Sky Screen Livestream: A History Blogger's Classroom Across Time

Lin Xiaoyou, a history content creator, never imagined that the audience in her livestream classroom would include Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, Wu Zetian, Zhu Yuanzhang, and a host of other historical figures.

When she explained the “Agricultural Revolution in Ancient China,” Emperor Wu of Han carefully noted the key improvements to the alternate-field system.

When she presented an “Illustrated Guide to Daily Life in Song Dynasty Cities,” the people of Kaifeng marveled as they compared it with their own lives.

When she released an episode on “Female Rulers in World History,” Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi spoke to each other across time.

When she compared “Paths of Scientific and Technological Development in China and the West,” Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci took notes together.

What puzzled her even more was that the livestream chat was always full of history buffs who asked impossibly specialized questions and often argued over historical details. Then one day, she read a comment: “I have watched this sky screen for three months. Should the waterworks in Guanzhong be rebuilt in this way?”

Lin Xiaoyou began to suspect that these viewers, who were “taking things too seriously,” might really come from the eras they claimed. And each of her videos about science and technology, women's status, and patriotism was quietly changing the course of history across dynasties in parallel timelines.

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