"Travel to the Northern Wei Dynasty: Writing Wild History Without Disturbing the Dust" tells the story of a history graduate student who accidentally traveled to the Northern Wei Dynasty and became Emperor Xiaowen Tuoba Hong, but chose to experience history as a "spectator".
He is well aware of the inertia of history and the weight of cause and effect, and refuses to interfere with the progress of the times with modern knowledge. He only wishes to touch the texture outside official history as an emperor. From the morning fog in the Pingcheng palace to the bustle of the streets of Luoyang, he witnessed the complex emotions behind Empress Dowager Feng's power, listened carefully to the unfinished words in the debate between the Xianbei nobles and the Han literati, and recorded the shouts in the market, the warmth of the palace banquet, and the children's chatter that history has ignored.
The obscure records scattered in epitaphs and the detailed past events hidden in folklore are transformed into vivid "unofficial history" in his writings: the late night wanderings of reformers, the helpless struggles of opponents, the subtle tenderness when different nations collide... He collects fragments of time like a scavenger, not to subvert the conclusion, but to restore an era of flesh and blood. When the souls thousands of years later look back with a box full of "unofficial history", history is no longer a cold text, but a tangible and tangible breath of life.
