During the Yuanfu period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Qin Guan, the most famous poet in Bianjing, was suddenly demoted and exiled to Leizhou, a barbaric and barbaric place. Dragging his sick bones and shattered dream of fame, he thought he would be buried in this red earth for the rest of his life. Until I met A Li, a witch doctor from the Li tribe. She was barefoot and had scars on her shoulders. Her medicine-gathering hands could save lives and tear apart the most fragile pretense of civilization.
She saves him with "barbaric" therapy and wisdom that goes straight to the essence of life and death; she shakes him with the drumbeat of the sea festival, the folk song of the moonlit night, and the tenacity of silence in the hurricane. He taught her to read, but from her he learned to identify poisonous weeds and antidotes, learned that sadness can be shouted out, and love does not have to be perfect.
When the edict to return to the north and the testimony of the mountain god and sea god came at the same time, the "wet bird" that had trapped him for half his life - the obsession with the old self and the pursuit of illusory perfection - finally found its way to fly between the red cotton and the sea waves. In three years in Leizhou, he lost all his glitz, but gained real poetic bones and love: his style of poetry was refined from graceful and elegant to deep and profound, and his love phantomed from paper to the ground and became dependent on flesh and blood.
This is not the romantic affair of a talented man and a beautiful woman, but the fragmentation and rebirth of a civilized soul in a wild land. When the moonlight of Bianjing and the sound of the tide in Leizhou blend in the last poem, the answer has already emerged: the most profound romance begins with the courage to fall into reality, and finally the moment when life is refined into poetry.
A collision of civilizations: the exquisite culture of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Central Plains vs. The fierce and simple survival wisdom of Li Li.
Reshaping love: from the fantasy of "gold wind and jade dew" to the real contract of "drinking blood and wine".
Purpose: Use a love story that spans civilization and barbarism to explore what true "romance" is - the courage to sink into the roughest truth of life, rebuild where it was destroyed, and refine everything into poetry.