Rebuilding the Garden of Perfect Brightness with Technology

In 2019, the digital restoration project of Yuanmingyuan hit a bottleneck. Zhang Huaijin, a young scholar who had returned from studying in the UK, was at a loss facing the incomplete drawings. When he accidentally touched a fragment of a half-piece of ancestral "tangyang" (architectural model), the modern laboratory before his eyes suddenly faded away—he had become Lei Jinyu, the second-generation craftsman of the "Yangshi Lei" family in the 46th year of Kangxi's reign. At this time, the young fourth prince Yinzhen was granting this barren hill the name "Yuanming" and ordered him to find living water within three days, or he would be punished. Zhang Huaijin could only use modern geological survey knowledge combined with ancient methods to determine the water vein with a bamboo tube. From then on, by day he was a modern architect leading digital restoration, and by night he transformed into successive generations of Lei ancestors, experiencing the foundation laying under Kangxi, the Garden of Perfect Brightness under Qianlong, all the way to the raging fire of 1860 and the broken walls of the Republic of China era. He could not stop the collapse of that decaying empire, but he vowed to carve the pinnacle of Chinese civilization, brick by brick, into the nation's digital memory. Protagonist setting: Zhang Huaijin, a contemporary scholar, architectural designer, and calligrapher/painter. His father is a Dunhuangologist, and he comes from a family with deep scholarly roots. He studied in the UK and visited overseas museums extensively. He is the leader of the Yuanmingyuan cultural relic research and digital reconstruction project, and a hidden inheritor of the Lei family craftsman spirit. He is calm, persistent, and deeply patriotic. What he most wants — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Rebuilding the Garden of Perfect Brightness with Technology — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠