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"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen, a literati in the Qing Dynasty. The first half of the book describes the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat, including their experiences in the Daughter Country, the Junzi Country, the Wuchang Country and other countries. The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's imperial examination to select talented girls, Tang Xiaoshan, who was entrusted by Baihua Fairy, and one hundred talented girls entrusted by other flower fairies who passed the exam and made a difference in the court. His magical and humorous creative techniques are based on classics, and he cleverly outlines a gorgeous color picture of the heavenly wheel.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen, a literati in the Qing Dynasty. When Wu Zetian was in power, the scholar Tang Ao was frustrated in his official career and went to sea with his wife's uncle Lin Zhiyang, traveling to more than 40 countries. In the country of gentlemen, the people wear swords and are willing to be modest; in the Republic of Bai, all of them are handsome and elegant, but in fact they are uneducated in arts; in the country of girls, men wear skirts backwards to attend to domestic affairs, and women wear boots and hats backwards to attend to foreign affairs; after experiencing various strange things, Tang Ao finally realized something and escaped into Penglai, a fairy mountain... The author used imaginary overseas stories to ridicule current events and embody ideals. The structure is similar to " "Gulliver's Travels", in which the section on the Kingdom of Women was praised by Hu Shi as an immortal text in the history of world feminism; the three characters in the book, Tang Ao, Lin Zhiyang, and Duo Jiugong, have distinct personalities, and their dialogues and plots are often witty and humorous. The author is erudite and talented, and he also shows knowledge of various classical entertainments in the novel. Lu Xun classified him as "a scholar in the Qing Dynasty who showed his talents through novels." "Flower Through the Mirror" is a very special and carefully written classic among Chinese classical novels.

"Flower in the Mirror" is a long fantasy novel from the Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of Tang Ao and his party traveling overseas by boat. During the journey, they visited different countries and experienced various adventures. These countries are all reflections of various phenomena in reality, such as the daughter country where the status of men and women is completely reversed, the heartless country where the rich are unkind, the hypocritical and cunning two-faced country, etc. The author presents the various social issues of his own era, the values ​​he advocates, and the good and evil in human nature in a symbolic and exaggerated way, making it both fresh and interesting to read, and also thoughtful. Therefore, some people compare this book to "Gulliver's Travels in the East".

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen in the Qing Dynasty. It was written during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years. The book has a total of 100 chapters. It is set in the era of Wu Zetian and tells the story of the Baihua Fairy in the sky and the flowers under her control. Because they followed the orders of the Emperor Wu Zetian and bloomed against time, they were demoted to the mortal world to experience. The first half of the novel mainly describes the story of Baihua Fairy's father, the scholar Tang Ao, who failed in the imperial examination and traveled to sea with his wife's brother Lin Zhiyang and the helmsman Duo Jiugong. During his travels, Tang Ao found the descendants of Xu Jingye, King Luo Bin and other loyal ministers who were exiled overseas because of their participation in the crusade against Wu Zetian. He also recorded his experiences in dozens of strange countries overseas. These descriptions of the country of girls, the country of gentlemen, foot binding, female imperial examinations, etc., Use bizarre customs to satirize various institutional ills of real society, showing the author's conception of an ideal society and his in-depth thinking about the real world. The brilliance of his thoughts far surpassed the era in which he lived. It is a pity that the second half of the work switches to the description of the group of talented women descended from the Fairy of Hundreds of Flowers, which is completely reduced to the author's work showing off his skills. It is almost a long display of drinking orders, lantern riddles, Shuanglu, algorithms, rhymes, etc.