At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the wandering theater troupe "Puppet Studio" specialized in Yin opera. The leader of the class, Granny Huai, has one eye and a sandalwood bead, and uses silk threads to lead living people into the puppets and act on their orders. Every play needs a "puppet": after you go on stage, you become aware of the puppet, and by the end of the play you get what you want, but then it gradually turns into a puppet - its skin is hard, rusty, and it loses its five senses. A complete puppet will always be a prop, and can only be solved by the next willing person.
Yu Ji is obsessed with gender, Zhong Kui is obsessed with family love, Mulian is obsessed with goodbye, White Snake is obsessed with revenge, the Great Sage is obsessed with heroes, Dou E is obsessed with innocence, Peony is obsessed with painting skin, Cheng Ying is obsessed with giving up his son, Immortality is obsessed with giving death, Beauty is obsessed with justice, and Peach Blossom is obsessed with remnants. Twelve idiots, twelve kinds of borrowed lives, twelve plays within plays.
Granny Huai was also the first generation of puppets and a famous actress in Daoguang. She entered the theater to save the troupe and spent two hundred years looking for a dead ghost. The troupe never performs for three days in a row without returning to its old place, because the shadow puppets of all ages are pressed down under the stage carpet. If the performance lasts for a long time, the boundary between yin and yang will be solid and the puppets will not be able to come out.
Today, there are folklore students who have followed this point, taking their seats as soon as they turn the pages of a book, and entering into the play when watching a play. The page number is the seat number, invisible to all readers. Idiots pair up, the spectator is the actor, who is the puppet, who is the mother-in-law, who is the drama?
——The play was not over yet, the gong sounded again.
Really good