"The Moon Descends in the South" takes the thousand-year secret history of the Yunnan region as its latitude and longitude, and connects a series of legends from Nanzhao to the late Ming Dynasty. The story begins with the bronze ceremony of the Mengshe imperial edict on the shores of Erhai Lake. The will-o'-the-wisp in the middle of the night leads to the bloody oath of unifying the six imperial edicts in Piro Pavilion; the sound of jade rabbits pounding medicine on the top of the Mingyue Mountain, the Li Peng village beside the ancient tea horse road, and the ancient tea-sacrifice trees bear witness to the century-old contract between man and the mandrill. The novel deconstructs the historical folds in a strange way, allowing the emerald curse of Nanzhao's crown, the story of the Yinghuo Star of the Yuan Dynasty postman, and the corpse-scented konjac secreted by the chieftain to wake up one after another in the mist of Dianchi Lake soaked in moonlight. Each story is based on the inscriptions of western Yunnan, the Bimo Sutra in Yi script, and the legends of mountain ghosts passed down orally, creating a universe of Yunnan's strange creatures that is more bizarre than "Liao Zhai" and more majestic than "Youyang Zazu".
Purpose: Taking the thousand-year secret history of Yunnan as the latitude and longitude, it connects a series of legends from Nanzhao to the late Ming Dynasty.