Strictly speaking, this is not the sixth book I have read this year, but I bought it after I saw the book list of Prince Ma Ma Boyong last year. The book Long Life is a bit difficult to read. It took me a month to finish it off and on.
The history of the Northern Wei Dynasty itself is quite one-sided. At first, Wang dabbled in its contents through History of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The protagonist of this book is a very marginalized figure, but through her life, we can see the cruelty of politics. Father and son, mother and son, brothers and sisters can all be sacrificed before rights. In front of the temptation of power, there are books and lakes everywhere, and there are no more waves and mountains, because there are at least mothers in the waves and mountains.
Ci Qing was born in Taiyan, Wei Wudi, North Pacific Ocean (439, 16th year of Song Jia). She became a monk in the twenty or twelve years (496 or 497) of Emperor Xiaowen and Taitai of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Before becoming a monk in the north, she was the maid-in-waiting of the Wei Palace, with a common name of Wang. Before becoming a maid-in-waiting in Huangpingcheng, Zhong Wang was born in a low-level bureaucratic family facing south and married a family with the same social status. Later, due to the north-south struggle, she was exiled to the north, reduced to a humble servant of Xi officials, lived like an ant, and was sent to the city palace to be a maid. When Wang was thirty years old that year, he told her that her life had undergone earth-shaking changes, and the normal life track suddenly stopped, leaving her in darkness for the rest of her life. But who would have thought that she lived in the Northern Wei Palace for fifty or sixty years. It's been a long life.