Gu Hongzhong, a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sneaked into Han Xizai's night banquet under the secret order of his later master Li Yu, and used his paintings to spy on the undercurrents of the court. During this period, he and Princess Yongjia, who advocated resistance to the Song Dynasty, became connected through a painting in "Chengxintang", and their emotions in troubled times were intertwined with the crisis of their family and country. When the Northern Song Dynasty cavalry came across the river, the princess gave him an ink edict symbolizing trust and entrusted him to record the last rivers and mountains with a brush. The city of Jinling was destroyed, the old country was reduced to dust, and the two of them were separated from each other. It was not until the snowy night palace banquet in Bianjing, when the fallen monarch mourned, and the old scrolls were re-opened, that I was shocked to realize that all the carefully described banquets and music were, as early as the beginning, the most grand and silent funeral of this dynasty.
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