The Rise and Fall of Wagang Village

"The Rise and Fall of Waganzhai" is a grand narrative that reconstructs Chinese history with a "fable of copycat power". The whole book uses Wagang Village as the image hub of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, starting from the foundation of the power logic of the "power village masters" in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, passing through the wars of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the collapse of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the heroic oaths of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, to the final chapter of the residual dream of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, spanning three thousand years of time and space. The work condenses the rise and fall of dynasties, the competition between heroes, and the transformation of systems into the cycle of power in a "Wagang Village": from abdication to hereditary inheritance, from revolution to etiquette, from reckless loyalty to imperial law, from martial spirit to civilized bureaucracy. When Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a glass of wine, the soul of Wagang's rivers and lakes finally disappeared into the dust of history, leaving only a deep elegy about power, humanity and civilization.