The end of the film seems to be back to the beginning. Tianqing, Judou, and Tianbai are trapped in a cage, and they are brought back to the "order" of that world for a new trial, and Tianqing finally Being killed by "order" Tianbai tells the audience the most straightforward message: "order" will continue to be passed on, from generation to generation, without end.
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Yang Tianqing’s uncle, Yang Jinshan, was a dyer with physical defects. After torturing his two wives to death, he spent a lot of money to buy a dyer to continue his incense. A beautiful young woman - Ju Dou. ?
Ju Dou is Yang Jinshan’s long-term worker in the dye house during the day, and is Yang Jinshan’s tool to vent his lust at night. Yang Tianqing, who was nearly forty years old but not yet married, developed sympathy for Ju Dou, who screamed in pain because of his uncle's abuse of power every night. Pity led to love. The two had an affair and gave birth to a son.
One day, Yang Jinshan suddenly suffered a stroke and became paralyzed from the lower body. He finally learned about the affair between Ju Dou and Tian Qing, and wanted to take revenge, but was unable to do so. Later, while playing with Tian Bai, he unfortunately fell into the dyeing pond and drowned. According to family rules, Tianqing had to move out of the dyeing room, so he and Ju Dou had to secretly go to the wild for a tryst. Soon gossip spread in the village, and Tian Bai, who grew up, heard it. Even though he knew that Tian Qing was his biological father, he still drove Tian Qing out of the dyeing room with hostility and hatred.
When Ju Dou and Tian Qing were reliving their old dreams in the cellar, they suffocated due to lack of air. Tian Bai threw his unconscious biological father into the dye pool and drowned. The desperate Ju Dou lit the dyeing room on fire, and the grudges and grudges of more than ten years were reduced to ashes in the fire.
Reference material Baidu Encyclopedia—Judou