"The Sun and the Moon Reopen: The Hongwu Emperor" is based on the troubled times of the late Yuan Dynasty, and depicts the legendary epic of Zhu Yuanzhang from the son of a tenant farmer in Haozhou to the founding emperor of the country. The work focuses on his grand plan to restore China's glory: to drive away the Yuan captives, pacify the heroes, and stabilize the world, and to reshape the Han Dynasty's clothes, rituals, and music with an iron fist. Through a large number of court conversations and folk narratives, it shows Zhu Yuanzhang's profound questioning of the identity of the "Emperor of Common People" and his persistent practice of reviving Han culture. The novel combines official history and anecdotes, depicting a complex monarch who combines peasant wisdom, military genius and cultural mission in the turbulent times, and interprets the civilized responsibility behind "driving out the barbarians and restoring China".
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It's good to incorporate the author's point of view into history.
It's good to incorporate the author's point of view into history.