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This book is carefully woven from six short stories. It is based on in-depth mythological/historical research results, uses the "six touches" of human senses - eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind as the framework, uses strange imagination as the driving force, and uses the unique "Zhu language" as the writing style. It dramatically describes six Chinese folk mysterious industries - illusion, mourning, incense, poison testing, bone touching and calligraphy, revealing many mysteries buried deep in the depths of traditional Chinese culture. The book combines history, legend, mythology and modern imagination. The story is magical and strange, the fate of the characters is lamentable, and the writing language is rich in poetry, providing contemporary readers with a new literary experience.

A lonely city-state in the tropical rainforest of Central America, a song of love and death that blends myth and fable. The novel was written by mythologist Zhu Dake over a period of eight years. Selected as one of the top ten best books of 2022 by Asia Weekly. In the tropical rainforest of Central America at the end of the 17th century, a mysterious tribe from the "Yin Di" thrived here for three thousand years and evolved into a circular city "Tizok" that was independent from the world and driven by a perpetual motion machine. It survived under the rule of the high priest. Quetzalcoatl uses his earthly incarnation as a family that spreads love, and through the miracles of birth and death, tries to save this self-rotating lonely city-state and help it escape the fate of tyranny and destruction. In the novel, the origin of American culture is defined as ancient Chinese civilization, which is full of allegorical qualities.