The Shen family has an ancestral motto:
Whenever forbidden customs are reinstated, they will be banned.
Shen Zhaowei has not believed in ghosts and gods since he was a child.
But she had seen her grandmother burn a page of pictures of a bride on a rainy night, she had seen half a volume of "Forbidden Customs" locked in a black wooden box, and she had also seen many old customs that should have disappeared reappear in the world.
The bride sinks into the lake, the paper figurine gets married, the genealogy without words, the seven lanterns guarding the mausoleum...
For every story, there are people who keep it secret.
Every taboo is like waiting for an insider to come back.
Later, Shen Zhaowei became a folk suspense writer.
She traveled to ancient towns, visited deserted villages, wrote ghost stories, and sealed them.
Until one day, she received an anonymous letter from Qingwu Town.
There is only half a line left in the letter:
When there is a drought, he chooses a daughter and sinks her. The rain will come in three days.
Shen Zhaowei finally understood.
The things my grandmother burned back then did not die.
It just kept waiting for her.
Purpose: to explore folk taboos buried by time and uncover the truth about life written behind old customs. In each unit story, follow the protagonist into the ancient mountain town, see how the shackles called "tradition" imprison people's hearts, and also witness the struggle and awakening of ordinary people in the face of taboos. In the end, you will find that the so-called folklore is never a cold written record, but an eternal echo about human nature, awe and redemption.