Taipingzhuang Colloquialism

Author: Zhu Jian
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: In Taiping Village, the girl Lotus falls in love with a young monk in the temple and eventually engages in an illicit affair, which is not tolerated by the Li family's rules. On the seventh and fifteenth ghosts' nights, they are ground into the river. Three years later, when villagers release lanterns and perform rituals for the deceased, the Mei family gives birth to a boy—known to the villagers as the ghost Mei Yugui. With the passage of time, it quickly becomes 1965. Mei Yugui grows up in the midst of pressure from the Mei and Li families. Unable to endure the humiliation, the actress Chen Ailian seeks refuge in Taiping Village. In the turbulent, warm, competitive, and suffering-filled years of 1965-1966, Mei and Chen weave a modern version of the love story between Lotus and the young monk.