Spring Awakens, Summer Flourishes

A father who practices Western medicine and a son who practices Chinese medicine: their conflicting beliefs made their lives a tangle of disagreements, and for eight years they were like strangers.

A pioneering project in medical technology forced the two stubborn men to work together. The father set up obstacle after obstacle to make his son abandon traditional Chinese medicine, which he saw as consorting with the supernatural, while the son held fast to the Five Phases and Six Qi to save the orthodox medical tradition.

Their fierce clashes began to loosen the knot of their deep-rooted conflict after an unexpected deduction of fate. It revealed the hidden, silent love beneath the complicated mix of affection and resentment between father and son...

An unconventional legacy of Chinese medicine, bridging technology and tradition to break through its current impasse and challenge the superstitious assumptions rooted in popular prejudice.