My Years Restoring Cultural Relics at the Palace Museum

An ancient bell tolls before dawn. To the world, ghosts and gods are mere superstition, but sometimes the things right before our eyes are the most deceptive. A melody that separates yin from yang rings out, revealing a dream buried in a thousand years of history. As they transmigrate through ancient tombs and old mansions, long-hidden secrets begin to show their true faces. Heaven gave us eyes so we would see only the light we are meant to see, and forget that the things we most need to understand are hidden in the darkness. With an eye carved from a pupil-shaped jade stone forged in the flames of the underworld, what will be seen beyond the farthest reaches of the dark: the fall of a god, or the legend of an era? Porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, woodwork from the Song, goldwork from the Yuan, stonework from the Ming, and bronze vessels from the Qing. Behind every dynasty lie truths unknown, and to find the source of those truths, we must begin with those ancient artifacts