Canada Golden Maple International Film Festival      2023 Vancouver

Inheriting Skills in Green Field

Inheriting Skills in Green Field

Genre
Documentary
Region
China
Director
冯晓华 符宗勇

Introduction to Hanging Pot to Save the World , Inheriting skills in Green Field In Summer , in snow mountain, in this simple cottage, at seven o 'clock around every morning, the 95-year-old Naxi doctor of traditional folk medicine, HE Shixiu begins treatment patients. It has beenlasting for more than 30 years. More than a decade ago, HE’s medica clinic was reported in the magazine of TIME in New York. This ordinary cottage is a luck place of happiness for many patients on earth. Min Zhaoxing, his 94-year-old wife, is illiterate ,while has spent more than half a century with her college-educated husband, who is proficient in medicine and fluent in English. You wash my clothes and I boil your medicine. This love has lasted for more than seventy years. Deep and exciting feeling has been cultivated in flat days.Not only medical skills has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, but also traditional Chinese culture deeply embedded in folk medicine. What HE Shixiu's son inherited was the art of medicine, as well as those warm traditions.In this summer, in south of Yunnan Province, in the village where SHANG Weng ,the DAI doctor of traditional Chinese medicine living, the biggest festival of this year came. SHANG is one of the most respectable people in this village . Before the carnival began, he slipped away, because the more the man is respected, the more water he will receive in this festival in this place.SHANG has a unique skill of touching. He diagnoses patients by touching their skin, including the tip of their nose and ears. Like other DAI doctors, Shang rarely uses pulse for diagnosis. Yunbu ,his daughter, has learnt his father's medical skills. Dai doctors believe that there are spirits in all living things. Like all DAI people, they have devout belief. The DAI medical mouth skills has been passed on. Such as incanting and blowing are medical skills, as well as spiritual encouragement and hints related belief.In Yunnan villages , folk medicine has been in fresh and endless inheritance in front of the folk house in green field for thousands of years

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