The Ancient Tree, Then and Now

A ginkgo tree spirit over three thousand years old swore an oath to the Heavenly Way and was reborn inside Gu Changqing, who was born in 1960. Living as Gu Changqing, he entered the home of a poor farming family. He experienced the innocence of first love and endured the grief of losing loved ones and the pain of parting. Amid the everyday bustle of human life, he felt its joys and sorrows, its laughter and tears. Only when every attachment had faded did he understand: what the Heavenly Way had sent him to overcome was never the passage of time, but life itself.