The story that I am going to retell is based on an ancient Chinese folktale, the story of Lady Meng Jiang. Her husband was sent as corvee labor to build the great wall of China. However, Lady Meng Jiang heard nothing after his departure. Thus she decided to bring winter clothes for her husband. As she got to the great wall, her husband had already died. When she heard this bad news, she started to cry. Lady Meng Jiang cried so loudly and bitterly that a part of the great wall collapsed, and revealed her husband’s bones. The Gods of China were touched by the love that Lady Meng Jiang had toward her husband and relieved the pain of reincarnation from her.
She later becomes Meng Po and serves in “Diyu,” which means hell in Chinese. It is her task to ensure that souls who are ready to be reincarnated do not remember their previous life or their time in hell. She collects herbs from various earthly ponds and streams to make her “Five Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness,” which is the waters of oblivion. This is given to each soul to drink before they leave Diyu. The soup provides instant and permanent amnesia, and all memories of people’s past lives are all forgotten. All previous sins and knowledge have been purged, and the dead spirit is sent to be reborn in a new incarnation, and the cycle begins again.
For the sequential Recut, I want to create the scene of Meng Po producing the “Five Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness” in the contemporary generation since everything is different from ancient China. Since nowadays everything works in a fast-paced, and the technology makes people lazier. I imagined Meng Po being lazy and laid back in her office, and she has this giant factory, which produces the “Five Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness” by machines. Thus, I portrayed the fast process of how the tea is made in Meng Po’s DiYu Factory. 
At the beginning of the video, I portrayed a lazying image of Meng Po falling asleep in her office, which is a representation of average office workers nowadays. As she is sleeping, the switch turns on and gets the whole factory start working on the five flavored soup. The factory initiates working without anyone turning on the switches, it automatically turns on at the same time every day, which symbolizes the fast-paste contemporary technology. Moreover, everything nowadays is well labeled and packaged, everything is kind of over-commercialized these days, materials are being wasted. so I also added colors and labels for the soups that are being made in DiYu. Towards the end of the video, there are special machines that are just made for making the labels. Just like nowadays, they spend a ton of money on packaging, and not on the actual products. Even though the five flavored tea is a one-time use product, but it is still packaged well in cans, like any of the drinking products that we have. Since nobody would drink a bottle of liquid that has no label on it.
The audio or the music that I am using in the sequential recut is called “Made in China” by the Chinese Rappers Higher Brothers. I think it matches perfectly with the whole atmosphere of the video, and since everything in the video is actually made in DiYu, the Chinese hell.
