This Is Not a Bad Sound

The rooster crows, get up and practice your sword! At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, two young men, Liu Kun and Zu Ti, heard the chicken dance and vowed to be heroes in troubled times. One played the bamboo flute to drive away the enemy and defended Bingzhou alone, while the other attacked the enemy and vowed to restore the Central Plains. At that time, Luoyang was still a paradise on earth: the Jingu Garden of the wealthy Shi Chong played music every night, "Jia Mi's twenty-four friends" composed poems over wine, and Liu Kun was the brightest star in the garden. But under heaven, there are twenty-seven vassal kings sharpening their swords. As soon as the Rebellion of the Eight Kings started, the big machine of the Western Jin Dynasty collapsed. The Huns' iron cavalry trampled through the mountains and rivers, leaving bones and mourning everywhere. Liu Kun experienced many ups and downs in his life: he had clung to powerful people and was also a "fool"; he played a tune of Hujia to defeat hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and he also lost his parents because of his mistrust of villains; he climbed to the top of power, but finally died at the hands of his allies. This is the tragedy of the two Jin Dynasties where intrigue, passion and desolation are intertwined. There is no golden finger, no time travel, just a group of real people struggling to survive in troubled times. The idiom "Dance upon hearing the chicken" only captures the best frame of their lives. The rest are all series.