Ancestral Hall Puppet

Nine-year-old Chen Xiaoman accidentally broke the opera robe of a century-old puppet in the ancestral hall, and accidentally uncovered a tragic past involving Liu Sanniang, a famous spring gong actor in Pingxiang in the late Qing Dynasty, and Shen Zhiyin, a close friend of Huzhou. Under the guidance of his grandmother, veteran artist He Ruiying and others, he embarked on the road of learning to sing the "crying tune" of endangered opera. This is not only the inheritance of a skill, but also a cultural root search that spans time and space. A century-old wish has been transformed into a legacy. Chen Xiaoman and the new generation of young people use modern methods to revive ancient voices and even build a bridge for the hearing-impaired to perceive sounds.