Folk Taoist Priest

A secret family history intertwined with dreams, a pursuit of cause and effect spanning three generations. When I was a child, I dreamed about snakes every night, and the dense swarms of snakes became my nightmare; at the same time, my cousin's body appeared strangely with sloughs of snake slough. Family members say that this is all related to my maternal grandfather, Li Qingyang. It all started in 1956 in a small mountain village in northern Hunan. My 14-year-old grandfather had been entangled with a big blue-black snake for five years, until an old Taoist monk appeared and revealed his secret that "he must have a catastrophe at the age of twenty-seven." In order to get rid of the nightmare, his grandfather changed his name to "Li Qingyang" and embarked on a journey with the Taoist to learn spells, Feng Shui and Taoist secrets. However, with the sudden departure of the master, only a letter was left that revealed part of the truth, guiding him back to the starting point of everything: Lijiacun. The flower-drum troupe unique to Hunan Province sings strange tunes, the ancient shadow play reflects the forgotten past, the lonely souls in mass graves whisper in the middle of the night, and unknown grudges are buried under the ancestral graves... The secret rituals of "inviting gods", "calling souls" and "returning souls" are performed one after another, and all clues point to the snake in the dream and a fate related to Taoist reincarnation. With my grandfather missing, I will take over the torch of pursuit and uncover the ultimate secret shrouding my family's bloodline.