - the two emperors of Huiqin were humiliated in the north, the queens and princesses were turned into maids and concubines, and the prosperous Bianjing was reduced to a ghostland. The person who completed this revenge was Jin Taizong Wanyan Sheng, who described himself as the reincarnation of Li Yu.
This is not only the rise and fall of dynasties, but also a causal game spanning centuries. From the Chenqiao Mutiny to the Battle of Yashan, from the release of military power over a cup of wine to the unjust imprisonment in Fengboting, the Zhao and Song officials' suspicion of force, reliance on scholar-bureaucrats, and strategic shortsightedness of the enemy were interlocked like dominoes, eventually building up to the shocking tragedy of the Jingkang Incident.
"Reincarnation of Destiny" uses magnificent brushwork to outline the magnificent picture of the confrontation between the four kingdoms of Song, Liao, Jin and Xia, and uses delicate psychological portrayal to describe the fateful choices of historical figures such as Zhao Kuangyin, Li Yu, Yue Fei, Wanyan Aguda and others. When the splendor of civilization collides with the iron hooves of barbarism, when personal love and hatred are intertwined with the fate of the nation, this epic questions the price of power, the resilience of civilization, and whether people can break free from the chains of fate in the torrent of history.
One hundred and seventy years of reincarnation, Bianjing's prosperity and tears eventually turned into a sigh of history.
