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Director: Li National / Zheng Weiwen / He Zhenhua / Li Yichong
Starring: Liu Shishi / Wallace Huo / Huang Xuan / Li Chengyuan / Yuan Wenkang / Jin Chen / He Qing
First aired: 2016
Plot Summary:
Though the Ming dynasty enjoyed prosperity, its rigid Confucian moral codes kept women in a lowly status, barring them from practicing medicine and leaving their private ailments untreatable. The Tan family, a renowned medical lineage whose ancestors had served as imperial physicians for generations, suffered a devastating calamity after being framed by treacherous foes. From that day forward, they adhered to an ancestral decree forbidding any descendant from practicing medicine. Yet the astute Tan Yunxian, steeped in the art from childhood, secretly studied traditional Chinese medicine with her grandmother. Not only did she take up the healing profession, earning praise and support from ordinary people through her skillful hands and compassionate heart, but she also gradually nurtured a deep resolve to save women across the land.
Thus, Yunxian not only encountered numerous difficulties and obstacles on her path to mastering medicine but also had to contend with the onslaught of feudal propriety and prevailing social conventions. Yet, driven by her profound passion for the medical arts, she surmounted countless challenges: broadening her knowledge, embracing diverse traditions, and forging her own distinctive school of thought. Moreover, she broke free from the rigid constraints of Confucian etiquette, pioneering and establishing a system of female physicians. Her efforts extended beyond healing the body to nurturing the soul, and from saving individuals to serving the nation, thereby disseminating and elevating the cultural heritage of Chinese medicine. In the end, she became a renowned national physician of her generation, celebrated throughout the land.
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