The Sky Screen’s Chinese Class Leaves Emperors of Every Dynasty Shaken

Lin Ze is an ordinary high school Chinese teacher. What he doesn’t know is that footage of his lessons is being broadcast live through a “sky screen” to every dynasty! When he teaches “Ode to Epang Palace” and ruthlessly exposes the cycle behind the rise and fall of dynasties, Qin Shi Huang, in the midst of massive construction projects, breaks into a cold sweat. His entire court drops to its knees and begs for mercy. When he dissects “Kong Yiji” and tears apart the truth of how the feudal imperial examination system “devoured” people, great scholars across the dynasties see their faith collapse, while impoverished scholars everywhere weep bitterly. When he teaches “Memorial on Sending Off the Troops” and laments, from a modern perspective, the unfinished business of Shu Han, Liu Bei sobs uncontrollably in his military camp, and Zhuge Liang’s tears soak his feather fan. From “Blessings” to “On the Six States,” from “The Song of Everlasting Regret” to “The Old Man Selling Charcoal”... Lin Ze uses a modern person’s all-seeing perspective to give their ancestors one soul-shaking lesson in intellectual enlightenment after another. Then one day, Lin Ze teaches “Joyfully Watching the Rice and Millet, Rolling in Waves,” and the sky screen shows hybrid rice, the steel torrent of modern China, and lights shining in countless homes. At that moment, starving people across all the dynasties kneel and cry out, calling it divine! Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Taizu of Song all burst into tears: “This is what a true age of prosperity and great unity for our China looks like!”