“ As this is a frequently asked question, here is some background to explain why the leads’ names are funny.
Zhang San
Zhang (张) is the third most common surname in China and it has very ordinary / neutral connotations, like "Smith" or "Johnson".
San (三) is also a very ordinary name. It means "three" and it used to be common for rural families to name their children in order, with the third child being named "三".
Together, Zhang San (张三) has a more specific connotation and usage, like the equivalent of "John Smith" (the go-to example of a very basic, ubiquitous, ordinary name) or "John Doe" (a placeholder name for any person).
Wang Cuihua
Wang (王) is the #1 most common surname in China and is more prevalent in northern China.
Cuihua (翠花) is also a name that used to be very common. It strings together some nice concepts (jade or emerald green - 翠 - and flower - 花), but it is a very literal (i.e., not abstract and elegant) and also strongly associated with country girls (especially country girls from northeastern China / especially in a stereotypical or comedic sense) and a much older generation.
Notably, the FL's third great uncle gave her this rustic, old-fashioned name. There was a 90s song called "Northeasterners are all Living Lei Fengs" (东北人都是活雷锋) that got very popular in the early 2000s that had a line ("Cuihua, serve pickled cabbage!" / 翠花, 上酸菜!) at the very end that became iconic and can be used as a funny reference for someone to imply that a lady is a bit rustic in a light-hearted, familiar, teasing way.
The song was also used as the theme song for a TV show (A Family in Northeastern China / 东北一家人) in 2001, with the iconic line voiced by one of the main characters of the TV show. One of the characters in the show is a waitress from the countryside named Cuihua.
The line is so well-known that:
university drama students (including Deng Chao) put on a production of a play that opened with the song and that was titled "翠花, 上酸菜!"; when an at-home-cabbage-pickling machine was invented in China, the news used the iconic phrase in their headlines for the story; and there is a brand of pickled cabbage called "Cuihua Pickled Cabbage" (翠花酸菜) that is produced by Heilongjiang* Cuihua Group (黑龙江翠花集团), which uses a country girl image as a kind of mascot. *Heilongjiang is the northernmost and easternmost province of China.
There are other Cuihua-related tropes and phrases, but that's the main one that's relevant here.
The ML used that famous line ("Cuihua, serve the pickled cabbage!") when he was laughing at the FL's real name in episode 29.
In a way, it's almost like an early meme that's old enough for him to have known about it before he transmigrated into the historical story in 2016”
I really wonder why it’s always the perfect flow dramas that have incompetent/ not well written endings? From the start till last ep, it had such amazing flow but why was the ending so underwhelming? I was expecting some big plot, for example what we saw was the revised edition of the storyline they asked from fl in first scene, they were all fictional ( i was very convinced the two main leads were also 2d characters since they didn’t really feel human more like a fictional character…). or something like that but no, nothing Just a min of modern meeting and a how are you and we are done… also for the side characters i was hoping we would see more of their ‘afterlives’ like er lan and mr cen meeting in another life, yong er and physician xiao also….… I really loved this drama for the comedy, plot,angst… But i just expect more for the ending :/ ( I haven’t read the novel but from what i heard the ending in the novel would have been so much better)
I just learned of this show, I read from other season's comments that its fixed( scripted) is it true? Obviously i am not trying to be offensive or rude but i just wanna know before watching..
Dewtee fans are so crazy with their edits. Even from low-quality videos or fake clips, I’ve seen so many great edits. I just know I’m going to die from all the edits people post when the series actually airs. ( i hope i will live long enough to see them 😭😭)
Zhang San
Zhang (张) is the third most common surname in China and it has very ordinary / neutral connotations, like "Smith" or "Johnson".
San (三) is also a very ordinary name. It means "three" and it used to be common for rural families to name their children in order, with the third child being named "三".
Together, Zhang San (张三) has a more specific connotation and usage, like the equivalent of "John Smith" (the go-to example of a very basic, ubiquitous, ordinary name) or "John Doe" (a placeholder name for any person).
Wang Cuihua
Wang (王) is the #1 most common surname in China and is more prevalent in northern China.
Cuihua (翠花) is also a name that used to be very common. It strings together some nice concepts (jade or emerald green - 翠 - and flower - 花), but it is a very literal (i.e., not abstract and elegant) and also strongly associated with country girls (especially country girls from northeastern China / especially in a stereotypical or comedic sense) and a much older generation.
Notably, the FL's third great uncle gave her this rustic, old-fashioned name. There was a 90s song called "Northeasterners are all Living Lei Fengs" (东北人都是活雷锋) that got very popular in the early 2000s that had a line ("Cuihua, serve pickled cabbage!" / 翠花, 上酸菜!) at the very end that became iconic and can be used as a funny reference for someone to imply that a lady is a bit rustic in a light-hearted, familiar, teasing way.
The song was also used as the theme song for a TV show (A Family in Northeastern China / 东北一家人) in 2001, with the iconic line voiced by one of the main characters of the TV show. One of the characters in the show is a waitress from the countryside named Cuihua.
The line is so well-known that:
university drama students (including Deng Chao) put on a production of a play that opened with the song and that was titled "翠花, 上酸菜!";
when an at-home-cabbage-pickling machine was invented in China, the news used the iconic phrase in their headlines for the story; and
there is a brand of pickled cabbage called "Cuihua Pickled Cabbage" (翠花酸菜) that is produced by Heilongjiang* Cuihua Group (黑龙江翠花集团), which uses a country girl image as a kind of mascot.
*Heilongjiang is the northernmost and easternmost province of China.
There are other Cuihua-related tropes and phrases, but that's the main one that's relevant here.
The ML used that famous line ("Cuihua, serve the pickled cabbage!") when he was laughing at the FL's real name in episode 29.
In a way, it's almost like an early meme that's old enough for him to have known about it before he transmigrated into the historical story in 2016”
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Just a min of modern meeting and a how are you and we are done… also for the side characters i was hoping we would see more of their ‘afterlives’ like er lan and mr cen meeting in another life, yong er and physician xiao also….…
I really loved this drama for the comedy, plot,angst…
But i just expect more for the ending :/
( I haven’t read the novel but from what i heard the ending in the novel would have been so much better)
i really like this about this drama.
HYX TOMORROW!!
( im also just as unstable )
(I will give you some spare change, get professional help pls
It looks like you need it😆)
I read from other season's comments that its fixed( scripted) is it true?
Obviously i am not trying to be offensive or rude but i just wanna know before watching..
Lowkey finished the drama to see more of him and my girl lu xin too