From Yao and Shun down to the Zhou and Qin dynasties, historical records have survived.
But prehistory, constrained by the limits of writing, is nearly a blank.
What exactly happened more than three thousand years before the Common Era?
Ten suns appeared in the sky, floods ran rampant, and the North Sea became a great abyss...
Where did the divine clan that saved this world time and again come from?
Tradition holds that Mayan culture began in 3114 BCE, when a prophet descended into the world and spread the prophecies of the "gods."
Yet the inscriptions on their Taiyin Mountain stele use Chinese characters. What status did prehistoric Huaxia truly hold?
On this winter solstice, the doomsday foretold by the Maya draws near, and the dark hand concealed within ancient mythology gradually reveals its immense form.
A sudden voice stirs to life in Ren Yifan's mind. Swept along by the wheel of history, his personal fate begins to turn...