"The long river of history has swept away countless heroes. Right and wrong, success and failure have turned into nothing and turned into a dream. Storytelling, singing and drama, telling the ancients, educating people through entertainment, I hope you will not turn a deaf ear, and be useful in life!"
From now on, we will talk about the people of the Song Dynasty and what they did. Let me explain to you all first: I am not just talking nonsense. What I emphasize is "basing the official history and adding information to the unofficial history". I combine the official history and the unofficial history to explain the story of my ancestors clearly in the vernacular.
Disclaimer: In order not to confuse the dynasties and make it easier for everyone to read, all dynasties in the article use "historical names". For example, the dynasty established by Guo Wei was definitely called "Zhou" or "Great Zhou" by people at the time. In this work, it is always called "Later Zhou", including dialogues between characters.