The First Year of Jinsha

"The First Year of Jinsha" is a novel that cleverly combines the urban fireworks of Chengdu with the mysterious heritage of ancient Shu civilization. Cheng Nian, a young man who sells baked egg cakes on Yulin Road, accidentally triggered a strange ability because of a Hanyuan peppercorn - he could "taste" three thousand years of memories sealed in food. From a well water to a green pepper, from a bowl of tea to a piece of tofu, he followed the clues of the sun bird gold foil unearthed from the Jinsha site, and unlocked the twelve coordinates scattered in the streets of Chengdu one by one. He saw the same ancient Shu observer planting the first pepper plant on the slope, spreading salt on the altar, and carving a water level mark in the center of the river. The twelve coordinates are connected into a ring, but an opening is deliberately left in the south direction, pointing to the unfinished Xinglong Lake. The thirteenth coordinate is not a location, but a person - the bloodline of the observer, which is the letter left to the future by the ancient Shu people. The novel combines the three main lines of "Fireworks in the World", "Ancient Treasures of Shu" and "Cyber ​​Tianfu", and builds a believable fantasy world with accurate details and taste descriptions of Chengdu. It asks: In what form will civilization continue? Is the essence of guardianship to be sealed or passed on? What the ancient Shu people observed was not prophecy, but expectation - the expectation that there would still be people seriously savoring life after four thousand years. The sun bird has not flown away, it is in the egg cake and in the mouth of everyone who eats seriously.