The Late Ming Dynasty

At the end of the Ming dynasty, smoke of war rolled across the northern frontier, and bones piled up like mountains; in the south of the Yangtze, small bridges and flowing water, song and dance carried on in peace. Amid the internal and external crises of a dynasty in its final days, a cunning office director rises strongly and sounds the last horn of China. True heroes can change fate.

Brutal ancient warfare, the real Ming marketplace, and history created by countless minor figures unfold into a grand yet gentle and lingering late-Ming panorama.