In The Realms of Joy

Cheng Ho Village is an isolated town and the villagers living there lead a quiet and peaceful life. However, generations after generations, they are very superstitious and tend to overreact to whatever happens. It has not rained for a long time and one of the villagers, a grocer, CHIN KUNG SUM, leads a procession along the streets sprinkling water all around, hoping to bring rain. The water damages the paper goods made by KOON YAU CHOI and the two have a fierce quarrel. CHOI curses that the son born to SUM will be an idiot. SUM got very maddened by this.