This book is divided into three parts:
1. The first part is the first to sixth chapters, which narrates the origin of the story "The Edge of a Mirror Flower" and paves the way for the myth of Chen Fan.
According to legend, the star "Heart Moon Fox" descended on Wu Zetian. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered "a hundred flowers blossom" in the cold winter. At that time, Baihua Fairy was playing chess with Magu, not in the abode of fairies and immortals. The flower gods under his jurisdiction did not dare to violate Wu Zetian's will and bloomed one after another, but the peony was later released and exiled to Luoyang (later became a burnt peony).
The Emperor of Heaven confused Yin and Yang with a hundred flowers fairy, saying, "When it is gorgeous, please flatter before the Lord", but both the hundred flowers fairy and the ninety-nine flowers fairy have descended to the world, so they need to travel overseas and meet with danger before they can be robbed.
2. The second part, from Chapter 7 to Chapter 50, describes Tang Ao's overseas travel and Tang Xiaoshan's journey to find his father (the journey to find his roots), which is the most striking part of The Garden in the Mirror. Most of what I saw and heard during the trip came from ancient geographical natural history novels such as Shan Hai Jing and Natural History, and they were adapted to satirize current events, presenting a utopian ideal to some extent. Baihua Fairy gave birth to Tang Aojia, a Lingnan scholar, whose name is Tang Xiaoshan.
Tang Aoke's fame was so disappointing that he came up with the idea of being born. He went abroad for business with his wife, brother Lin Zhiyang and helmsman Duo Jiugong, and the three of them traveled overseas to see different scenery.
On the way, I passed through scholar countries, adult countries, Blackpool countries, fairy countries, colon countries, beak countries, Dragon People countries, Burong countries, Laos, Xuanyuan countries and other countries, and met Jiao Ren, Silkworm Girl and Dang Kang. Sure enough.
For example, in the girl country, "men wear dresses instead of managing internal affairs like women;" Women, like men, wear boots and hats and manage foreign affairs "; Scholar's country "is strictly ordered by the Lord, if the subjects offer treasures, they will burn them and ask for punishment", and the people will give them a gift. "Shu Ren and others, rich or poor, are respectful and polite."
During the trip, Tang Ao not only rescued the "Twelve Famous Flowers" who were living abroad for the second time, but also brought some foreign objects from the immortal family, such as Nie Kongcao and Zhu Cao, which made him carry a heavy load, leap high, and also strengthened his idea of being born and become immortal in Penglai.
In order to find his father, Tang Xiaoshan and his uncle Lin Zhiyang went out to sea again, and after all kinds of hardships, they arrived in Xiaopenglai. I received a letter from Tang Ao under the order of Beijing, ordering Xiaoshan to change its name to Tang Guichen, returning to China to take part in gynecology, and continuing the trailing edge.
3. In the third part, starting from the last fifty, Wu Zetian tried gynecology and admitted talented women in the world. Hundreds of talented women, including Tang Guichen, tried to go to Beijing and hosted a banquet in Zongbo House. At the end of the novel, the descendants of the heroes of the Tang Dynasty rose up against the Zhou Dynasty, conquered the four customs of debauchery and wealth, and beheaded Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi brothers at the gate. The world belongs to Li Tang, and Zhongzong succeeded to the throne.