The Soul Penetrates Wang Bo: I Wrote a Pen to Prove the Tao and Became a Literary Saint

Wang Zi'an, a Ph. D. In the Department of Modern Chinese and an expert in parallel prose, was electrocuted while studying "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" on the eve of his doctoral thesis defense. His soul returned to Hongzhou in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (675) and possessed Wang Bo, who was about to attend a banquet in Prince Teng's Pavilion. Carrying thousands of years of cultural memory and the soul of poetry from later generations, he originally wanted to change his fate against the will of heaven and save this talented poet from drowning at the age of twenty-six. Starting from the "Preface" written in Prince Teng's Pavilion, which shocked the world for nine days, he dealt with the turmoil of the political arena of the early Tang Dynasty - fighting wits with powerful officials such as Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, and walking a tightrope between Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu; he led the literary world, and was a neighbor of Yang Jiong and Lu Zhao He and King Luo Bin were also known as the "Four Heroes". He used parallel prose as a sword to eradicate the shortcomings of Qi and Liang's ostentation; he revived the Wang family in Taiyuan and revived the lintel in the gap between the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong gentry; he traveled across the mountains and rivers and wrote immortal chapters in the suffering of people's livelihood. However, as the secret volume of "Zhongshuo" left by his grandfather Wang Tong (Wen Zhongzi) was gradually revealed, Wang Bo discovered that his time travel was not accidental - the Wang family has guarded a secret about the "Wenmai Immortal World" for generations. The so-called "drowning" is actually the only way for the literary souls of the past dynasties to ascend to "Lingyan Wenyuan". In the end, in the storm of crossing the sea in Jiaozhi, he faced the ultimate choice: should he return to modern times as a time traveler and become famous, or should he inherit Wang Bo's fate and be lost in the long river of history with a piece of "Crossing the Sea", transforming into the fairyland and becoming a soul lamp that will never go out in the Chinese context? This is an epic about talent and destiny, individuals and the long river, immortality and eternity.