The Ups and Downs of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Between the Zhenguan and Kaiyuan years of the Tang Dynasty, a fire swept through Jiannan and destroyed the Jiedushi Palace. Eight-year-old Lin Yu fled to Chang'an with his wet nurse Cui Shanggong, carrying a broken pen and fragments of Shu brocade. From then on, he embarked on a legendary life to solve the mystery of his parents' death and inherit the "Ink Bone Spirit". The cracks on the broken pen holder, the hibiscus on the Sichuan brocade, and the farmland map carved by my father on the Hanging Temple together constitute the code of civilization that spans the Hu and Han Dynasties and connects Europe and Asia. The intrigues in the court, the beacons on the frontier, and the camel bells on the Silk Road are all intertwined in the ink fragrance of this broken pen.