"The Lamp Holder: a Record of Chinese Folklore Weird Tales"

Su Qingyuan, a 24-year-old folklore researcher at the Hangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, was born in a family of Yin Yang teachers in the south of the Yangtze River. She has been deeply involved in Chinese folk intangible cultural heritage for many years. However, during a visit to an ancient village in western Zhejiang, she and her best friend strayed into a "folk custom forbidden area" originating from folk taboos. Here, the broken wedding customs, funeral taboos, and village legends have all turned into strange rules and legends that threaten life. Ordinary people accidentally enter the land and their bodies are wiped out. Only the selected "Lamp Bearer" can survive by cracking the core rules and completing designated tasks. Relying on the folklore knowledge engraved in his bones and the ancestral lantern-holding skills, Su Qingyuan calmly broke through the situation of life and death, escaped from the novice forbidden area, and awakened the century-old destiny of the lantern holder. She formed a fixed team with her best friend Lin Xiaoman, who values ​​​​loyalty, and the logical and rigorous former criminal policeman Lao Chen, and traveled to folk forbidden places across the country. In the forbidden area, she met the top lantern holder Lu Jinghan. This person who is indifferent and alienated from the world has a ceiling of combat power, but he is extremely partial to her and protects her silently. He is her reliable comrade-in-arms who fights side by side, and is also her soul mate who guards the reincarnation of her remaining soul across a hundred years. The two of them go in both directions to solve the conspiracy together. As the truth about the forbidden areas is revealed one by one, the sacrifice conspiracy from a hundred years ago, the fate of the lamp bearer in the previous life, and the crisis at the boundary between the human world and the forbidden areas follow one after another. Su Qingyuan holds the lamp as a torch, uses folk rules to break the forbidden deadlock, appeases the souls of the dead, protects the fireworks in the world, and finally becomes the lantern holder who illuminates the yin and yang. Concept: This work takes Chinese intangible cultural heritage and local folklore taboos as its core core, abandons Western-style horror and mindless cheating settings, and uses rules and weird stories as a carrier to tell the story of the growth of the heroine Su Qingyuan, who relies on her professional folklore knowledge and her determination to stick to the bottom line to solve the mystery of the forbidden area, comfort the souls of the dead, and reveal the truth. The work digs deep into the good and evil of human nature, historical warmth and regrets of the times behind folk taboos, breaks the appearance of feudal superstition, conveys the positive core of "having good intentions, adhering to the bottom line, and passing on the fire from generation to generation", showing the unique charm and vitality of Chinese folk culture, and interpreting the core theme of "holding a lamp as a torch can break the long night, comfort the souls of the dead, and guard the world."