This chapter is mainly for friends to understand the general plot of this book, you can skip this chapter directly)

The main content of the first volume ("This Water, Earth, and This People").

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in today's Chongqing area, there was a Fang State (vassal state), that is, Ba Guo (Bazi State), and the people of this country were of course called Ba people.

In the middle of the Warring States period (377 BC), the state of Ba and the state of Shu in present-day Sichuan jointly launched an attack on the powerful state of Chu, and the goal of the war was to regain Yanyang Salt Spring (now Qingjiang Valley), one of the three major salt springs of Ba that had been captured by Chu, and a large area of territory, and prevent the expansion of Chu into Bashu.

As a result, the Bashu coalition army suffered a crushing defeat, which led to a protracted war that lasted for 16 years and ended in order to prevent the Chu State from seizing one of its three major salt springs, Yushui Salt Spring (present-day Yushan Town, Pengshui County, Chongqing) and the vast area of the Wujiang River Valley, and intending to force it into the heart of the Ba Kingdom (the Yangtze River Valley's fangdi, present-day Fuling)—this is the historical background of this book.

The warriors of the three major tribes (tribes) of the lower reaches of the Wujiang River, who were at the forefront of the war, became a strong force to resist the Chu people and defend the country.

A few years later, Pakistan launched another war against Chu in an attempt to recapture Yanyang Salt Spring, but not only did not achieve the expected results, but was defeated again.

In this battle, young heroes such as Hu'an Mountain's Hu'an Mountain, Fan Yuntong (from the clan of the Tongdi people, later came to Hu'an Mountain), and Tutian Qi emerged in Pakistan.

This volume, with the growth experience (family, friendship, love) of the Hu'an Mountain tribe Gu Menglong, Hu Mengyu brother and sister and Fan Yuntong as the main line, the old and new enmities between the Baihuba people and other clans of the Ba people (the local earlier Pu people, Fangren, etc.), and the grievances and grievances between the three major tribes in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River are the secondary lines, showing the unique character traits, ways of thinking, behavior, folk customs and folk customs of the ancient Ba people, as well as the local picturesque scenery, so that readers can feel the unique charm of "This Water and Soil and This People".

In this volume, the traditional cultural elements of ethnic minorities such as Tujia, Miao, and Gelao in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River appear in more primitive forms, such as: worship of the White Tiger God, worship of black ghosts, hand-waving dance, Maogusi, dancing funerals, singing and dancing with bamboo branches, witchcraft, etc.

The core area of the karst terrain of the World Natural Heritage Site, the Wushui Gallery, the famous Ba Ziliang ruins, the salt spring, the rain prayer platform and the Peach Garden outside the world are the stages where the ancient Wujiangba people used to be frequently active—therefore, most of the geographical directions, topography and scenic spots described in the book are based on local real scenes and moderately fictional.

In this volume, a myth and legend that has an important impact on the ending of the main characters of the book is also embedded: the myth of the Five Dragon Balls and the Five Dragon Sword.

The "Ten Python Kings" (Salt Dragon, etc.) from Dawu Mountain will compete with the "Five Dragons" (Dream Dragon, Mu Mangzi Shui Yu, Fan Yuntong, Tutian Ruler, and Wucheng) for the Five Dragon Balls and Five Dragon Swords in a later volume, and this feud originates from the legend of the "Ten Witches of Lingshan".

At the same time, this volume briefly introduces the history and legends of the ancient Ba country, the Ba ethnic group, and the Ba people, which have been almost abandoned by the orthodox historical books, and also introduces the "salt" (Yanba, Ba Yan) that directly triggered the Battle of Bachu.

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