An epic of the century long spiritual growth of an Eastern man, a romantic magical realism story.
Since ancient times, there has been an idiom in the East called "Wishing One's Son To Become A Loong"-Chinese dragon, outstandingly successful, respected and accomplished.
The protagonist, a naive and ignorant young boy Wang Yalong is in a difficult environment, but due to the awakening of national genes, his lonely heart gives birth to hope from despair and pursues the ultimate dream of "becoming a loong" from death to life.
At the beginning, Yalong stands by the tall window, pondering "What does life mean?" and "what does death mean?". He made the choice to "Living with death in mind", and began to question and explore a series of ultimate propositions of "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?".
From the "era too painful to look back" to the historic changes of reform and opening up, and then to the rapid development of the economy society, ultimately extending to the desirable future, Wang Yalong has undergone 81 trials, collected a series of Loong Scales, experienced the tension between human diligence and laziness, loyalty and betrayal, admiration and inferiority, as well as the resilience of "Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains" and the tragic spirit of "Sisyphus Pushing Boulder Up Mountains".
Finding the missing love was even harder. From that era of poverty, ignorance, and oppression, to the outbreak of human nature in the blooming "Loong Born Nine Sons", it deeply metaphorically embodies the fundamental desire of life for endless growth, sustainable development, and permanent sublimation.
Yalong overcame self-obstacles and achieved self-fulfillment through self-reflection from setbacks and dialogue with the loong's heart language. After being baptized by love, he transformed himself and realized the "unity of heaven and man" and "unity of mind and matter" in Eastern wisdom, and "transformed into a loong" in the four-dimensional spacetime consciousness world of the metaverse at the end.
It's not only a personal awakening, but also a reflection of the collective spiritual history of the Chinese nation's persistent pursuit of spiritual solutions in modern suffering.