Tiantai Sunrise New Sky Chronicles Volume 158

"Sunrise on the Rooftop" • The 158th volume of the mythological masterpiece "New Heaven" (a series of 168 novels), written by the outstanding contemporary Chinese novelist Zhou Jingfeng. Kong Lei, a descendant of Confucius, was born in the Confucian mansion on the eve of the troubled times. He was influenced by Confucianism since childhood and was literate and memorized scriptures. The war broke out, the Qin army marched eastward, the home was shattered, and his father died protecting the classics. He fled with his only copy of "The Analects" on his back, experienced hunger, cold, life and death, and witnessed the disaster of burning books. Confucianism and Taoism collided in troubled times. He learned benevolence on the ridge of the fields and kept the Tao in the wilderness. From a boy who kept a book to taking the exam to be the top scorer, an awakening about inheritance and change quietly unfolded.