Starting at Mount Huangshan, I Set Out Across a Thousand Miles to Solve the Mysteries of Ancient Texts

Name: Starting at Mount Huangshan, I Set Out Across a Thousand Miles to Solve the Mysteries of Ancient Texts
Author: hajl336699

从黄山开始赴万里山河解古籍谜团

by hajl336699

Status: Completed
Length: 158k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Twenty years ago, Gu Jingzhi, a researcher of ancient books at the National Library and an inheritor of heritage geography, mysteriously disappeared while investigating the source of the Yellow River. All he left behind was an incomplete manuscript, Notes on Mountains and Rivers, and the words, “As long as the mountains and rivers endure, our cultural legacy will live on.”

Twenty years later, his grandson Gu Yanzhou has become the curator of Notes on Mountains and Rivers, a Douyin account with 860,000 followers. While livestreaming an interpretation of Xu Xiake's Travels on Mount Huangshan, a comment changes his life forever:

“Your grandfather disappeared right here twenty years ago.”

A line of writing carved into the cliff, captured by the drone camera, is an exact match for the handwriting in the manuscript.

Su Qingyi, a restorer of ancient books at the National Library, soon comes looking for him. The incomplete Song Dynasty edition of Commentary on the Waterways Classic she is restoring is the only key to deciphering the manuscript.

Together with their team, the two use seven ancient books from the National Library's collection as their keys, traveling across Mount Huangshan, the Yellow River, Sanxingdui, the Kunlun Mountains, the mausoleums of the Yan and Huang emperors, Mount Tai, and West Lake to unlock the secrets of a thousand-year-old cultural legacy. Millions of livestream viewers witness it all:

They use hard evidence from ancient texts to expose fake-culture influencers, wield the law against a gang of cultural relic smugglers, go from strangers to kindred spirits to life partners, and uncover both the truth behind the disappearance that remained buried for twenty years and the smugglers' shocking conspiracy.

Every inch of land beneath our feet holds an epic written by our ancestors into the mountains and rivers.

And we are the ones who will continue that epic.

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