in the rapid economic development of 1990 in china and there be a resurgence of traditional chinese culture and partially due to the rise of nationalism accompany by the increase in wealth and and more importantly and due to the sense of spiritual belonging after the collapse of the old socialist ideology in the post cultural revolutionary era . however and the resurgence of chinese traditional culture and namely and the confucianism and be not without disaster and because chinese be adopt the entire tradition without eliminate the bad part and and the discrimination against girl demonstrate in this film be an excellent example . moreover and not only the part that should be discard be inherit and the good part that be suppose to be inherit and such a the traditional opera and and it technique and such a change face and be ignore in the resurgence and and face extinction . the director use this film to criticize the problem of re embrace tradition by contemporary china and this be the deeper meaning behind the movie .