Chronicles of Fu Yuan: Yan Ling Erosion Code

The original intention of writing "Chronicles of Fu Yuan: The Code of Yan Ling Erosion" was to ask a simple but heavy question: Is civilization illuminated by symbols, or is it trapped by symbols? The first time I became obsessed with "symbols" was when I visited a prehistoric rock painting site. Those rough lines - an arc representing the wind, a circle symbolizing the sun - were so simple and clumsy, but they made me instantly stunned: How did people thousands of years ago think of using a notch to fix the "wind that cannot be grasped" and the "light that cannot be retained"? This is not a record, but a "fight for the right to define the world" - using human consciousness to label chaotic nature. Later, this idea gradually grew: If symbols are the "first brick" of civilization, will they become the "first lock"? When notches become laws, when definitions become absolutes, will civilization lose its original flexibility and curiosity in the pursuit of order? As a result, the world of "Fu Yuan" gradually became clear: there were the "first traces" that carved the first light on the rock wall, there were the "people of the light" who turned symbols into tools of rule, there were small ethnic groups who secretly learned knowledge in the cracks and guarded their own traces, and there was the black rod-shaped object that hid an older secret. Lan in the book is not a hero, but an ordinary person who "doesn't want to be defined." What he is fighting against is not a certain person, but the rigid thinking of "symbols are truth" - he secretly learns the technology of "Xiguang" but does not accept its laws; he protects the symbols of the group but does not reject external wisdom. This kind of struggle of "neither blind obedience nor closedness"