In Zhangzhou, Shen Qingwu, the daughter of a merchant, was obsessed with woodblock prints. However, the woman's "knife and chiseling" was considered deviant in the eyes of the world, so she was forced to put down the carving knife and pick up the embroidery needle.
During a spring temple fair, Xian Wang Zhao Linyuan was so impressed by the birds she carved with her sword that he forced her to marry him into the palace. During those years in the palace, he broke her wings and destroyed her carving knife.
When King Xian died suddenly, she carefully planned a fake death by "throwing herself into a lake" in exchange for freedom for the rest of her life. Incognito and using the pseudonym "Mr. Mu", she picked up the carving knife she put down when she was young. This time she held the knife for her dream.
From the Jiangnan Painting Market to the palace secret collection, her paintings were eagerly sought after, but no one knew that the person holding the knife was a "dead" princess.
King Duan, who didn't like her at first but helped her escape and kept her pursuers in the dark, built a tomb after he ascended the throne. Thousands of years later, when archaeologists opened the tomb, they found woodblock prints all over the room whispering:
"Let the flowers become flowers and the trees become trees."
Intention: Let flowers become flowers and trees become trees.