What story did the Taoist priest tell when he went down the mountain?

It tells the story of an inexperienced little Taoist who left the Taoist temple because of food shortage and stepped into the bizarre world of mortals. He faced everything with a childlike innocence and found how different the world was from what he imagined.

The Taoist Down the Mountain is a fantasy adventure drama produced by Xinli Media Co., Ltd., directed by Chen Kaige and co-starred by Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang and Lin Chi-ling.

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During the Republic of China, foreign enemies invaded, warlords scuffled, and various Jianghu figures appeared in troubled times. He Anxia (Wang), an inexperienced Taoist priest, left the Taoist temple and secretly went down the mountain because of food shortage. He stepped into the bizarre world of mortals and met a series of strange people and events.

Inadvertently involved in the battle for the head of Taiji Gate, and fought with Japanese ninjas who came to China to steal teachers. The spy after the reunification of China wanted to attract him to be a spy, but he took this opportunity to help the boss of Beijing Opera Wusheng Tea (Zhang zhen) intercept the spy leader and avenge his wife. He Anxia lived among Central China, Nazi doctors, Japanese pirates and Jianghu, and experienced a series of incredible figures and events.

When he went down the mountain, he faced everything with a pure heart. Now he finds how different the world is from what he imagined. He finally understood what the master said before he went down the mountain: "You are a hero by hook or by crook, and you are a real hero if you don't change your original intention."

Film evaluation

The Taoist Down the Mountain is not an excellent film. The gorgeous coat of the film is twisted and tangled with the author's own ideas, and finally presents a work with inflated ambitions and lost land. Except for Fan Wei's first story, which is relatively complete, the last two stories are very confusing, although they are very long, which confuses people who haven't read the original.

For example, the scene of He Anxia and Peng Qizi taking poison in the film is an original plot, which leads to the evil side of He Anxia, but this plot is very abrupt in the whole film.

If Fan Wei's story is still relaxed, it will enter an extremely chaotic and bloated stage in the later stage, and the ending is very similar to the original, which makes the narrative structure of the whole film change from "sugar-coated gourd" to "gourd".