Moonlight Over the Song Dynasty

I used to think that the best online novels about the Song Dynasty were the best, but six years later, I haven't found anything better.

It's a work from ten years ago. I read it once; the writing is okay, but there's too much personal bias, and I disagree with some of the author's views.

There were always some shortcomings. When we went to Quanzhou, we managed to defeat so many bandits with ten older children. Keep in mind that at that close range, a bow and arrow could only fire two waves at most, and that required extremely skilled archers.

I wouldn't have abandoned this book if it weren't for its excessive and unbearable eulogy to Su Shi. The humanity of people from a thousand years ago was less refined compared to those of today. It's not that they weren't kind, but cannibalism was widespread during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Five Barbarian Invasions, and even earlier, during the Shang, Zhou, and Spring and…

After reading over a hundred chapters, I found too much personal bias, and the worst part is that it's all childish or even idiotic. These are the kinds of rumors that even public intellectuals from ten years ago wouldn't dare to continue spreading, yet the author is still huffing and puffing them into the book.

It would have been better if the author hadn't mentioned Su Shi's apprenticeship. Su Dongpo's official career was akin to Li Yu's reign as emperor, and his personal moral character was suppressed by his contemporaries Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. Without his academic credentials as a stepping stone to the imperial examinations, there was really no need to formally become his apprentice.

This is just random writing; some parts are pure nonsense and contain my own biases…

This is utterly disgusting, so incredibly licking... The author seems to think that some people are indifferent to the times, yet they themselves are oblivious. Does this author have masochistic tendencies? This article is toxic.

"Su Shi was once jealous of Liu Yong's popularity with women, while Liu Yong was genuinely jealous of Su Shi's popularity with women." The author is being too sycophantic, forcing a scene with Liu Yong—a man in his sixties vying for women with teenagers! Did the author even bother to Google it? When Liu Yong passed away, Su Shi was still working hard in Sichuan. This is so out of place, I'm dropping this book.

This book is worth reading multiple times. I really enjoyed reading it when it first came out. It introduces many customs of the Song Dynasty. It's quite interesting to read it as an admirer or appreciator of Su Shi, forgetting that I have studied history. To be honest, I really liked the line "After the Battle of Yamen, there was no more China."