Platform of Ember

"The Platform of Ember" The country is like ashes, but the people's hearts are not cold. On the grand stage, the remaining fire is still warm. In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Yonghe, the prince Chen Wuqing was tired of the court and left the palace incognito. At the end of the field, he met a poor man who was leading a cow with bare feet. He tilted his head and asked him: "Are you..." That man is Kening - a poor man, neither humble nor arrogant; illiterate, but able to understand the simplest principles in the world; unable to plow, but taught the prince what "living" means. A bowl of porridge, a pair of insoles, and a white wolf tooth that has been passed down for three generations. In the small courtyard in the south of the town, someone left a light for him, and someone was waiting for his return. Above the court hall, he walked from the field to the household department. From a barefoot poor boy to a man marking the exit of the Wolf Road, he followed his father's unfinished map and extended the trade road from Yanmen Pass to the end of the Qilian Mountains. From the crown prince to the new emperor, Chen Wuqing kept the motto of "Don't be greedy, don't kill, don't rob, don't rape" at the top of power, and he also guarded the man who tilted his head to look at him at the end of the field. --- "Ode to Leaving Winter" and "The Return": Poems of the Concubine Mother "The coming of spring is not my spring, and the winter solstice is not my winter." Yan Dongqi spent his whole life writing these two poems. She is the princess of Jin Kingdom, the mother of three sons, and a woman who has been waiting deep inside the palace wall for half her life. She taught her daughter to write poems and taught her son to be silent. Before her death, she burned all her old manuscripts, leaving only "The Journey Back". Hidden in the poem is the unspoken understanding of her husband, the unexpressed love for her sons, and the final entrustment to Leng Xilan, the sister who is also trapped in the palace wall. --- The embers are not yet cold: the temperature of the dark line Leng Xilan, the late emperor's concubine, adopted a barbarian orphan. She taught him how to write, sent him back to the grassland, and then waited in the deep palace for half his life. She put insoles for him and buried the wolf's teeth under the wintersweet tree. She only wrote two words in her last letter: "Keep the seeds." Mangujin Lansi, the barbarian Khan, planted the wintersweet seed on the grassland. The national gifts he gave to the Kingdom of Jin were not gold and silver, but stones from the Qilian Mountains and autumn flowers from the grasslands. He said to Aguchi: "The wintersweet has never been planted on the grassland. Give it a try. If it doesn't bloom next year, plant it again the year after." Chen Pingqing and Chen An, twin brothers, one is the second prince who failed in the competition for the throne, and learned to repair the wall under the city wall of Yanmen Pass; the other is Leng Xilan's student, planting locust trees on the Yellow River embankment, and using silence to complete the journey that his mother and concubine have not finished. --- Porridge in the pot: the background of the return journey From the end of the field ridge to Qianyuan Hall, from Zhennan Xiaoyuan to Jiayu Guguan, Kening would leave a bowl of porridge on the stove every step he took. Every time Chen Wuqing came back and opened the door, the porridge on the stove was always warm. This is not a story about power. This is a story about the road - Ke Yuefeng spent his whole life drawing maps, but could not complete the exit of Wolf Road; Han Sui guarded the border for 28 years, and when he left office, he said, "The trade road is open, and my life has not been in vain"; He Lanrong repaired the last section of the city wall of Yanmen Pass, and his son continued to guard it; Yan Dongqi wrote in the poem "When I return, my temples are covered with frost, and I have not given up on the long journey", and her sons continued to go. The embers are the remaining fire. On the grand stage, people's hearts are not cold. Porridge is in the pot. The road stretches. Concept: Concept of "The Stage of Ember" The one who is burning is the remaining fire; the one who is flourishing is the pinnacle of power. This novel is set on the stage of the fictional dynasty "Jin Country", with the love between the prince Chen Wuqing and the poor boy Kening across class and gender as the axis, and explores an essential proposition - whether people can still maintain their sincerity under the shackles of imperial power, feuds, and gender taboos. Every character in the story is a "Jhin". The emperor burned his whole life to devote his life to the country, the imperial concubine turned his emotions into poems, the loser lurked in the dark waiting for rekindling, and the taboo buried his love deep in his heart and never spoke. On the grand stage, power burns people like a blazing fire; among the embers, people's hearts are not cold. The work describes a group of individual souls struggling in the torrent of the times, suppressed but never truly extinguished - they are burned by fate, but in their own way they guard the last glimmer of light in their hearts.