My name is Lin Qing. When I was seventeen years old, I became an apprentice at Yanyitang in Guzhen. Master Chen Yanzhi said that my horoscope is water, wood, and clear, but I only lack fire and earth. I didn't understand at that time and thought that fate was just a cold deduction of the heavenly stems and earthly branches.
Until Su Yu and I went to Jinling together, and during the hundreds of days and nights we spent embroidering the "Picture of Mountains and Rivers", we caught a glimpse of personnel disputes between the needles and threads, and resolved fatal crises in the pattern. It suddenly dawned on me that the most profound numerology is not about calculating heavenly secrets, but using what you have learned to protect what you love, and creating your own opportunity of "fire and earth coming together" in the fireworks of the world.
This notebook records every step from my first understanding of the Five Elements to understanding the pattern. It also records the warm time when mountains and rivers were embroidered into brocade and each other's lives.
