Sending Off the King Ship

[This book won the Golden Qimao Award in the Fifth Qimao Realist Fiction Contest]

[Print publication deal signed with Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House]

Beneath blue skies and over a blue sea, the ancient Sending Off the Royal Ship ceremony embodies people's reverence for and gratitude to the ocean.

The novel follows its two protagonists, Tao Siyan and Lin Cixiao, as they strive to uphold and pass on this distinctive maritime cultural heritage amid the tides of modern society. As they explore the historical significance of the Sending Off the Royal Ship ceremony, they encounter all kinds of people, from the "ship's-keeper folk" who preserve tradition to merchants pursuing modernization. Gradually, they come to understand that the ceremony is not only an expression of reverence for the sea god, but also a profound hymn to life and nature.