As long as you wait long enough, can any dream come true? I didn't pay attention, how did "Da Changjin" 20 years ago continue! 
As a classic work with a large scale, a large span and a large idea, the influence of "Da Chang Jin" has never faded due to time. And what many people are thinking about more is that at the moment when crazy cool dramas occupy Korean entertainment, we haven't seen such an orthodox big heroine drama for a long time. 
Indeed, Changjin shines with many majestic qualities, and has an incomparably moving character arc. It's just that Piao has always had doubts about this "big" word. "Da Chang Jin" certainly has the brilliance of a female epic, but is it really a "big" heroine drama? Or, is Changjin a "big" heroine? At the end of the holiday, you might as well revisit the classics and sort out these thoughts and questions together. 
Da Chang Jin does collect all the elements that a big heroine drama should have-
Character design, beautiful and miserable. Unlike greenhouse plants, she is a strong grass that grows stronger the worse you practice, and it can produce ears when watered. Career, Wei Guangzheng.
In the early stage, from the small palace maid all the way to the most noble palace, in the later stage, the secondary line of the medical woman was opened, and she was promoted from the desert island all the way to the imperial doctor. Zhen Huan's return to the palace still relies on belly and calculation, we are taking the route of the national examination in the open and honest future! 
Changjin is the ultimate combination of Bodhisattva and Vajra, powerful and compassionate, and the light of the human design can illuminate the peninsula. The most rare thing is that the brilliance of human nature is still convincing, and there is no sense of hypocrisy floating. A proper heroine who has realized her self-worth. 
However, I have always had my own doubts about this general impression. First of all, Changjin's strength is not as many people understand, it is for the "self-realization" of the big heroine. Strictly speaking, in the passage of "Xiao Changjin" at the beginning of the series, she has more so-called self-awareness. Mom wouldn't allow her to go to school with the boy and catch hares together, but she wouldn't. also carried the caught hare to show off, which attracted a punishment. At that time, Changjin was different from most women in the feudal era, who did not recognize the rules, but only recognized the reason: I don't understand why I am the only one who can't
And the transformation of her life began with her mother's last words. Her mother died unjustly, and when she was dying, she was left with a multiple-choice question - or enter the palace, strive to become the noblest palace from the humblest position, and record her mother's grievances on the secretary. This is a typical revenge script. Or continue the life of a common man, hiding in the dust with all beings. 
It is said that it is a multiple-choice question, but in fact, there is no room between options. First, is it possible to treat a girl with such a stubborn temperament as if nothing had happened? Second, even if she doesn't enter the palace, can she be more free? There is no way to read and play like a boy, and the problem is never who controls her or restricts her, but that she was born in an era when women are inferior. Changjin didn't have a choice. After that, she only had one goal left: to become the noblest palace and clarify her mother's grievances. 
And, don't think that like Zhen Huan, Yuying, and Er Chun, the word "entering the palace" has never meant opening up a war and fighting to the top for Changjin. Two years ago, there was a drama "Shangshi" with the name of the domestic version of "Da Changjin", although the heroine also started as a maid in the imperial dining room, the ending was for the concubine and often accompanied by the king. 
This is the situation that the "big heroine" in the background of the feudal era will inevitably encounter. Even if it is characters such as Lu Pheasant and Empress Wu, they can't talk about "career" without a bunch of male stepping feet. But in the field of traditional heroines, Changjin is congenitally insufficient. Her battlefield is confined to the hall, and at the end of the promotion channel is the highest-level subordinate, compared to those demon queens who are prone to influence the government at every turn, her scope of activity is too narrow. What's more ruthless? She doesn't take advantage of the unspoken rules. In the past, who didn't understand that only by using gender weakness to practice the true scriptures can she accumulate power and be invincible? 
When I was a child, I watched "Da Changjin", and the biggest impression I left was cooking. And cooking is too small. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, trivialities, and the long-term career is laid on the weakest things, and she pins her hopes too much on the end. Therefore, a duck soup can make her fall into the abyss and become an exiled sinner overnight.
When she was imprisoned in prison with Han Sanggong, Changjin spoke her heart - she hated her mother all the time for leaving her alone, because she was really tired of living. Therefore, in all aspects, Changjin has never been known for being "big". The first half of her career was caused by a feud, limited to the boiler, and despite her outstanding talent and talent, she still couldn't change the essence of living for others. Changjin's excellence, in essence, still hasn't been able to break away from the old-fashioned thinking of traditional women. In other words, it is a "little woman" way of living. Therefore, when fate suddenly attacked her, she was almost powerless. Da Jang Jin's progress has cleared to zero, and she has lost the courage to start again.
It wasn't until I grew up that I realized that Changjin had so many human weaknesses - pride, complacency, rigidity, fragility, ......Each of these items has nothing to do with the temperament of the big heroine who is prevalent today. The worst thing is that she is still often overflowing with the heart of the Virgin Mary. The needlework maid who lived with her stole the flour she used for the competition, and drank a bowl of dumpling soup in order to fulfill her mother's last wish before leaving the palace. Changjin didn't say anything, but he personally wrapped this dumpling for the old palace maid.
If it is placed in ordinary times, it is still the beauty of **, accumulating virtue and doing good. But this competition is actually about her own promotion and reputation, no one else dares to make a half-point difference, but she first admitted a crime of losing ingredients, obviously too kind and reckless. Another example is the time when I helped Jinying find the lost golden rooster. You must know that the palace maid may be expelled from the palace if she leaves the palace without authorization, but she is still determined to help this fierce rival.
In the end, not only did she miss the agreed time to return to the palace, she almost ruined her career as a palace maid, but also caused Han Shanggong, who had been taking care of her, to the point that she couldn't receive her for three years.
You will find that although Changjin is true, good and beautiful, he often only takes into account the virtues in the macro sense, and does not deal with the burrs in specific small things. This is also understandable. Although the elders inherited her good deeds, they did not provide enough company. The first moment she entered the palace, she was living with fear.
Others were bullied, or at least there was someone to talk to. But as an orphan who lives in someone else's home, she has never been treated as a child bride, not flesh and blood.
Therefore, she tried her best to be good to everyone around her, just to get that little bit of emotional support, and just to seize that little hope of living. may also be because of the antecedents of "avenging her mother", the first half of her career, she has a weak sense of purpose, and she is clever and has no foresight. Because of this, he got into a lot of trouble for himself and the people around him. This is her shortcoming, and even the hidden reason why she fell to the bottom. But it is precisely this deficiency that constitutes the human side of Changjin. Just as people don't like to watch Ganlu Temple when they watch "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the Jeju Island exile clip of "Dae Jang Geum" is also a passage that the public does not want to review.
But in my opinion, Ganlu Temple is for Zhen Huan, and Jeju Island is for Changjin, both of which have to undergo transformation. These two people's qualifications are actually very similar, intelligent, proud, and have an almost stubborn attachment to human nature. If it weren't for this catastrophe, they wouldn't know the horror of their will, and they would always push themselves into the fire at some point in the future. When she first landed on Jeju Island, her only thought was to escape. She tried her best to escape countless times, and even when she was forced to the beach by the soldiers, she was like a desperate person, only to run desperately.
This is not a sane act. Because whether it is an outlying island or a wilderness, she has only one way to die. If Zhen Huan fell into pain because of her superstition about love, then Changjin's dementia stemmed from her superstition about morality. She believed in justice and hard work too much, and was unwilling to accept the Tao that she, her mother, and Han Shanggong adhered to, so easily she could be defeated. If you are in a hurry, you will become self-grasping.
But Zhang De, a senior doctor on the island, told her plainly that you must learn to give up. In order to survive, the sooner you give up, the better.
The rise of the real heroine requires the transformation of external strength into internal force, and refining childish anger into backbone. Just as Zhang De said, a successful person must be simple and enthusiastic, which has never been lacking in the long term. But more importantly, she still needs toUnderstand reality, and go beyond it.
At the beginning, Changjin was not convinced, and he was doing Zhang De's task with tears and gritted his teeth.
And when the medical skills are completed a few years later, the greatest benefit of Changjin is not in knowledge, but in introspection and reflection. Not only did she understand reality, but she also understood herself better. And that's where the really great story begins.
Da Chang Jin is about a legend of a woman's career, but she describes how she climbed to the mountainside with sixty percent of her pen and ink, and then wrote it off, making her fall to the bottom and unable to die. On "abuse", it is estimated that no work has been so ruthless and thorough, the protagonist changed from a cook to a doctor halfway, and the span is no less than asking me to rub the atomic bomb with a liberal arts woman. In fact, until the last episode, Changjin's family was still in exile, with no identity and no home.
However, in order to achieve a real "big heroine", these encounters are not only reasonable, but also necessary. The cruel handwriting of "Da Changjin" is a return to reality - a woman who transcends the times must be hated and suppressed to the extreme by the times. Just like the evaluation of Changjin: You are the seed that can bloom beautiful flowers even if you are thrown on cold ice.
This kind of mental power to restart life is not uncommon not only in the protagonist, but also in other side characters. Liansheng, a weak little girl who will follow the future step by step. When Changjin and Min Zhenghao were in exile, it was she who risked being expelled from the palace and prayed for the Queen Mother to restore their identities and become the last savior.
Before, she was a conservative who would never take any risks as long as there was a 1% risk. and Choi Jin-young, who makes people feel pathetic. As a descendant of the Cui family who wants to keep the title of the most noble palace, she has not been allowed to live by her own will since she was born. The sad thing about her is that she doesn't want to be a pawn in the struggle for power, but she is helpless to be not strong enough and hard. Under the coercion of the people around her, she finally lived as the person she hated the most. was touched by the passage when she was expelled from the palace: I failed to be a complete member of the Cui family, nor did I insist on my own ideas, nor did I achieve talent, craftsmanship, or serious efforts.
Isn't it another kind of growth to have the courage to see yourself clearly at the low point of your life and no longer paralyze yourself like an ostrich? Understand reality and go beyond it. In fact, just doing the first four words is no longer something that ordinary people can do. And in the end, the word "big" is given to Changjin, which is the transcendence of the future. Once, the unsuccessful deaths of her two mothers filled her with hatred.
But in the process of practicing medicine and saving people, she gradually discovered that this is what she really loves. She became the first medical woman who could diagnose the emperor's pulse, and even dared to risk killing her head and proposed surgery for the emperor. At that time, using a knife against the body was a crime that was not tolerated by the law of etiquette. But at the moment when she trembled and proposed to the emperor, I also saw that the stubborn girl who was punished by her mother, but never bowed her head, came back. She still dares to question the rules and is not afraid to be the first to break the game.
After the Queen Mother reinstated their official positions, Changjin was once again faced with a choice, returning to his hometown or continuing to perform his official duties in the palace.
This time, she did not hesitate to choose to go out of the palace with Min Zhenghao and live her own life. As the two of them walked through the field, there was a conversation that - will you regret it - no, the court is a place that seems to allow me to do everything but take everything away, gorgeous but sad.
Yes, Changjin once again broke the law of the "big heroine", she did not stay in the glamorous temple, but chose to go into hiding, her husband and children, and spread her morality everywhere. After all the dust settled, she chose such an ordinary life. But remember what I said earlier? She was faced with many seemingly selective choices, but never followed her own wishes. It wasn't until this time that she really did what she wanted to do. The real "big heroine" is to recognize her self-worth, bear all the consequences, and live a life of choice. At the end of the film, Changjin finally picked up a scalpel and successfully delivered a mother in a cave. Facing her husband and daughter who came to carry water, she laughed and cried: I said I can do it, why don't you say no?
After all, she managed to transcend reality. At this moment, her light can no longer be swallowed up by the times.