The couple looked up at the stars again. Tu Youyou said that for so many years, she was very envious of the "hunter" in the sky, who could always be energetic and had no risk of aging. The husband said that even God is flesh and blood, and that running in the wild will be injured and sick, but he believes that "those who chase science and truth will never grow old."
This dialogue belongs to the husband and wife but also has a profound meaning, it ends with "Tu Youyou's Gift" of "Meritorious Service", and invisibly lights up the entire unit. Why did Tu Youyou make a great contribution to human health, and why did she become a recipient of the "Order of the Republic" and a Nobel Prize winner? The main creative team led by Zheng Xiaolong, screenwriter Wang Xiaoping and lead actor Zhou Xun returned the story of the great Chinese scientists to the lyricism of "people", without flying in the air or preaching in general, but landing on the ground like the archetypal characters, entering into it and being out of the ordinary fireworks, and constructing a noble spiritual history that is easy to see.
From this, the audience knows Tu Youyou, who has no god-like aura, but who keeps his life as quiet and indifferent as artemisia leaves, as upright and resolute as artemisia stalks, and seeks treasure in the hardships of traditional Chinese medicine Hanhai; he also believes that this Chinese female scientist who has spent her life chasing science and truth will never grow old.
"Invisible" is written in "seeing", and the spirit of persistent pursuit of truth is uniquely spoken
Compared with the first few units of "Meritorious Service", Tu Youyou, as the first Chinese native scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Science and the first female scientist to win China's highest national science and technology award, is a prototype figure that is relatively familiar to the public. Depicting a highlight moment for a well-known feat, from which angle to cut in, how to both adhere to the truth and maintain a fresh sense of drama, is naturally no small challenge. Writing "Visible" in "Invisible" is a unit that gives a unique account of the scientist's persistent pursuit of truth.
Tu Youyou in the play often has "invisible" times. In the unit, when she walked on the road, she "couldn't see" the colleagues and superiors who passed by, and got a "variety of" evaluations; in the face of the unanimous opinions of the three major experts in pathology, she "couldn't see" the authoritative conclusions and was accused of "seeing no one in sight". At home, she "couldn't see" the housework, nor could she "see" the poor living conditions, and even the family letters in her pocket to inform her parents of the upcoming arrival, and the little people's books in her bag to remind her to pick up her children after work, she saw them all and seemed to have not seen them at all.
In the ordinary vision, the ordinary human feelings seem to be shielded in Tu Youyou's world, and the observation and color in the secular concept are even more isolated from her. But in the play, it is this person who is "in the troubled world and the heart is in the glass cover" who can always unexpectedly open up the five senses, see, hear, and receive messages belonging to her. Tu Youyou turned a blind eye to the content of the meeting, but when she heard the transfer to Sichuan, she suddenly caught up with the conversation; she always did not remember to bring the key to the house, but she was fascinated by the principle of making a bowl of wine and brewing that her husband had talked about; she completely forgot the stop time halfway off the train, but listened to the conversation between a mother and son buying pomegranates.
In the stark contrast between "invisible" and "seen", the play works together with the actors to portray the image of a scientist who is focused on the subject and is fully committed to research. Tu Youyou can hear Sichuan, provided that the Artemisia annua fangzi she has in mind is in Shudi; she is interested in wine brewing, it turns out that the research group can not solve the key element of artemisia annua's low inhibition rate of malaria parasites lies in the word "temperature"; she can associate the disintegration of the pill from the pomegranate seed, only because the biggest question mark in her mind at that time was why the 100% effective artemisia annua crude extract when she tried the drug was completely ineffective in clinical trials.
Tu Youyou is also a mortal, she can establish extraordinary feats in ordinary days and days, without relying on partial luck, the so-called "blessing to the heart" is actually a blossoming fruit that will reverberate with memories. And to uncover the representation of "seeing" or not, the value judgment of scientists is ultimately science and truth. It is precisely because the direction of her heart lies in science and truth, and her vision on the road of scientific research has no forbidden areas, no discipline, no seniority, and no other "factions" other than business, and will only argue for facts, data, and rigorous truths. "Tu Youyou's Gift" writes a crystal pure heart of truth-seeking, and it establishes the distinct scientist spirit of the archetypal characters.
Write affectionately with indifference, and set off great love by the emotions that people can do
If "no one in sight" is a special performance of Tu Youyou's focus on the inner research of the world in the play, then the emotional expression that has always been unfazed is another distinctive female expression of hers.
Different from the traditional Chinese concept of a virtuous wife and a good mother, Tu Youyou is undoubtedly indifferent or even absent in the role of the family. She is preoccupied with research, and the housework is handled by her husband Li Tingzhao, and the two children are entrusted to their parents in ningbo and a kindergarten in Beijing.
There are several scenes of parents and children in the play, and countless people are in tears. Tu Youyou rushed to Sichuan to find a private test, full of heart and time to grab time, taking advantage of the opportunity of external transfer to visit. When her parents and their youngest daughter trekked thousands of miles to Visit Her family in Beijing, she was driving an ox cart, riding a tractor, running on her legs, and walking through the mountain houses in Sichuan. When she returned to Beijing, after Grandma Liu reminded her, she remembered that the family letter informing her parents of the upcoming beijing had never been opened. Looking at the home that was cleaned up by her parents, opening her favorite Ningbo specialties on the table, she burst into tears, not only Tu Youyou on the screen. Over the past few years, the research group successfully purified artemisinin, and Tu Youyou finally had time to travel in Shanghai to visit her family in Ningbo intermittently. In her hometown, the father's door bolt was tied and taken down, and the title in her daughter's mouth finally changed from "she" to "mother", but within two days, Hainan's clinical trial had a problem, and returning to Beijing immediately became her decision. When they were separated, the young Xiaojun hugged the new shoes sent by his mother and was reluctant to let go, even if the shoes were bought by mistake and became two right feet. Seeing that it was again an endless separation, the old father's trembling hands as he read the newspaper, who said that he did not touch the bottom of the audience's heart.
Under the exquisite and delicate performances of Zhou Xun, Zhang Songwen, Xi Meijuan, Bai Zhidi and other powerful actors, Tu Youyou, who was complained and tolerated by her parents in the family relationship and unconditionally supported and protected by her husband, was clearly visible. Her relatives guarded the female scientist with the most tender affection in the world, allowing her to temporarily put aside her sensibility and devote her whole time to reason. Female power in "The Gift of Tu Youyou" is not a gentle interpretation in the usual sense. In the category of "everyone", the screenwriter left more of Tu Youyou's sensibility to patients who were ignorant of life. In Hainan, she placed an frangipani flower next to the bed of the unfortunate little girl who died of illness, and it was difficult to find suitable antimalarial drugs. The research team finally opened up the situation on Artemisia annua, in order to step up the time, she did not hesitate to try the drug, just to get enough sample clinical data in the high incidence of malaria, and could not wait for the anxiety of "another 365 days", full of her deeply buried tenderness and hot intestines.
The screenwriter uses delicate brushstrokes to observe the general life and the emotions of ordinary people, and writes an indifferent but never ruthless scientist. She also has a deep affection for flesh and blood, but in the scientific research that races against time, she chooses to integrate the small family into everyone. And the audience can measure the extraordinary of the meritorious figure with common sense in the perspective of the head-up. Just like Tu Youyou, when all her heart is related to "curing the disease and saving people's lives", the great love of the healer who is compassionate and compassionate is self-evident.
With a realistic background to depict and observe the historical background, the Chinese value of the Chinese spirit is dazzlingly visible
Zheng Xiaolong is the general director of "Meritorious Service" and the director of the unit of "Tu Youyou's Gift". "From beginning to end, Tu Youyou's biggest requirement for us, and what she has repeatedly emphasized, is the word 'true', don't deliberately elevate, don't lose the collective effort." In his eyes, "truth" is not only the bottom line requirement of the prototype characters for the script, but also the criterion for the creation of a major realistic theme. In "Tu Youyou's Gift", "authenticity" is reflected in the plainness of the shaping of meritorious characters, the truth-seeking of scientific research details, and also in the historical background of "collective efforts".
Tu Youyou once said with great affection: "Artemisinin is a gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world. "The mind of Chinese scientists is integrated into the real background of the play by the script, and in the historical information of FengZhan, the bumps and repetitions of artemisinin research, the profundity of traditional Chinese medicine, and the Chinese values and Chinese spirit that generations of Chinese researchers have dedicated to human health are visible."
At the beginning of the unit, the play writes out the origin of the "523" scientific research project and the origin of the world. In the 1960s, the Vietnam War was mired in a tug-of-war, with severe malaria sweeping through the war zone, and the spread of small mosquitoes was far more lethal than that of U.S. artillery shells. The general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, was so distraught that he personally wrote to Mao Zedong to ask the Chinese side for antimalarial drugs and prescriptions. Under the special historical background, many scientific research units and hundreds of scientific researchers across the country have collectively cooperated and worked hard to tackle key problems, hoping to find new antimalarial drugs as soon as possible. The opening of the series clearly pointed out that when Tu Youyou entered the "523" project with the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, nearly 100 scientific research units under the State Science and Technology Commission, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences also participated in the project. From Changshan alkali to the replacement of new scientific research ideas, Chinese medicine has sent a "match" to today's people across thousands of years. Tu Youyou polished it and illuminated the development path of finding a needle in a haystack without fear of "stupid kung fu".
"Tu Youyou's Gift" respects historical truth and points out the reality that countless people have made efforts to fight malaria before artemisinin. Also under the logic of historical truth, the play shapes the dedication of scientific researchers in times of material scarcity. In order to prepare the drugs needed for the experiment, Tu Youyou led the research team to use a water tank for pickled pickles instead of a conventional container to extract drugs in batches. Funds are limited, time is more limited, even without protective equipment, the team members are at risk of skin allergies, drug poisoning in the test. And "next time don't look for dogs, find me" Qu Guangming, always tighten a string but will support the subject research at a critical moment, Lao Xu and other people, is not the conventional sense of the "villain", the series let the audience see that in the face of the national righteousness, everyone with a small silent action to promote the progress of the country's various undertakings.
"Tu Youyou's Gift" began with mosquitoes on the battlefield of Vietnam, and finally Tu Youyou himself spoke at the Nobel Prize Ceremony, "Artemisinin is a gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world." In the echo of the beginning and the end, the play implicitly reveals the great value of Chinese scientists and treasures of traditional Chinese medicine to all mankind.
Source/China Women's Daily (ID:fnb198410)
Author/Feng Wei
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