Recently, there has been a new Chinese opera.
Produced by a gold medal screenwriter from multiple masterpieces.
The heat is unparalleled, but the controversy is not small.
As soon as it started broadcasting, it was scolded and hit the hot search.
Boycotted by netizens and requested to be removed from the shelves.
But gradually, some people also expressed their grievances and believed that the drama was not so unbearable.
Out of curiosity, Xiangyu also followed the trend and pursued the drama.
What exactly is this play like? Is it unfair to be scolded this time?
Strike while the iron is hot, let’s have a chat – ‘The Back Wave’
Xiangyu watched it for a long time and found that there were quite a few curses carried by the play.
Some people curse ‘the plot is outrageous’.
Because there was this scene in the first episode——
The delivery man was rejected by the customer due to being late for delivery.
She was so angry that she threw out a large bowl of Spicy Hot Pot and threw it all over the customer.
There are also those who curse ‘dad style’.
Wu Gang plays Ren Xinzheng, an old Chinese medicine practitioner who blames his wife for all the heavy household chores and teaches others all day.
When I was teaching my daughter as a disciple, I actually boasted about “cultivating good wives who are good at managing their families for society”.
Also, he cursed this drama for “smearing traditional Chinese medicine”.
In the drama, the old Chinese medicine doctor prescribed a prescription for treating paralyzed patients, which was “300 year old house tiles+child urine”.
It is also said that it is recorded in both ancient books and the teacher’s father’s secret biography.
It does seem quite outrageous.
With the psychological preparation of stepping on thunder, I began to pursue the drama, but found that there were suspicions of taking out of context in the hot search.
The ‘outrageous’ plot is actually more like a deliberate attempt to highlight the protagonist’s personality.
The Sun Toutou played by Zhao Lusi, whose parents both died and grew up in a welfare home.
I went out to work at the age of 18 and have been working in various industries.
Lack of tutoring, lack of etiquette, and constant bullying are the characteristics of this character.
The scene of delivering food was deliberately exaggerated, not only to highlight the character’s personality, but also to lay the groundwork for the later plot.
Because Sun Toutou was discovered to be the legitimate descendant of the Jiang family’s acupuncture technique.
Traditional Chinese medicine expert Ren Xinzheng attaches great importance to inheritance and wants to accept her as an apprentice and teach her medical skills.
Unexpectedly, this is a ‘stone monkey’, far from the ideal ‘traveler’.
This has only sparked the sparks between the back and front waves, showing us the difficulty of inheriting traditional Chinese medicine.
Moreover, although such a plot may seem outrageous, it may not necessarily be untrue.
There have been similar news in reality.
The delivery man himself exceeded the time limit, but unreasonably smashed the food at the customer, the details were like a replica.
Say ‘dad flavor’ again.
The character’s paternity is indeed a certainty.
But when it comes to this issue, it cannot be separated from the background of the play.
Ren Xinzheng is a great master of traditional Chinese medicine, which inherently relies on Confucianism.
Moreover, the traditional family model of “Yang leads Yin follows” is adopted by both parents and ancestors.
He has been influenced from a young age, and now he reaches middle age with both fame and fortune. He is admired by many stars outside and is the head of the family inside.
In terms of character logic, it would be strange if such a character were not a ‘father’.
Actor Wu Gang also responded to this controversy.
He acknowledges the imperfections of the characters and instead believes that this is the highlight of the script.
He said that when performing, he referred to his father’s generation and restored the “father’s flavor” of the older generation.
It is the characters that have a ‘father like’ flavor, not the works.
In fact, in the play, the female characters were used to criticize the “dad style”.
The portrayal of the female protagonist, Sun Toutou, as someone who does not speak in a proper manner, also has the intention of offending authority.
Only she dared to boldly criticize Ren Xinzheng’s unnecessary male chauvinism when her master and mother argued.
The younger generation is actually driving the growth of the older generation.
The teacher’s mother has been repeatedly asked to tolerate her husband, make sacrifices and concessions for the family.
In the mouth of her parents, considering herself is’ narrow-minded ‘, and in the future,’ being exposed to light ‘is her greatest blessing.
He was a person who did great things, and he brought out a good disciple. You, as a teacher, can also keep your name in the annals of history
She retorted, ‘What is the surname of the wife of the sage of Confucius?’
Instead, he criticized the male dominated society’s suppression of female subjectivity and the obliteration of female history through the use of characters.
Furthermore, the criticism of “smearing traditional Chinese medicine” is actually more caused by taking out of context.
That’s right, there is indeed an outrageous prescription for ’tile+child urine’ in the drama.
But when you see it later, you will find that the setting in the drama is just Ren Xinzheng’s nonsense.
Because there was indeed no cure left, the paralyzed little girl was sentenced to “death” by Western medicine, and both she and her dependent mother had a tendency to commit suicide.
Ren Xinzheng couldn’t bear it and concocted a strange formula that made it difficult to find medicinal herbs. In fact, it was just to give them the belief to survive.
In addition, it is also said that the elderly eat too much meat when they are sick and need to go to temples on various mountains to eliminate karma.
It’s also because the old man is critically ill, and the doctor wants her to see the scenery and have a pleasant mood.
Only when many viewers roast when they see half of it, or just watch the second creation clips, will they generalize.
In essence, these plots not only add drama, but also strengthen the characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine’s emphasis on the integration of body and mind.
Screenwriter Liu Liu spent seven years creating this drama and specially obtained a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She does not lack professional knowledge.
But as she said, this drama wants to “spread the spirit” and “spread the idea” more than to spread medical skills.
From this, it can be seen that many dissatisfaction and negative reviews are actually aimed at the imperfect reality.
This drama only presents these issues.
In fact, many people who are engaged in the traditional Chinese medicine industry or have a medical background actually believe that this drama is commendable.
Although Xiangyu does not understand traditional Chinese medicine, she has watched many curses related to traditional Chinese medicine.
As we all know, this is a topic that explodes on social media, and opinions are always polarized.
Meanwhile, many film and television works depict traditional Chinese medicine only at the level of traditional cultural symbols.
It is rare that this drama pierced through the window paper and boldly captured the current dilemma of traditional Chinese medicine.
The first is the dilemma of public opinion.
Although traditional Chinese medicine is a traditional Chinese culture, it has always been called pseudoscience, metaphysics, and Jianghu deception.
In the drama, especially young people, regardless of major or minor illnesses, will choose Western medicine that takes effect faster.
Even in the eyes of many medical students, the unclear taboos and adverse reactions of taking traditional Chinese medicine are completely a scam.
Secondly, the dilemma of practitioners.
In the field of traditional Chinese medicine, the most emphasis is on seniority, and everyone wants to find “old Chinese medicine”.
Moreover, traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the inheritance of family background, and many renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have come from noble families.
This makes it difficult for medical students without backgrounds, even after graduating from prestigious schools, to find suitable jobs.
In the drama, there is a graduate student from a medical school who has been studying hard for many years. After graduation, he has to go to a roadside shop to do massage to make a living.
Therefore, this drama highlights the challenges of education and inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine.
Medical students themselves have a high threshold.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the integration of literature and science, testing cultural heritage, and fewer people learn it.
Many schools cultivate traditional Chinese medicine students according to the Western medicine model, resulting in insignificant teaching results.
Many of the unique techniques of traditional Chinese medicine have no successors.
This drama not only presents difficulties, but also provides a path of exploration – the aftermath.
Many people believe that it is unreasonable for someone like Sun Toutou, who lacks a medical foundation, to become a inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine.
But this is actually the intention of the drama party. Only by breaking old can we establish new, and by breaking big can we achieve great success.
Moreover, compared to the traditional cognitive approach of learning traditional Chinese medicine step by step.
The story of a young person’s unexpected takeover will make this previously unpopular theme more easily accepted.
The setting of the outsider protagonist gives the audience a sense of immersion and brings joy to the development department.
Sun Toutou’s path of growth has gradually broken and rebuilt people’s understanding of traditional Chinese medicine.
At the beginning, she and her peers had a questioning and resisting attitude towards traditional Chinese medicine.
Just as people generally believe that emergency treatment can only be sought from Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine can only be adjusted slowly.
Also, studying medicine requires a high degree and it is impossible to become a monk halfway through.
But the first aid knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine was introduced in the play.
Someone accidentally fainted or lost control of their emotions.
It is entirely possible to understand the disease by feeling the pulse of traditional Chinese medicine, and to rescue it through acupuncture and moxibustion and acupoint pressing.
And the doctor said that learning these skills only takes a few days.
Ordinary people can also read the “Emperor’s Internal Classic” and master many methods and techniques for treating and preventing diseases.
But when Sun Toutou gained confidence, he encountered difficulties again.
Because the master told her that although the techniques can be mastered in a short period of time, it takes a lifetime to understand the principles behind them.
Once, when Sun Toutou was helping at the medical clinic, he encountered a patient who was in the same situation as his previous grandmother and followed the example of his master using the phrase ‘karma’.
As a result, he was reprimanded for “following the cat and drawing the tiger”.
Because the martial arts of traditional Chinese medicine are all behind the scenes, many seemingly simple diagnoses are actually based on comprehensive and in-depth control of the patient’s physical condition.
Therefore, Sun Toutou’s bumpy journey of learning medicine ultimately leads us to the essence of traditional Chinese medicine.
It is also mentioned in the play that both Chinese and Western medicine are aimed at saving lives, but the difference is that——
The development direction of Western medicine is from essence to micro, focusing on human diseases; Traditional Chinese medicine is from macro to broad, focusing on the sick.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not only a medical field, but also deeply rooted in the fertile soil of traditional culture. It also requires the analogy of humanistic knowledge.
The essence of traditional Chinese medicine is to treat the disease without treating it. The “old” of traditional Chinese medicine is the power of understanding and insight into life.
The widespread dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine is not only for the purpose of nourishing illness and health, but also for the purpose of nourishing the heart and mind.
Therefore, in the drama, we can see a large amount of dry goods.
It can be widely applied in various situations of traditional Chinese medicine.
If someone faints or is bitten by a snake, traditional Chinese medicine can also play a role.
You can also learn practical knowledge in daily life.
If there is a mild eczema in a local area of the body.
You can boil a few eggs first, and then put the yolk into the pot to refine and extract the fat.
Apply a small amount of filtered egg yolk oil to the affected area every day.
As long as the wound is not punctured, it can heal after 3-5 times.
Pine trees can not only make tea and wine.
Boiling and rinsing the branches of pine trees can treat toothache in patients with dental caries.
In terms of health preservation, it is even more important to look at traditional Chinese medicine.
Rub your stomach before bedtime.
Place your hands first on the Tanzhong acupoint in the middle of your chest, and then pan down to your navel.
Cover the navel with the palm of your right hand, press your right hand with your left hand, and knead counterclockwise.
Rubbing 25 times before bedtime every night can help you fall asleep.
Summer Solstice Health Preservation Soup.
The summer solstice is the switch for the conversion of yin and yang between heaven and earth. Drinking health preserving soup is like adding oil to a lamp.
In the drama, a bowl of summer white tiger soup is made with watermelon juice as the main ingredient, and gypsum, anemarrhena, japonica rice, and licorice are also added.
It can relieve heat, enter yin with yang, and not feel cold.
Xiangyu also gained some cold knowledge.
For example, chairs with wheels are not conducive to lumbar health.
Because when we move around in chairs, we need strong waist strength.
If there is no strong core strength in the lower back, it will cause the lumbar spine to rotate, which is highly likely to cause spinal dislocation.
After the broadcast of this episode, related topics also made headlines.
Many migrant workers have the idea of changing chairs.
These dry goods do not rely on rigid output.
It is based on exquisite craftsmanship and incorporates the beauty of traditional culture.
The drama narrates in the natural chronological order of the 24 solar terms of the year and traditional festivals, cleverly introducing the characteristics of the solar terms and health tips.
Qingming Festival ancestor worship, Gu Yu tea picking, Dragon Boat Festival mugwort picking, Mid Autumn Festival moxibustion
Teachers and students go to the deep forest to collect herbs and search for treasures, and eat and live with the farmers.
Collect wild ginseng for thousands of years, worship mountain gods, and open up an open and humble mind to all things in nature.
Zhong Lingyuexiu nurtures essence, and the breeze blows the face, combining heaven and man.
It not only embodies the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine, but also leads to the source of culture.
At this point, it will be discovered that the true intention of this drama is to explore and pay tribute to traditional culture.
Traditional Chinese medicine is more like a medium, carrying the beliefs of the past and the future regarding cultural inheritance, allowing more people to feel the unique charm of traditional Chinese culture.
It has to be said that this has already been a major breakthrough in domestic dramas.
Domestic dramas were once an important window for the export of traditional Chinese culture.
Traditional Chinese medicine themes have produced many high-quality Chinese operas, such as “Da Zhai Men”, “Li Shizhen”, and “The Divine Doctor Xilaile”.
Looking back at the present, as we can see, for a long time, this theme has disappeared and been replaced by monotonous fantasy and fairy puppet dramas.
Traditional Chinese medicine related content often appears in documentaries, and the popularity is generally not high, which also reflects the dilemma of traditional Chinese medicine inheritance.
But in fact, with the increasing pressure of modern social life, sub-health has become the New Normal.
Many young people are actually very interested in health preservation.
Will Liu’s exploding red, soaking medlar in a thermos cup to form a hot stem.
This all indicates that traditional Chinese medicine not only has the necessity of inheritance, but also has great potential for widespread dissemination.
This drama timely captures this point, using a relaxed and pleasant tone that is more suitable for young people, and infiltrating deep traditional Chinese medicine culture into it, producing the first modern urban drama with traditional Chinese medicine themes.
Not only will it bring more people closer to traditional Chinese medicine and gain knowledge of medicine and the industry; It can also inject a force of calm water and deep flow into people in the modern society where people are restless and rely on the tradition of being upright and virtuous.
Even though this drama is not perfect, at least it breaks the homogenization of creation and opens up a new cultural path.
To borrow a sentence from the play——
Dao is a practice, virtue is a practice. If culture does not have the effect of transformation, how can it be called culture
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