Qilu Changge: Thousand Years of Records of Clay Figurines

Between Mount Tai and the East China Sea, in the gap between history and reality, a group of people are stuck. Their faith has collapsed, but their incense remains; their order is chaotic, but their etiquette is thorough. In Liujiayu at the foot of Mount Tai, Liu Siliang, a clay sculptor with facial paralysis, was involved in a series of bizarre events when he was sculpting a portrait of Zhao Hongtai, which led to the story of his grandfather Liu Houtu and Axiao, a clay figurine who had lived for more than 2,000 years. Axiao has teeth from past generations hidden in his belly, and each tooth represents a forgotten life: a statue of a Qi soldier in the Warring States period, a Han Dynasty alchemist who deceived Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties who talked about Zhuangzi, Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty paying for wine, a palace maid in the Southern Song Dynasty talking about the local dialect, an actor in the late Ming Dynasty who died for his country, a stonemason in the late Qing Dynasty who worshiped himself, and in 1958, the thick soil protected Axiao from being imprisoned for three years. Accompanied by documentary director Mi Xiaomi, Si Liang retrieved fifteen fragments from Taishan, Konglin, Laoshan, Penglai, and Qi Great Wall to piece together Axiao's complete memory according to Axiao's words of "the places you have been to." Uncle Shi Ming wanted to take Ah Xiao away, but he finally regretted and surrendered, jumped to the Great Wall and became a vegetative state. Si Liang found a legacy letter in his grandfather's urn and learned that his grandfather had endured all his life. After A Xiao remembered everything, he disappeared into smoke. Si Liang used the clay sculptures collected on the way to find pieces to stand in the entrance of the village. The crazy old man died, and the old newspaper in his arms revealed that he was originally Li Jinbiao, the football king of the Republic of China, who had guarded one goal for fifty years and waited for his teammates. International curators wanted to buy a group portrait, but Si Liang refused. The villagers meeting failed to sell the portrait. Those who vented their anger smashed the statue, and Si Liang silently rebuilt it. A year later, he visited Axiao's old place four or two times, picked up soil and spread it in front of Shaohao's mausoleum, saying that Axiao had returned to his hometown. Returning to the village, the statue was smashed again and repaired four times. One day in the dusk, he suddenly felt his own smile on his face, and said to the sky: "Grandpa, smile, I remember it."......