Dan Hui Ji

"The Story of Danhui" is a realist epic rooted in the western Yunnan frontier in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. After the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the orphan girl A'nan and the clan's orphan Zhu Cixuan gave up the idea of ​​restoring the country and turned to guarding the spark of civilization with their ordinary bodies. They united the six ethnic groups of Han, Bai, Yi, Dai, Kachin and Shan to weave a classic book containing rituals and music, loyalty, farming and warfare, and medical divination into wedding dress patterns, folk song melodies, pottery urn inscriptions, hunting knife atlases, Buddhist scriptures, and nursery rhyme prescriptions. There are no miracles or heroes in the book, only weaver girls threading needles, boys holding urns, farmers diverting canals, and monks chanting sutras - civilization is not in temples, but in people's hearts. Twenty-one years of passing on the fire from generation to generation has finally made "the tripod is in the Tao, and the Tao is in the human heart" become a daily practice. The novel reveals the most tenacious way for the survival of Chinese civilization in a calm way: not relying on secrets, but relying on integration; not seeking to leave a name in history, but to keep the fire forever. The last sentence of the chapter, "As long as the hearts of the people do not die, China will not perish", which can be regarded as an eternal motto.