Fuxi

Author: Yaxianzhi
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Ancient ancestors, setting snares, crafting bows and arrows, raising livestock, butchering sacrificial animals, planting five grains... Between heaven and earth, fishing with sticks and spears, hunting with stone balls, eating raw meat and drinking blood, filling hunger with grass seeds... The pure and simple tribes engaged in fierce struggles with savagery, the crude customs intertwined with enduring love, the rugged spirit entangled with delicate family matters, all woven into the words of the book. Derived from mythology yet detached from it, bound by conventions yet escaping beyond them, a history without narration is hollow. "Therefore, let history be filled with life and substance: Shennong, the divine and human messenger who tasted all herbs, sacrificed his life to bring rain for the people; the friend of Paoxi who was indifferent to fame and fortune, offering medical care and medicine, and was an important figure in the clan; Paoxi, who endured lifelong hardships, an outstanding woman who lived for the world, ultimately ruined half of the clan's people due to mistakes in her later years, lost authority, and finally ended her life with a primitive form of euthanasia, beginning an endless journey as a deity..." Paoxi Shi is the next historical novel in the "Ancient Footprints" series, following Shuiren Shi. It is a heavy and profound historical voice, based on archaeological discoveries from different periods of the Neolithic Age, using mythology as its material, and employing a magnificent style to recreate ancient life, bridging the distance between modernity and history.