The film of “Home of Capons” starts with “my” memories, stretching to the family of Yu-Ming Luo who made a living by “castrating chickens” for two generations. The family passed down the long-established skill of spaying chickens which supported them for over six decades with rich rewards from this tradition. The story began with Mr. Shu-Rong Luo who was confident and certain of the chicken neutering skill and industry, being followed by the inheritance and hesitation of Mr. Yu-Ming Luo and Mr. Zhen-Lun Luo’s agitation and evasion. It was as if time gave this tradition an inevitable predestination. From resplendence to fall, from the noon to sunset, the author hoped to record this traditional artistry with a video camera, searching for a balance between tradition and modern times.

It was the most profound in “my” memory to see the author’s mom busying herself with preparing sacrificial offerings, and a large capon was always the spotlight among other offerings. From capons used by families when they offered sacrifices to gods or ancestors to a capon contest held for religious ceremonies by temples, the forms of sacrificial offerings used to bean important part of traditional rituals, which showed the importance of a capon master in traditional culture as well. However, in reality, traditional concepts have been simplified and have declined gradually. Most traditional meanings and forms are constantly waning, which also influences the survival of some traditional industries. Therefore, when “the home of capons” passed

down to the third generation, the successor of the industry had to look for other jobs to make ends meet because of the sharp decline of number of capons. If the ritual of “capons” is replaced by other sacrificial offerings, will the industry forever disappear because of this?