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Chang'an Smoke in the Moon
Based on the prosperous Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City is built full of fireworks and undercurrents of intrigue. Through the perspective of He Bing as a folk embroiderer, it shows the Tang Dynasty's Tang Dynasty market culture, aristocratic life and palace secrets. At the same time, it incorporates cultural elements such as embroidery, tea ceremony, and Hu music, giving the story both a sense of history and a sense of life.
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Xianyang Jinxue
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, when the world was first settled, Qin Shihuang implemented strict laws and carried out large-scale construction projects, making the people miserable. The city of Xianyang is prosperous on the surface, but in reality there are undercurrents, with various forces fighting openly and covertly for power and interests. Against the background of such troubled times, the fate of ordinary men and women was swept up by the tide of the times, unfolding a love story with ups
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The Light of Troubled Times
The story is set in Shanghai and Nanjing from 1920 to 1937, with warlords fighting and the rise of national industry as the background. The feasting and feasting on the Bund in Shanghai are in sharp contrast to the hunger and cold in the slums. The establishment of the National Government in Nanjing brought a brief period of stability. At the same time, the undercurrent of Sino-Japanese conflicts gradually escalated, adding a sense of the times to the story.
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The Beacon Swallow Returns to Its Nest
In a war-torn era, Zhang Yan, a famous actor in the Peking Opera House, and Zheng Yuan, a mechanical engineer who had returned from studying abroad, became connected due to an unexpected encounter. One carries the mission of family inheritance, and the other carries the ideal of saving the country through industry. The two support each other in troubled times. As the Japanese invasion of China intensified, they went from guarding opera gardens and protecting folk crafts to participating in under
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Dreams in the Late Qing Dynasty
In the last years of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty, great powers were surrounding the country, and domestic revolutionary undercurrents were surging. In the collision between tradition and change, the Zhang family, a weaving family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Chen family, the emerging Westernization businessmen, witnessed the collapse of the old order and the emergence of new trends of thought. The silk shops in Suzhou City, the foreign companies in Shanghai, and the revolut
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Clear Dream and Floating Life
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, internal and external troubles intertwined. Above the court, party struggles are fierce; among the people, people are running for their livelihoods. The Wang family of Yangzhou salt merchants was destroyed due to a smuggling case. The orphan Wang Xin'er was forced to get involved in the disputes between the powerful in the capital in order to survive. Su Jiajie, a man with a yellow flag in Manchuria, is an imperial guard but has the ambition to ser
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