Jiang Shenci, the sixth-generation master of the Liu family in Liujie, Chizhou, sticks to ancient temples and Nuo ritual masks. He is trapped in clan rules for half his life. He is taciturn and restrained, and does not understand worldly love.
Zhou Xubai, a restorer of ancient intangible cultural heritage books, went to the countryside for research and entered the ancient village. With the sensitivity and scars left behind in his youth, he understood that the obsession of getting to the bottom of things was actually trauma, and he also understood the clumsy and silent thoughts of the temple guardians.
On one side are the ancient rituals of Nuo opera passed down from generation to generation, and on the other side are the vast human world beyond the mountains and fields. As soon as the Nuo opera came to an end, the ancestral hall, which had been dusty for hundreds of years, finally waited for the returnees who had come from afar. There is no bloody entanglement, only the steady warmth of fateful encounter and slowly approaching.
Purpose: Based on the intangible inheritance of Chizhou Nuo opera, the story is about people who stick to tradition and those who embrace the wilderness, how to redeem each other, accept the scars of the past, understand two different life trajectories, find a balance between local context and secular fireworks, and complete self-reconciliation and two-way travel in quiet companionship.