"Time and Space Painter" tells the story of "ghost" on the day when the Palace Museum closed. After Zhou Ning, a criminal police officer, intervened in the investigation, he found that it might be related to the famous painting A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains in the Song Dynasty, thus uncovering the story behind the mysterious young painter who painted this painting and the cause and effect of his creation.

The novel adopts the writing technique of mystery novel, which combines China's traditional culture, history, reasoning and science fiction, and traces a fictional painting creation and the story of the power struggle between the ruling and opposition parties at that time.

There are all kinds of sights in the Palace Museum: first, there is a skeleton shadow on the pillar, and then the restorer of calligraphy and painting sees a moving and growing shadow on the drawing paper. Police officer Zhou Ning came to investigate, not only met a moving ghost, but also was possessed by a ghost, and even found strange moving black spots on his skin.

Zhou Ning hallucinated, had an accident and was in the hospital. In a coma, he met the strange ghost deep in his consciousness. It turned out that he was a phantom cast by Zhao Ximeng, a court painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was born with the consciousness of traveling through time and space, and he could see thousands of miles away at a glance, so he led Zhou Ning to witness his tortuous life, and also showed the historical fragment of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" painted by Wang Ximeng 18 years old.

Appreciation of time and space painters' works;

The storyline of Time and Space Painter begins with the "phantom" on the day when the Palace Museum closed. The author takes the cause and effect of the painting A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains in the Northern Song Dynasty as the main content, and combines history, reasoning and science fiction. Between reality and fantasy, ancient and modern clues are intertwined.

This paper traces the creative process of a fictional painting and the complicated power struggle between the ruling and the opposition behind it, bringing readers into a confusing fantasy time and space. Based on the experience of Wang Ximeng, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, this work created a character named Zhao Ximeng. Through his tortuous life, he discussed the power dispute behind the paintings that have been handed down through the ages, and the struggle and resistance of small individuals in the torrent of the times, which led to the philosophical speculation of entering the WTO and being born.