
Notes on the Coffin Door: I Look after the World for My Brother
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In Panlong Village in the mountains of western Hunan, the Chen family has inherited two things from generation to generation: elder brother Chen Shan has learned the "coffin door" craft, which can open coffins, read Feng Shui, and determine yin and yang; younger brother Chen Shui has become a "village guardian" who can connect to the earth's veins and see ghosts and gods, but he is as silent as a stone all day long. On the night when the developer demolished the "Longsuo Monument" at the entrance of the village, Chen Shui, who had been mute for three years, suddenly said: "I will die." That night, the developer died suddenly wearing an exquisite shroud. The size of the shroud was exactly the same, but no one knew who made it. The village elder begged Chen Shan with tears streaming down his face - only the heir of Coffin Gate could solve this life-threatening mystery. Chen Shan picked up the dusty ink fountain and discovered the secret that his grandfather had not revealed before he died: the coffin door was never just the coffin, but also the "land deed" that held the mountains and rivers in check; the village guardians never guarded the village, but the "human pillar" that integrated life into the earth's veins and held the gap between yin and yang for the living. The cry of an infant in a dry well, the awakening of a bronze coffin, the reappearance of the ancient corpse exorcism route, the Chenzhou talisman disaster... Behind every disaster, there is a "stealing of pulse" plotted for centuries. Chen Shan solved the problem with his coffin door craftsmanship, and Chen Shui guided him with the spiritual sense of guarding the village. One of the brothers was in the light, the other in the dark, but in the end they could not resist the sneer of the man behind the scenes: "The people who guard the village are the biggest 'living coffins' in this mountain. When the time comes, it's time to lay them to rest." When the final catastrophe came and Chen Shui as a "suppressor" was on the verge of collapse, Chen Shan made the most shocking choice in the history of coffins - he used himself as material and blood as paint to build a "living coffin" for his brother and this landscape. "This time, it's my brother who will be the guard. You go down the mountain and go to the human world."
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