The Light Follows the Sun

"Deng Follows Kaiyang" is an epic novel with "Lamp" as its soul, spanning the Three Kingdoms and the Southern Song Dynasty. The narrative begins when Zhuge Liang is about to die in Wuzhangyuan. The copper lamp that is repeatedly blown away and back by the autumn wind has become a spiritual image that has lasted for thousands of years. The main body of the narrative incarnates Liu Chan, the later leader of the Shu Han Dynasty, and Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, successively in the way of soul time travel. It unfolds simultaneously on two historical lines: on the one hand, when the Shu Han Dynasty overthrew, Jiang Wei's military report, Fei Yi's government affairs, Jiang Wan's grain road, Dong Yun The palace ban continued under the lamp the format of the Four March Army report left by Zhuge Liang; on the other side was during Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, when the edict of "Just fight" was sent from Lin'an to Yancheng, and the "accurate" and "quick" approvals crossed the Qinling Mountains and arrived at the gate of Huanglongfu City. The novel uses extremely restrained object narrative to construct a historical texture - the polished corners of the bamboo slips, the format of military reports that always have only four lines, and the pause that spans thousands of years in the last stroke of the edict. The people under the lamp have changed from generation to generation, but the shape of the lamp flame has not changed. There are dozens of blank pages on the rubbings between "How soon will we be restored" and "Recovered", and also separated by a period that is thousands of years late. This lamp was passed down from Wuzhangyuan to Lin'an, and from extinguishing to rekindling, what it illuminates is not only one person's persistence, but also how the fire continues to flow through time.