Legend of Canglan

Chen Lan (nicknamed "Cang Lan"): the protagonist of this book. Born as a young man in a fishing village in Quanzhou, he is naturally proficient in tidal hydrology and has the talent of having a photographic memory of nautical charts. His character has gradually grown from being tolerant and paranoid and bent on revenge in the early stage to being decisive and strategic, emphasizing love and justice, and finally transformed into a guardian of the sea who cares about the common people and is broad-minded, and has been with the sea his whole life. It describes the struggle of human nature, the weight of friendship and the righteousness of family and country in the turbulent waves of the angry sea, and shows the magnificent picture of the Eastern Ocean and the transformation of individual minds in the Age of Discovery.