Phoenix Comes Out of Datong

"Phoenix Out of Datong" - a thousand-year legend of the hometown of Chinese queens How could twenty-five queens come out of an ancient city in Yanbei? Opening this book is to uncover half of the hidden history of China's intertwined relations with imperial power. Datong, Shanxi Province, known as Pingcheng and Yunzhong in ancient times, was the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the companion capital of the Liao and Jin Dynasties, and an important town in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Everyone knows that this is the "Coal City", but few people know that it also has another name that is resounding throughout history - the Hometown of Queens. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, twenty-five queens and nine imperial concubines came out of this ancient city in Yanbei. Among them are a generation of female politicians who have controlled the government for decades and implemented Chinese reforms; a legendary mother of the country who was born in the grasslands and was famous for her virtue; and a tragic beauty who struggled in the whirlpool of power and eventually died. This book uses the queens who came out of Datong as its latitude and longitude, and uses the "phoenix pulse" as a metaphor - a line of women's power and destiny that runs through thousands of years - to connect the long historical scroll from Pingcheng in the Northern Wei Dynasty to Datong in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The takeoff of every "phoenix" corresponds to the rise and fall of a dynasty; the fall of every phoenix crown reflects the change of an era. This is not only a female legend, but also a historical non-fiction novel that uses women as an incision to re-examine Chinese imperial power politics and the rise and fall of foreign relatives. Core Selling Point 1. Unique regional legend: the first literary work to systematically write about the "Hometown of the Queen of Datong", filling a gap in the market. 2. An epic of power from a female perspective: twenty-five queens, twenty-five destinies, and twenty-five mirrors that reflect history.