Three Xuzhou high school students with completely different personalities and talents entered the Xuzhou Han Portrait Stone Art Museum in order to complete a research presentation on "letting peers understand Chinese culture."
It was originally just an ordinary research assignment, but because of a wisp of wet earth, burnt grain, and pepper orchid ancient fragrance that should not appear in the exhibition hall, it completely fell into the sealed memory layer on the stone.
This is a virtual and real world constructed by the relics of the Han Dynasty in Xuzhou: Han portrait stones, Han terracotta warriors and horses, and the Chu royal tombs are transformed into real spaces that can be stepped into. Well-documented history will be embodied in pictures and landforms, while fabrications without historical data will only turn into empty stone surfaces and boundless gray fog.
A'luo, a young memory keeper, guides the three people to slowly explore the truth. However, Mo Shi, the eclipse of history, presses on step by step and quickly completes the history with the most complete and curious "standard answers": filling in famous generals for empty warriors, secret doors for empty mausoleums, kings of Chu for ancient chariots and horses, and forcibly weaving the scattered remains of the Han Dynasty into a very impactful secret history of the restoration of the king of Chu.
This is a game between a boy and historical fallacies. Those who think they interpret history will eventually be punished by history.
Faced with the danger of companions and incomplete history of the Han Dynasty, who is the final winner?
From the carriages and horses paying homage to the stone portraits, to the array coordinates of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, to the wear marks on the stone in the Chu King's Mausoleum, to the folk cattle plowing and weaving, to the music and dance to control the water... Questions, conclusions, known and unknown, how will they make a decision in the end?
Purpose: Inheritance is not the only answer to fill in all the gaps in history, nor to seal tradition as unchangeable. The true feelings of family and country not only cherish the princely etiquette, military formation system, mausoleum engineering, daily labor and spiritual imagination left two thousand years ago, but also are willing to take responsibility for the evidence, leave space for the unknown, and retain the entrance for those who come after us to continue to observe and create. The vitality of Chinese culture's inclusiveness and constant self-improvement is sustained through reliable viewing, verification, revision and contemporary expression.