Bianjing is full of lanterns for ten miles, depicting the century-old splendor of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhao Yingluo, the concubine of Shunde, had been ups and downs throughout her life. In the first seventeen years, she was the empress of the Song Dynasty with shining sleeves within the palace walls. Once the Jingkang Kingdom was overthrown, she became a prisoner of the Northern Captives. After moving around the Jin camp, he was seized by powerful men twice. He fled thousands of miles away, unable to find his old friends from his homeland. His body was covered with broken jade and the fragrance disappeared, and he was buried in the desolate cold of the Five Kingdoms City. The novel takes her wandering and humiliating life as a guide, depicting the cold years of Jingkang, the broken iron horse, the palace walls covered with dust, and the two emperors hunting in the north. The jewels and classics were plundered, and the clan members fled to the north. The once beautiful capital suddenly turned into ruins and a tragic song.
The country is deeply mourned, the ups and downs of troubled times, loyal ministers weep and shed blood to defend the land, and the common people are displaced. The unparalleled shame of the overthrow of a dynasty, and the eternal hatred of mountains and rivers soaked in blood and tears, describe the love and hate character and the tragic song of family and country under the collapse of the prosperous age.