[Anti-type historical time travel｜Real historical figures｜Slow-burn textual research｜Traditional narrative]
In the second year of Yongle, modern man Zhou Mingyuan traveled through time and became a candidate for the exam.
He had read "History of the Ming Dynasty", and he knew that Zheng He's treasure ship would eventually sail away and decay, he knew that Xie Jin would die in the snow, he knew that the "Yongle Dadian" would eventually be lost, and he knew that the three major palaces would be reduced to ashes in thunder and fire.
He also knew that the rise and fall of a dynasty was irreversible, and he changed nothing.
He just opened an empty yellow book and used an inkstone with a missing corner to write in the names of those who would not be named in the official history: the farmers who plowed the fields, the defeated soldiers who lost their fingers, the craftsmen who inspected silk, the students who stopped after copying the word "oyster"... One by one.
From the Nanjing Gongyuan in the second year of Yongle, to the mountain breeze in Guilin in the tenth year of Xuande; from a dried rice dumpling leaf with traces of glutinous rice, to a wisp of cyan silk thread drawn from the mother's sleeve, thirty-one years of official career, a book full of names. When the cracks on the tea pot finally cracked, the yellow book in the sky became a family letter that has been passed down for six hundred years, and the family ancestral hall and family motto still stand in Dujia'ao, Baoji... He proved this sentence: While I am alive, he is not dead.
[Reading Tips]
· Rong Shan is a real historical figure. He became a Jinshi in the second year of Yongle and became the chief envoy of Guangxi. His family motto is still preserved in the Rong Family Ancestral Hall in Baoji.
· This article is not a cool article, the rhythm is steady, and the object-image system runs through the whole book. It is suitable for readers who prefer in-depth reading and hard-core textual research.
· Each of the five people in the same year has a complete arc of destiny, and the people at the bottom are presented in multiple ways
Purpose: This article, through the perspective of time traveler Rong Shan, tells the story of a real historical figure who chose to "remember" rather than "change" under the pressure of a grand narrative. Trying to explore: When individual power cannot change the historical structure, is "remembering" itself a kind of resistance that can penetrate time?
