Da Mong Fang plot
Qing Guo, an elderly and ragged man, sees a funeral procession one day. The portrait carried with him makes him realize with a shock that the deceased is his beloved Jiu Cui. Fifty years ago, he loved her so passionately that his passion turned into a bloodbath. He had enlisted in the Red Army and did not return to his village until a year later. There he discovered that Jiu Cui had been sold by her parents to Lian Bai Jun, the disabled and ruthless district administrator. Secretly, the lovers meet in his paper mill. When Lian finds out, he orders his troops to exterminate all Red soldiers. Horrified at the bloodshed, Jiu Cui retreats to a monastery in the mountains.