She is the pearl of Khitan and the inheritor of Han family culture.
He is a courtier of the Han people and an ideal fellow traveler on the grassland.
When the dynasty collapsed and the gap between Hu and Han was as deep as a natural chasm, sixteen-year-old Xiao Yanyan was pushed onto the cliff of history.
From then on, she carried thousands of miles of mountains and rivers with her daughter, and spent forty years to blaze an unprecedented path between blood and fire, intrigue and warmth, betrayal and protection - opening the imperial examination, integrating the Hu and Han Dynasties, and establishing the Chanyuan Alliance.
She made the Khitan cavalry learn to hold a pen, made the beacon smoke on the Great Wall turn into the sound of books, and made the peach blossoms of the Central Plains bloom in the wind and snow in the North.
But the history books described her as a "female chicken Si Chen", and the court scolded her for "disobeying the ancestral system". Even her closest relatives may not understand her loneliness.
It was not until her later years in the storm that she was finally able to write down the sentence in her dream that no one could understand: "May both the inside and outside of the Great Wall be home, and the descendants of the Hu and Han Dynasties share the same Yanhuang."
This is not a palace fight, but a breakthrough of civilization.
This is not romance, this is ideal symbiosis.
Open this book and see how a woman spent her whole life writing the prelude to "the unity of the Chinese nation in diversity" thousands of years ago.
This book is dedicated to all readers who believe that "fusion is more powerful than opposition, and construction is more eternal than destruction."
Reader comments
It's my favorite type, historical and biographical, and the writing style is very stylish.
It's my favorite type, historical and biographical, and the writing style is very stylish.