on family's traditions and customs. Another person, master Fung, he is the head of Confucian League. According to Chinese traditions, all family members have to follow the ancestors' rules and believe the head of the family tightly. But when their youngest son gets into western-style school, he is not allowed to study in that school. He thinks old idea causes the loophole in the society between classes and between men and women. Women are suppressed and inferior to men under any circumstances. The young people do not have freedom to choose their own lovers. On the contrary, family will arrange marriage for them in appropriate time.
             Furthermore, the film presents sympathetic women's lives. Ming Feng is the maid who is in love with the third brother. Because of different status quo, she is the servant, she is not supposed to love him. Finally, she is forced to marry grandfather's friend, master Fung. Then she decides to kill herself the night before marriage. Jui-Chue is the wife of the eldest brother. Before she married with the eldest brother, they do not love each other. When time passed, they feel sympathetic toward each other, including she is a nice woman, they both can live happily. Until one day, the grandfather dies. Family keeps his body in the coffin in the house. At the same time, Jui-Chue, the wife of the eldest brother is pregnant and about to deliver child. The old generations say that according to tradition (it might be the superstition), she has to leave the house and deliver child somewhere because grandfather's body is still in the house. The third brother rejects that old idea because she deserves to get a good care and stay with husband. The eldest brother does not say anything and finally lets her to stay in cousin's house. Finally, she dies when delivering a child, but the baby saves. Another woman,Cousin Mei, the eldest brother's first love, can not marry him. Her love is hin...