Taking the peasant uprising in the late Qing Dynasty as the background, and using the life of Chen Yanqiu, a Heying jade craftsman, to write down the tragic core of "rivers are easy to block, but the people of the world are difficult to block." The protagonist has superb jade craftsmanship and can block the monstrous bursts of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, but cannot block the corruption of the Qing court, the wars of troubled times, and the strife of people's hearts. There are no counterattacks or exciting points in the whole process. It is a serious historical and bitter story about a country in troubled times and the fate of a small person from the perspective of a low-level technician.
