In a small mountain village in ancient Japan, the elderly were sent to the mountains to fend for themselves when they reached the age of 70. In order to make this act of destroying ethics recognized, but also so that everyone does not resist psychologically, a hat of faith was imposed, this action was associated with family honor and mountain gods, and the 70-year-old man was sent to the mountain to visit the mountain in the name of The Mountain, there is a complete and cumbersome set of rituals, the son will carry out the door before dawn, the whole time can not speak, when the son returns home can not turn back. This small mountain village has no law and no ethics, everything comes according to the rules, give birth to baby boys discarded at will, baby girls can sell money, the old man is still very healthy at the age of 70 and is regarded as a disgrace, even his own grandson also has to call her ghost mother-in-law, was ridiculed by the whole village, Ah Ling Po because her husband refused to send her mother to the mountain to wait for death to escape, so that the family has been ridiculed by the whole village, Ah Ling in order to let the family survive the winter of food shortage, at the age of 70, she took the initiative to ask to go to the mountain, in order to save the face of the family, in order to save the face of the family, For this reason, a ceremony was held, and the elderly people of the village came to drink goodbye wine, and although the son Chenping was unwilling, his mother had to carry his mother on the mountain, in contrast to the neighbor A was unwilling to go, and was tied up by his son's money house and forcibly pushed down the valley bottom from the cliff.
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