The Great Cheng Spring and Autumn Annals

A prince is inevitably drawn into conflicts over family, nation, politics, and human nature. He must navigate between his father and elder brother, his family and friends, and his enemies. He has to read his father’s intentions as he chooses between him and his eldest brother, keep his brothers’ suspicion and jealousy in check, and fend off attacks from every direction.

When his life hangs in the balance, should he fight with all he has or disappear into hiding? Who is a true friend? Is his father his protector? Is his elder brother his shield? Or is it the mysterious masked figure who always appears at the crucial moment?

Before foreign invasions, China had a brilliant culture, a thriving economy, enlightened politics, and an age when a hundred schools of thought contended.

People followed the Rites of Zhou and studied the Six Arts. They learned from masters such as Yuzi, Confucius, Laozi, and Guiguzi, and read the works of Mencius, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Xunzi, Guan Zhong, and Sunzi.

What would it have been like to live in that era?