"Artemisinin is a small step in the process of human conquest of malaria and a gift from traditional Chinese medicine to mankind." —Tu Youyou
In the eight units of "Meritorious Service", two units tell the story of two female masters among the medal winners of the Order of the Republic, one is Shen Jilan, played by Jiang Xin, and the other is Tu Youyou, a female scientist played by Zhou Xun.
The director of this unit is Zheng Xiaolong, the general director of this TV series. The screenwriter is Zheng Xiaolong's wife, Ms. Wang Xiaoping, and the lead actor is the famous actor Zhou Xun.
Interestingly, the screenwriters of "Zhen Huan Biography" and "Mi Yue Biography" directed by Zheng Xiaolong are his wife Wang Xiaoping, and "Zhen Huan Biography" originally asked Zhou Xun to play the heroine Zhen Huan, only because of Zhou Xun's schedule problems, the two could not cooperate, however, a few years later, Zheng Xiaolong's "Red Sorghum" was cooperated, but the screenwriter of "Red Sorghum" was not Ms. Wang Xiaoping.
In "Meritorious Service" and "Tu Youyou's Gift", Wang Xiaoping, Zheng Xiaolong and Zhou Xun cooperated to make Tu Youyou's image vividly appear in front of the audience.
The names of each unit of "Meritorious Service" are very interesting, such as "Huang Xuhua's Deep Dive", "Shen Jilan's Proposal", "Sun Jiadong's Heavenly Road", "Tu Youyou's Gift", "Yuan Longping's Dream" are all related to the industry they are engaged in and their performance.
The title of "Tu Youyou's Gift" comes from Tu Youyou's speech at the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Tu Youyou said: "Artemisinin is China's gift to the world's human beings. ”
And the person who found this gift was None other than Tu Youyou.
The story begins with the worldwide disease malaria raging in Southeast Asia.
In the 1960s and 1960s, the Vietnam War was in a tug-of-war, with severe malaria sweeping through the war zone, and in Vietnam, located in the jungles of Southeast Asia, the epidemic spread by small mosquitoes was far more lethal than that of US artillery shells.
The Vietnamese side was so anxious that it personally wrote a letter to the Chinese side for help in supporting antimalarial drugs and prescriptions. In such a 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.
Although malaria is spreading in the jungles of Southeast Asia, it threatens the whole world, and our medical community cannot delay in accepting this glorious and arduous task.
So, our heroine appeared.
She had short hair, wore a pair of myopic glasses, wore a white coat, and walked over without squinting, she directly bumped into a man in a military uniform, this man was no one else, it was their leader, Zhang Jianguang, director of the Revolutionary Committee, and she didn't even have a sorry, so proud and arrogant that another leader, Lao Xu, was very dissatisfied, such an arrogant and big-name woman, who gave her confidence.
And they did not expect that this proud woman was the medical expert Tu Youyou they were going to invite.
And Tu Youyou's second confrontation with them was in the office, and Zhang Jianguang saw that she refused to sit down, thinking that she was a little nervous in front of the leader, so. Tell her not to be nervous, and as a result, she said, "I'm either nervous or I don't want to sit." ”
Leaving the two leaders stunned, Zhang Jianguang was assigning tasks to her, and Tu Youyou interrupted him and began to correct mistakes super strongly. He also said that he was supplementing the leader's words.
This meeting made the two leaders have a deep impression of Tu Youyou, and the audience also had a deep impression of Zhou Xun's Tu Youyou, who is this, whether it is Jiu'er or Ruyi.
How could Tu Youyou be like this? Although Tu Lao's technical people will not be smooth and do not understand the sophistication of human feelings, in the eyes of today's people, the emotional intelligence is very low, but it will not be dragged like this.
However, Tu Lao recognized Zhou Xun's Tu Youyou.
We also feel real when we see it, because Tu Youyou is short-sighted, and immersed in medical research work, it is difficult to deal with leaders, and there is no sophistication in the eyes, let alone understand any politics.
Bumping into a leader is similar to bumping into someone else, and she is very busy, has a lot of things, and doesn't care about polite things, and since she doesn't ask for leaders, she doesn't need to be nervous.
She doesn't sit, it's a habit, because her mind is in the lab, and she just wants to listen to the leader quickly, and then continue to go into the lab.
And when she hears someone speaking in front of her intellectually wrong, or incomplete, out of professional habit, she must be super corrective, which is her professional habit as a medical scientist.
Therefore, Zhang Jianguang also took a fancy to her and felt that this small woman was a woman who could take on big responsibilities.
And Lao Xu also gradually saw from Tu Youyou's pride that she was persistent in her inner pursuit of medical career, so when Tu Youyou missed the meal time because of her research on artemisinin and was harassed by the canteen chef, she immediately stood up and solved the meal problem for Tu Youyou.
"Tu Youyou" is based on Tu Youyou's search for artemisinin for human beings, which is the clue to fight malaria, and why does Tu Youyou focus on artemisinin?
The story begins with Tu Youyou's artemisinin complex.
And this artemisinin complex originated from Tu Youyou in childhood, because every time the Dragon Boat Festival collected wormwood, she was stupid about wormwood and artemisia, and every time she picked wormwood, she collected artemisia home.
And when she grew up and was able to distinguish between artemisia annua and wormwood, because of the special reasons of the times, although people could still eat rice dumplings, they could not pass the Dragon Boat Festival, because the Dragon Boat Festival was a sealed cultivation.
Perhaps, in her childhood, Tu Youyou had the emerald green of Artemisia in her heart.
And when she studied the traditional Chinese medicine to fight malaria, artemisia annua swayed in front of his eyes, emitting a unique medicinal fragrance.
The aroma of Artemisia annua is not acceptable to everyone, it is very strong, very rushing, just like Tu Youyou's personality. When she found Artemisia annua in the barren grass on the outskirts of Beijing, she was immediately moved, she asked the team members to measure the height of the artemisia annua, made a record, and then asked the team members to take the whole artemisia annua into the laboratory, process it in sections, and then fry and analyze it.
Their scientific research team called "523" went to the logistics every day to receive a large amount of artemisia annua, so that the logistics thought they were feeding donkeys.
Tu Youyou got on the horse and used a few large pickle jars to study the research, so that others thought they were going to make kimchi or feed the pigs. Tu Youyou's study of artemisinin was also the craziest era of the political movement, and their research group was dismissed, and she was also sent down to do the work she least wanted. So she had to continue her research on artemisinin.
In this way, Tu Youyou worked tirelessly to give the most precious gift to the world and to relieve the pain of the suffering patients in the world.
Behind her, there is a strong backing silently supporting her, this is Zhang Songwen played by Li Tingzhao, Tu Youyou's husband, Tu Youyou is single-minded in his work, throwing everything in the family to her husband, and Li Tingzhao spoils Tu Youyou as a daughter, under her meticulous care, Tu Youyou has become a little confused in life.
For example, Tu Youyou will always forget to bring the key when she goes home; her husband is at home and there is nothing, but the husband went to the May Seventh Cadre School, although she was told thousands of instructions before leaving, but she will still forget to bring the key, fortunately, the neighbor Liu Da Niang has a spare key, every time she forgets to bring the key, Liu Da Niang will smile and open the door for her.
He said he would pick up his child from school, but he was left behind because of his work. It was easy to pick up her daughter after a business trip in Hainan, but it was very late, and the daughter lay on her back, saying that her mother had not picked her up for 182 days.
This detail brought tears to the eyes.
Because of the selfless work, the relationship between the estrangement and the parents, so that the father has been grumpy; the parents, accompanied by the eldest sister, traveled thousands of miles to take the eldest granddaughter to see the daughter, and the result was empty. The father was angry, even if he raised this daughter in vain, the mother helped her daughter clean up the messy home and wash the dishes and chopsticks left by her daughter, but she sympathized with her daughter's life was too miserable. She had time to visit her young daughter, but she bought the wrong shoes and let her wear the shoes of the wind.
On the train, because a mother and daughter's words inspired her scientific research, she got off the train in a confused way, the train drove away, and her luggage was taken away.
Obviously, such a Tu Youyou is a rare sight for the audience, and it is also the pyrotechnic Tu Youyou that Zheng Xiaolong and Wang Ping most want to express to the audience.
Tu Youyou looks weak and quiet, but she is a big woman, after the development of artemisinin, by doing experiments on small animals, and then doing experiments on large animals, however, to be applied to the clinic, it is necessary to do experiments on people, so she took the initiative to undertake the first batch of trial volunteers.
In this case, her husband took the initiative to take the drug test, as he said: "I am your guinea pig." "What is love, two people can look up at the stars hand in hand, but also be able to take on housework for each other, silently do each other's backing, but do not think of sacrifice, more importantly, be each other's guinea pigs."
They don't say "I love you" every day. However, Li Tingzhao repeatedly asked his wife before leaving, knowing that his wife had a straight temper, although he would also remind his wife to pay attention to speaking, but he understood his wife, was happy for the other party's cause, and had the courage and responsibility to be a guinea pig for the other party.
While Tu Youyou was taking 3 mg of artemisinin in other volunteers, she increased the dose herself and took twice as much as others, which also damaged her liver.
Although they took artemisinin themselves, it proved that artemisinin was not toxic, but in clinical use, there was still a problem, tu youyou they continued to study to find out the problem, until the experiment was completely successful.
Under the unremitting efforts of Tu Youyou and her team for decades, artemisinin was finally successfully developed. As Tu Youyou said, artemisinin is a gift from Chinese medicine to the world.
Tu Youyou also won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for it.
Tu Youyou's outstanding contributions were recognized by the country and the people, and she was awarded the Order of the Republic.
And "Tu Youyou's Gift" in "Meritorious Service" is a gift from the artists to Tu Youyou and her family, as well as her team. Zhou Xun, who played Tu Youyou, was recognized by Tu Lao.
In the six episodes, we not only see Zhou Xun's good acting skills, but also the wonderful performances of Rong Guang, Song Jialun, Zhang Songwen, Xi Meijuan, Bai Zhidi and others.
There are also two small actors who play Tu Youyou's daughter, who are also very spirited.
And Li Wenling, who has only one or two shots, Chen Baoguo also dedicates a wonderful moment.
It is no wonder that after this unit was played, the Douban score rose to 9.1., we were moved by Tu Youyou's decades of research on artemisinin, deeply moved by her and Li Tingzhao's marital love, more moved by Tu Youyou's affection with her parents and daughters, and of course, also moved by the high wind and bright festival of cadres who supported and protected her, such as Zhang Jianguang, Lao Xu and other cadres.
"Yo yo deer singing, eating the apple of the wild." Tu Lao's name is taken from the Book of Poetry, Xiao Ya Lu Ming, and Artemisia annua is also found in the Book of Poetry.
Artemisia annua, originally an inconspicuous plant, was discovered by Tu Youyou for its value, making it a weapon to overcome diseases and giving Chinese herbal medicine its unique aroma.
And the personalities of Artemisia annua and Tu Youyou are also very appropriate.