Cheng Yan, who returned from studying abroad, reluctantly took over the family's old pawnshop "Gujinxuan" and scorned the "shabby copper and iron" in the house. Until one day, his finger was cut by a Song Dynasty paper-cut, and he instantly traveled back thousands of years - he witnessed folk artists swear an oath in blood and seal their lifelong obsessions in the paper-cut.
It turns out that what the Cheng family has been running for generations is not an ordinary pawn shop, but a memory door that guards the "blood spirit". Every intangible cultural heritage treasure stained with the painstaking efforts of the craftsmen seals the skills and soul that span time and space. The unruly Cheng Yan was forced to embark on the road of inheritance:
With a piece of embroidery, he witnessed four generations of embroiderers using needles and threads as swords to carve out the path to female independence in feudal ethics;
In a costume, he personally witnessed a famous actor singing the last song at the gunpoint of the Japanese army. The performance was more important than his life;
A stack of rice paper, he was involved in the skill game between Ming Dynasty craftsmen and Western missionaries. The paper contained the code for civilized dialogue;
With an oracle bone, he could understand the civilization gene engraved in Chinese characters - three thousand years of unbroken bloodline, all between horizontal and vertical strokes.
However, the tentacles of South Korea's chaebol are quietly approaching. Park Jae-hoon, a seemingly humble scholar, is actually a core member of a cultural theft organization. When Cheng Yan discovered that the other party could actually track the "blood spirit" items, a battle for intangible cultural heritage memories began...
Past and present intertwine, craftsmanship and intrigue collide.
The true inheritance is not to stick to the old things, but to let the thousands of years of memories be reborn in the contemporary blood.
Purpose: To use blood as a contract to protect the eternal fire of civilization for thousands of years.