In the deep palace, the spring scenery remains the same year after year, but people's names are erased page by page.
The female official Xie Hanzhang was ordered to take stock of the old palace archives and revise the concubine's life. She originally thought that the files only needed to be filled in with dates and omissions, until she saw the lives that had been gently rewritten among the fragments, relics and traces of the palace.
Shen Chunyao was once responsible for remembering everyone, but in his later years he gradually forgot the most unforgettable people; Jiang Heng was like a hidden needle, silently running through the entire harem; Wen Zhaomian guarded a crooked palace, knowing that everything was collapsing, but still trying to let everyone live in peace for one more day.
There are no shocking conspiracies here, and there are no absolutely evil people. There is only one normal process, one gentle concession after another, a group of people who have saved each other, but ultimately cannot save each other.
"Spring Is Not Recorded" writes about how the harem has become a graveyard of memory, and also about how people strive to leave the last page before they are swallowed up by the system: for those who cannot write down or remember everything, but who have truly lived.
Purpose: "Spring Is Not Recorded" uses the inventory and revision of old files in the deep palace as a clue to write about the fate of women swallowed up by the system, time and forgetfulness. The work does not focus on the outcome of fierce palace battles, but focuses on how people are slowly rewritten and worn out in the long order, and how they support each other and preserve memories in a limited situation. The novel attempts to express: A person's life should not only be defined by power, identity and ending. Those traces of love, patience, sacrifice and existence that have not been officially recorded are also worthy of being seen and remembered.