Since the Yellow Turban War was ignited in the first year of Zhongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty fell apart for four hundred years, and the world fell into great division and turmoil that lasted for more than three hundred years. The changes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Five Husties' chaos in China, the confrontation between the North and the South, and the rise of Guanlong. This period of time has been downplayed by official history and gradually ignored by later generations. It hides the secret context of the blending of Chinese national blood and the reconstruction of power. As for the Li family in Longxi, they started as a court official in the Han Dynasty and went through the chaos of the late Han Dynasty, the founding of Cao Wei, the rise and fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the separatist regime of Wuliang, the ups and downs of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the rise of the Western Wei and the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
This novel is based on the family genealogy of Li Ben, Li Ci, Li Gui, Li Long, Li Ai, Li Yong, Li Rou, Li Yan, Li Chang, Li Hao, Li Xin, Li Chong'er, Li Xi, Li Tianci, Li Hu, Li Min and Li Yuan. At its core, the family members' career ups and downs, life and death decisions, and feelings about family and country are used as the longitude, and every major historical change from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty is the weft, closely intertwining personal destiny, the rise and fall of the family, and the general trend of the world. The book consists of five volumes and 50 chapters. Each chapter begins with a poem, condensing the core meaning of the chapter, panoramicly restoring the three hundred years of troubled times in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, uncovering the legendary road of the Li family in Longxi from a humble official to an imperial family, and recreating those forgotten prosperous years.
