Din Tao Leader of the Parade

ATai Alan Ko narrates that he is the son of Uncle Da Chen Pocheng and Aunt Da Samantha Ko who run a troupe in Taichung Uncle Das troupe does traditional performance in front of religious processions The religion requires performers to initiate the faces and pose as godsto put on a special face painting or to put on a heavy body puppet costume both of these represent gods persona The performance demands training of martial art acrobatics and endurance and the performers are negatively associated with gangsters by the society Uncle Da has been competing with Wucheng Liao Jun who studied with Uncle Da under the same master ATai grew estranged with his father and the troupe and went to Taipei to study Rock music until a mysterious old man in blue coat bids him home