"Sharing the Swallow's Tail Ridge" is a realistic online novel that crosses the strait and integrates memories. Chen Yu'an, a young Taiwanese architect, found a yellowed notebook among his grandfather's belongings, which guided him to Quanzhou, Fujian, to find the ancient red brick "Qiming Hall" in the memories of his ancestors. At the same time, Lin Sirong, a restorer of ancient buildings in mainland China, is campaigning to protect this century-old building that is on the verge of being demolished. The two met in an ancient house, and from the initial misunderstanding and conflict, they gradually understood each other's persistence in family memory and cultural inheritance.
In the process of jointly exploring the history of the ancient house, they accidentally discovered a guestbook from the 1937 Songhu Battle, which recorded the memories of teachers and students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait who stayed here for a short time during the Anti-Japanese War. The ancient house was used as a temporary wounded military station during the war years, carrying a shared history buried by time. While Chen Yu'an and Lin Sirong were restoring the building, they also gradually uncovered the past of their lost ancestors and the unfinished promise of "seeing each other again."
The novel uses the collision of the concepts of "restoring the old as before" and "revitalizing and utilizing" as the narrative tension, and uses an ancient house and a guestbook as clues to connect the common historical memories and cultural bloodlines of both sides of the Taiwan Strait. When the ancient house faced a real crisis of commercial development, the two worked together to fight, and finally revitalized the ancient house into a cultural space that connected the emotions and memories of both sides of the Taiwan Strait, allowing the eighty-year-old covenant to be completed under the red brick ridge.
The work integrates family narratives, memories of the Anti-Japanese War, intangible cultural heritage protection and cross-Strait emotions. It writes about the growth and resonance of a generation in the process of repairing history and tracing the roots, echoing the theme of the times of integrated development across the Taiwan Straits and the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture.
