Proclaiming Han

Qin, Han, Wei, Jin; Song, Qi, Liang, Chen. Three hundred years since the southward migration of the gentry, this is the final page of the legitimate Han dynasty. As great upheaval looms but has yet to arrive, a man who knows how the story ends opens his eyes on his sickbed in Changcheng County. He knows Taicheng will fall, and that this dynasty will perish after thirty-two years. He knows everything, yet can stop nothing. In his twilight years, his poetry will stir the rivers and passes. He insists on becoming that long-delayed spring in the rivers and passes of the dying age. “Proclaiming Han”: to proclaim is, first, to make known; second, to spread.