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"Fist" begins with a deep-seated martial arts legend and several passionate campus martial arts competitions. The ignorant young man embarks on an unknown journey to find the master - the anonymous teahouse master, the innocent and honest young girl, the mysterious Zen Master Wenhai, who is the invincible martial arts master? Which one is stronger, Chinese martial arts or Western boxing? Which one is more important, the strength in the hands or the strength in the heart? In the end, an unexpected and reasonable competition was staged... "Spring Mountain" and "Fist", one text and one martial art, one ancient and one modern, imbued the author's nostalgia and aftertaste of youth, friendship, era, hometown, and thinking and understanding of the mystery of martial arts, traditional culture, and life choices.

American Sinologist Yuwen Changan (Stephen King) obtained a incomplete manuscript from his 90-year-old uncle and monk Simon. It was brought back to Europe from China by missionaries more than two hundred years ago and is secretly hidden in the Paoletta Monastery in Portugal. Yuwen Changan invited He Dacao, a Chinese writer who is proficient in history, to decipher, revise and organize it together. After twelve years of research, the contents of the manuscript were finally restored: From the ruins of the Ming Empire, missionaries rescued a girl whose eyes were burned out. After hiding her name for forty-five years, she finally spoke. She claimed to be Zhu Zhu, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Chongzhen, and dictated a secret history of the late Ming Dynasty to the young historian Ji Liuqi. The late Ming Dynasty was a mysterious era, and Chongzhen was the most mysterious and tragic last emperor. The politics are dark and terrifying, but the culture is dazzling, and the situation inside and outside the Forbidden City is turbulent. Chongzhen ascended the throne at the age of seventeen. He was endowed with great talent but had bad luck. From the perspective of her daughter, Zhu Zhu presents the story of her father's capture of Wei Zhongxian in the royal garden, the secret meeting with Li Zicheng in Fahua Temple, the black cat disaster in the palace, and the resurrection of the late emperor's relics... The details are vivid and thrilling, revealing the inside story of the collapse of the empire. The story is engaging, both readable and profound. The language is especially beautiful and colorful, and it is integrated with the times, stories and characters, forming a rich and sad elegy.

Nowadays, the process of urbanization has brought us to a particularly embarrassing situation. Massive population migration and flows are pouring into more developed areas. The Chinese people's agricultural mentality of living on one-third of an acre for thousands of years has collapsed. Young people have fled and exported themselves as labor force. The metabolism of the city is based on this, like a huge magnet, sucking all kinds of people into the operation of machinery. Everyone can get what they need and realize their own value. This is naturally ideal, but in reality there is often no cake waiting for you to share - this is the cruelty of the city, which attracts people but leaves them to fend for themselves.

"Spring Mountain" vividly reproduces the poet Wang Wei's later life, his daily life and complex emotions with Pei Di, his interactions with one or two friends, and his unknown inner world. Poetry and Zen are the two keys to explore Wang Wei's inner universe. They wrap Wang Wei's heart and make it shine with poetic and philosophical light, through which life is nourished, integrated and sublimated. This is also a window into the journey of Chinese literati through historical hardships.