The opening poem is "Nian Yong Huai" written by Yu Xin, a scholar of the Southern Dynasties who lived in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Yu Xin was born in Nanliang, with first-class literary talents and a prominent reputation. He served as a scholar of the Eastern Palace and an order of Jiankang successively. However, because of the Hou Jing Rebellion, he was displaced from Jiankang and fled to Jiangling.After the fall of the Southern Liang Dynasty, Yu Xin stayed in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was unable to return to the South all his life. He felt sad and missed his homeland. He wrote 27 poems entitled "Nian Yong Huai", this is the tenth of them. a.

The era in which Yu Xin lived was the era in which the stories in this book took place—the sixth century AD. In the sixth century A.D., in this land of China, there were thousands of people who had similar experiences with Yu Xin; and China in the sixth century A.D. was the same as Yu Xin's life experience, with sorrows and joys. There are ups and downs, endless excitement, and endless feelings. This is another century full of contradictions.At the beginning of this century, the era of China's great division, counting from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a history of more than 300 years.The situation of confrontation between the North and the South has not changed much. The Liang State in the south has just replaced the chaotic and corrupt Southern Qi, while the Wei State in the north is gradually showing its decline.In this century, there were three major events that had a profound impact. The first one was the Six Towns Rebellion in the north, the second was the Hou Jing Rebellion in the south, and the third major event that occurred after the two major rebellions in the north and south was Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. Unified China.After the great chaos, China did not fall apart like Rome in the Middle Ages. Instead, it ushered in great rule, drawing a perfect end to this century with an unprecedentedly powerful form of unification.

Today, when we turn to the history books and look back at the magical sixth century AD, what we see is a great turmoil in which good and evil are indistinguishable from right and wrong, a period of vicissitudes and a heroic era. The entire Chinese nation has gone from darkness to glory. In the end, he was reborn in Nirvana in the fire. In this book, we will follow the causes and consequences of three major events, and walk through the sixth century AD from the great chaos to the great rule: and "Hou Jing's Rebellion" respectively describe the causes and consequences of the Six Towns Rebellion and the Hou Jing Rebellion, and the heroes, while "Three Points Return" "Sui" tells the story of how China finally returned to unity.

Well, now let's focus our attention on a year in the middle of the sixth century AD-546 AD.