The Distant Nuodeng

This film (drama)Also known as遥远的诺邓，is aMainland ChinaProducerwomen sex，At2009Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin，Current Douban rating7.9(For reference only)。

Nuodeng is a forgotten mountain village in Yunnan. Since Emperor Wu of Han opened Yunnan, this place was established as a county due to its abundant high-quality well salt and became the starting point for salt trading on the Ancient Tea Horse Road; with a thriving economy and the movement of immigrants, it honored Confucius with schools and boasted a reputation for academic excellence. While many places during the Tang and Ming dynasties still struggled to survive, Nuodeng had already become a bustling hub for merchants. Modern industrial civilization made salt no longer a precious commodity, and people no longer had to traverse mountains to find it, leading to Nuodeng's neglect and abandonment. The passage of time left a heavy layer of "patina" on this thousand-year-old Bai village, as the brilliance of ancient civilization dwindled amidst decay, with the old village echoing stories of past glory like an elderly man reminiscing... Yoko is a Bai girl from the Fine Arts Department of Kunming Nationalities Teacher Training College. According to the terms of her scholarship contract, she graduated and came to the remote Nuodeng to teach. She found herself trapped in a hard and simple life... Huang Naiqi is an elderly teacher at Nuodeng Primary School. He has an eccentric personality, alienating himself from the world, and is passionate about ancient culture. Yoko's arrival made him retire early, and he developed a deep resentment toward her. The children in the deep mountains of Nuodeng live in poverty and face academic difficulties, yet they uphold a simple folk tradition of respecting teachers and valuing education. Yoko gradually becomes captivated by the children's pure emotions and is moved by the brilliant cultural accumulation buried beneath the ancient village's years, where every corner shows the handiwork of divine craftsmanship... Yoko begins to understand Nuodeng's history through her paintings. She discovers that Huang Naiqi clashed with authorities for the sake of cultural relic preservation and organizing a historical exhibition... She also learns about Huang Naiqi's ancestry, a family of scholars, known as Confucians in central Yunnan; his father, Huang Ziqing, set a high moral standard throughout his life, maintaining integrity and simplicity; Huang Naiqi's resentment towards the world reflects his discontent with the decline of social morals, and his eccentric nature masks an inner turmoil, with his obsession for the ancient stemming from a deep-seated pain... Yoko slowly becomes enchanted by Nuodeng's mysteries, unaware that she forgets her struggles and integrates into the lives of the Nuodeng people... With the support of Ge Yang, Yoko helps Huang Naiqi establish a sizable Nuodeng cultural history exhibition hall. At this point, the government plans to invest heavily in developing Nuodeng's cultural tourism resources, leading to evictions and renovations of historical sites. Unfortunately, Nuodeng Primary School is marked for relocation and consolidation. Founded in the Ming dynasty, flourishing in the Qing dynasty, and reaching maturity in the Republican era, it has upheld its educational mission since the founding of the nation; having never ceased its pursuit of nurturing talent and popularizing education, it now faces closure, forcing impoverished students to drop out, and the glorious history of the ancient school is at the brink of extinction... The teachers and students of Nuodeng are deeply saddened by this turn of events... Yoko spends sleepless nights... Elder Huang Ziqing, like the phoenix of Nuodeng's ancient culture, passes away quietly. Huang Naiqi's eulogy, filled with immense sorrow, mourns the elder's immortality and misfortune, akin to a dirge for the ancient school of Nuodeng... Yoko passionately creates an oil painting titled "The Watcher," portraying the cultural integrity of Nuodeng's teachers and students... Decision-makers and experts in the government, stunned by the grand exhibits displayed in the Nuodeng cultural history exhibition hall, are moved by the historical value of the ancient school. At the conference, experts unanimously decide to allocate funds to reconstruct Nuodeng Primary School on its original site. Yoko's oil painting "The Watcher" wins a prestigious award at a European art fair, and she dedicates the honor to all the teachers and students of Nuodeng...