The Qing Dynasty was a fascinating period in the modern history of China. Over the years, the Qing Dynasty’s creations have been prosperous for a long time. The main reason is that the Qing Dynasty has many legends, secret histories, and suspicious cases. After the success of "Eternal Dynasty", Professor Yang Li, a famous Chinese writer, wrote this long historical novel at a very fast speed, which reflects Professor Yang Li's extraordinary historical and cultural foundation and literary accomplishment.All her books are best-selling and alluring, and the charm of her writing is truly unique.

It is the second volume of Yang Li's long historical novel "The Eternal Series". Standing at the height of modern history, Professor Yang Li used the viewpoint of historical materialism to epically and artistically reproduce the tragedy of the Reform Movement of 1898 in modern Chinese history through the love swan song of Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Zhen. Difficult, reading it produced a strong shock. Comrade Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art" pointed out: "Literary and art criticism has two standards, one is the political standard, and the other is the literary and artistic standard." , let alone pleasing for a while, all outstanding Chinese works handed down from generation to generation have this virtue, which cannot be taken away.

The book not only has the historical thickness of Bai Danggao, but also has strong ideological content. The theme of the book is clear, and the love and hatred are strong, especially the characterization is quite successful.Yang Li's writing style has both masculine grandeur and feminine delicacy. He expresses the inner world of Empress Dowager Cixi to the fullest, expresses the love between Emperor Guangxu and his concubine Zhen, and describes the reform figures Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and Tan Sitong vividly. It is extraordinary, and Li Lianying's face is exposed to the skin to the bone, and some important figures in history such as Li Hongzhang, Weng Tonghe, Yuan Shikai, etc. are portrayed thoroughly.The ability to portray so many historical figures so brilliantly in just over 300,000 characters cannot be said to be another masterpiece of Yang Li's writing style.In particular, from the perspective of history and medicine, the author puts forward a new view on the cause of death of Emperor Guangxu who has been wronged for a hundred years, which is one of the great values ​​of this book.In short, the book is a literary and artistic treasure with high artistic value.