In the history books, they have only one sentence.
Some people died in the war, some disappeared during the migration, some were involved in the change of dynasty, and some were just names in the biography of a certain important person. But before that sentence, they also had parents, love, hate, fear, ambition and choices they had to make.
This book is about these little people who have been hastily mentioned in history books.
Use historical facts as bones and imagination as flesh and blood; stick to the places recorded in history books; relight the lamps where history books are silent. From the late Qin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, this book will follow the fate of each tiny character and take you into the darkest, most turbulent and most human place in China's two thousand years of history.
Big history is never just the history of emperors.
It is also a life that countless little people have lived, suffered, and struggled with.
