Cultural Relics Judgment

In the ancient city of Yuezhou in the south of the Yangtze River, the shadow of cultural relics crime is hidden between the old and the new. Su Yan, a former restorer of ancient books and now an independent antique appraiser, was hired by the Municipal Bureau as a special consultant on cultural relics crime because of his special acumen of sensing historical fragments by touching antiquities. Wearing an improved gown made in the Song Dynasty and carrying a bamboo restoration tool box, she uses antiquities as blades and history as passwords to solve a series of murder cases surrounding the theft, forgery, and smuggling of cultural relics. The theft of a celadon vase from an official kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty led to the mysterious death of an antique master. The conspiracy in the secret room hides the millennium wisdom of the mortise and tenon mechanism and the ice-edge needle; the cinnabar ink of the Ming Dynasty hides the highly toxic "trailer" of the Song Dynasty; behind the academic fraud is the black industry chain of cross-border smuggling Fragments of blue and white porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty are involved in an old murder case that has been sealed for eighteen years, and the inscription with the word "hub" points to an unknown treasure from the Yuan Dynasty... Every ancient object carries an unknown story of the past life, and every murder case is intertwined with the greed and obsession of human nature. Relying on the mechanical skills, knowledge of ancient prescriptions and meticulous logic found in ancient books, Su Yan shuttled between the old houses of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the modern CBD, and unraveled the cocoons of cultural relics whose authenticity was difficult to distinguish. Not only does she have to fight against the new criminal model of "traditional counterfeiting + online selling of stolen goods", but she also has to uncover the mystery of her father's death and face her own trauma and weakness in the process of pursuing the truth. The ancient objects are silent, but each word hides its edge; the cold blade cuts through the fog and finally sees the light of day. This is a pursuit of justice using cultural relics as a medium, and it is also a redemption journey to salvage the truth from the dust of history.