In the thirteenth year of Hongzhi's reign in the Ming Dynasty, a boy named Gu Chen was born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. He came from a declining scholarly family, and his father pinned his hopes of regaining his family name on him. This is a turbulent era. Wang Yangming is "studying bamboo", Columbus's ship has arrived in the New World, and the spark of the Renaissance is burning in Europe. No one knows how this baby born in the dense water vapor will leave his mark on this grand historical picture, witness the turning point of a dynasty, and find his own "Tao".
