This is a devious, scandalous family tree, but Kuo Cheng interweaves "his" family history together with official history, effectively underscoring the unrehearsed, arbitrary side of the march of history.
這是一張雞鳴狗盜、胡作非為的族譜，但郭箏將「他的」家史與所謂正史穿插並列，赫然突顯了歷史演義的隨機性與武斷性。