In Nanluoguxiang in 1950, Yang Jian, heir to an imperial physician's legacy, arrives with a puppet double capable of changing its appearance and begins his merry campaign to set the courtyard compound's troublemakers straight. When acupuncture needles become prank props and herbal prescriptions turn into matchmaking tools, watch as the protagonist uses imperial medicine to write an unconventional legend of the era. From poaching expert to legal education pioneer, from enemy-spy nemesis to retirement adviser, this 38-year-long performance-art piece in traditional Chinese medicine will eventually have the Venerable of Virtue on his knees begging for a secret fertility remedy, make a white lotus willingly drink an infertility potion, and turn a genuine scoundrel into a model husband. And when his five little tiger cubs grow up with the family silver needles, the whole city of Beiping will start trembling…
