Introduction to "Three Lanes of Lotus"
Green lanterns reflect ancient scrolls, and lotuses bloom for three generations of autumn. Shen Qiulian's soul is like a lotus boat, carrying unresolved fate, swinging from the mist of the Qing Dynasty to the ancient stars.
In the Forbidden City at the end of the Qing Dynasty, she was an embroidery girl under the willows of the palace wall. The silk thread on her fingertips held the lingering warmth of the memorials reviewed by Emperor Guangxu late at night. She watched the grand scene of Emperor Qianlong's imperial garden admiring the lotuses, and listened to the soft ringing of the rosary when Emperor Shunzhi escaped into the empty gate. However, in the wind of dynasty change, even a word of farewell turned into dust and smoke; turning around to enter the prosperous Tang Dynasty, She became a singer in a wine shop in Chang'an, and what played on her pipa strings were the moonlight written by the poet when she was drunk, and the unexpressed Zen thoughts under the green lotus seat in front of the Buddha; in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, she was a witch before the priest's case. When her fingertips touched the cracks of the tortoise shell, she saw the emperor coming on the clouds, and in her eyes were the stars entangled with her for three lives.
From the love, hate, anger and ignorance of mortals to the immortals' practice of overcoming tribulations, from a green lantern in front of the Buddha to a lotus heart under the emperor's seat, Shen Qiulian has been looking for that figure across time and space in every life. Every change of dynasty is a heart-wrenching reunion and parting; every change of identity contains the foreshadowing of fate. When the palace bells of the Qing Dynasty ring through the ancient altar, when the Zen music of Buddhism and Taoism merges into the galaxy of gods, this fate spanning three lives and three lives that spans thousands of years will finally reveal the most touching answer when the lotus blooms three times.
