Although classified as a comedy, this movie is actually a social satire.
In the recent rapid expansion of Chinese economic boom, thanks to the reformed implemented, individual citizens are having money in for themselves, for the first time in the post revolutionary era China. Accompanying this increased wealth, there is the resurgence of traditional culture.
However, as soon as there is a little money in their pockets, the dross of the traditional culture reappeared and this is what this movie criticizes in a comical way.
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