Five thousand years of history are filled with emperors and generals. But what really holds up this land are the little people who are brushed aside or even never mentioned.
"Unknown History" contains fifty ordinary people who really existed but have been almost forgotten by history. Among them, there was the jailer Wei Shun who risked beheading to steal Yue Fei's body and kept it secret for twenty years; there was Fan Ruoshui, a scholar of the Southern Tang Dynasty who failed to pass the imperial examination and turned around to help Zhao Kuangyin build a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River, destroying his own country; there was the blind Zu Jue of the Northern Qi Dynasty, who was a genius and a thief and became the prime minister; there was Mu Chen, the wife of a sixth-rank official in the Qing Dynasty, who brought down the prince of the dynasty with a complaint...
They had no illustrious military exploits, no articles handed down from generation to generation, and many of them did not even have the dates of their birth and death. But at a certain moment, they polished a corner of history with their own choices - loyalty or betrayal, perseverance or compromise, kindness or greed.
This is a biography of "losers" and a group portrait of "unknown people". In every humble life, there is a thrilling story.
Purpose: Every ordinary person deserves to be seen. History is not only an epic of heroes, but also a brocade woven by countless little people with their blood, tears, choices and destiny. They may not have changed the direction of history, but their existence itself is the most powerful proof of the dignity of "human beings". This collection of novels attempts to salvage those glimmers of light that have sunk to the bottom of time, allowing readers to see that beyond the shadows of emperors and generals, there is another kind of history - about how ordinary people struggle, choose, shine or extinguish in the torrent of the times. There is a whole universe hidden in every humble life.