The Shadow of the Star River from the Summer Soil to the Clear Sky

"Shadows of Stars and Rivers from Summer Soil to Clear Sky" is a "time and space dual chronology" novel that spans four thousand years. It uses twenty-four "bamboo slips" as its warp and twenty-four "star maps" as its latitude, juxtaposing the rise and fall of each Chinese dynasty with the great changes taking place on the earth at the same moment - from the clay tablets in the Mesopotamia and the obelisks on the banks of the Nile to the sacrifices of Mayan priests and the dragon heads of Nordic longships - under the same starry sky. Each volume has an "Eastern Star" as its eye: The first star shines in the first fire of Xiaxu bronze, which illuminates the final collapse of the Minoan palace in Crete; The twelfth star hangs in the sea of Lantern Festival lanterns in Chang'an during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, simultaneously reflecting the confrontation between the translation pen and the astrolabe in the "Wisdom Palace" in Baghdad; The 20th Star sailed into the Indian Ocean with the dragon flag of the Yongle treasure ship, and at the same time heard the echo of the cannon of Constantinople cracking the thousand-year-old city wall. The novel does not have a single protagonist, but there are people everywhere - the shaman who made the tripod, the princess who got married, the Sogdian merchants who crossed the desert, the Kunlun slaves who traveled with the monsoon, the Jesuits who drew the first world map in the West... Their breaths were strung together by the same interstellar wind, leaving invisible but tangible tracks on the star map. When the last "Eastern Star" fell in the dark night of the late Qing Dynasty, readers will look back and find that the rise and fall of all dynasties and the life and death of all civilizations are just the waves rising and falling in the same long river of time - and that river continues to flow.