Bangkok Broken Porcelain

On a rainy night in Bangkok's Chinatown, antique restorer Lin Yan found half a fragment of a Tang Dynasty tricolor engraved with Naga snake patterns among her grandfather's belongings. Her grandfather's last words before his death, "Find the Buddhist shrine and see the light of the Fallen and the Luo", drew her into a cultural puzzle-solving journey that spans thousands of years. There are tiny Sanskrit inscriptions hidden under the glaze layer of the fragments, which are mutually corroborated with the fragmentary pages of Tang Dynasty craftsman Li Yue's notes held by Champa, a researcher at the National Museum of Thailand. It was in 725 AD, when the Tang Dynasty Luo Kingdom mission visited the Tang Dynasty with gold leaf shells. Using the fragments as keys, the two traveled between the old teahouses in Chinatown, the Lotus Pond Pagoda at Long Lien Temple and the shipwreck site in the Gulf of Thailand. The secrets of the "Mao Nam" in the logbook, the mechanism behind the stone carvings in the underground palace, and the conspiracy of the Black Snake Society to covet the Buddhist niche gradually revealed the truth: the Buddhist niche is a detachable mortise and tenon treasure box, and the six fragments correspond to the code of the integration of Tang and Luo cultures. When the last fragment was put together in the underground palace of Longlian Temple, the blue light reflected the communication map drawn by Narayan and Li Yue, and the thousand-year covenant reappeared in the world. This investigation using porcelain as a matchmaker not only uncovered the dusty history of friendship between ancient countries, but also made the fireworks of Chinatown and the belief in cross-cultural protection become the warmest footnote to the reunion of broken porcelain.