Golden Embers

Does an oil lamp protect the lives of our ancestors, or the souls beneath the ground? In 1938, there was a fire in Changsha. In order to exchange life-saving food for half of the refugees in the city, the head of the Xu family, "Xu Dayandai", broke the ancestral motto of "lightkeeper" and went to the kiln late at night. That night, he brought out a bronze Buddha and a curse that lasted for three generations. Eighty years later, Xu Cai, a small businessman from Panjiayuan, discovered a mummy dead in a crack in the wall while renovating his ancestral home. The mummy was holding a photo in his hand. In the photo, a woman with only half a face was lying on Grandpa Xu Dayandou's shoulder. "The lamp cannot be extinguished until the debt is repaid." From the ancient city of Changsha to the lower Qinling Mountains, from the desolate smoke of Mobei to the ruins of Kunlun. This is a history of grave digging that spans a hundred years, and is also a song of life and death for people in the world.