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Bai Chun actor (Zhou You) has a lot of good shows. If you look in his profile here, for sure you'll find some options (Dear Diary, City of Sunlight - set in Lasha, Tibet -, Love never Lost), the sister has Tales of Wumeng of The Depth of Wumen from 2025 about Miao People, and Chen zhe Hua (Shao fei) was in Born to be the One, a slide of life drama from 2024 set in contemporary Beijing. Also played the cop in The Hunt, thriller from 2025.

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For me, a 9. Anyway, besides rankings, it´s an amazing drama worth watching as a very solid drama in itself, with a meaninful message and mostly, because it´s inpired in real events.
It´s a shame - and quite sad - that both netizens and the internacional community trash a drama and the deeper meaning it carries simple for petty and short-minded reasons - especially without watching it (the same happened to the other drama aired in January based on real events).
It´s indeed disrespectful to the whole team involved in this high quality production but mostly, to the real heroes who fought and lost their life to protect the environment and the planet we live in.

I wrote a post about it. Here you´ll see the real names/pictures of the two main rangers that inspired Hu Ge character: Duo Jie: https://www.reddit.com/user/Patitoruani/comments/1qsfnid/born_to_be_alive_%E7%94%9F%E5%91%BD%E6%A0%91_tree_of_life/

Yeah, the bad subtitles were a thing but even with that, it´s worth watching.

Agree! Specially loved the relationship between Ma Qing Hao and his father - hilarious and heartwarming -, Wu Ai Sao and his wife Long Feng Bi, and the three friends, the "three Herbs of Wumeng" besides the culture approach you highighted.

No, Duojie has been dead from 17 years. It´s based on real events.

It’s among my favorite dramas of all time, and I can barely watch historical ones, no matter how hard I try.

For sure. Ignorance isn´t an excuse for illegal or non ethical acts.

For me, Bai Chun is in a kind of denial. As for what he said to Shao Fei, I think he represents ordinary people who, without education or awareness, don’t really understand the true meaning of the danger. Although he knows something is off, he genuinely believes they’re blowing things out of proportion because they’re educated or environmental freaks, and that they’re jeopardizing his job and the way of life he worked so hard to build.

Personal things aside, the Mountain Patrol members were always clear about their beliefs priorities. I also understand Mayor Lin, I think he represents a mindset from that era where development was for real a top priority for the country and its people - China wasn´t at the same level that the West or even countries in Latam. It´s not that he (and those who represents) is bad or doesn´t care as the real bad guys, it´s the dilemma of balancing development and environment protection that was always there, and is still to these days.

I guess the old vibe won´t coe back; I made peace with that. It´s still a good solid show, but now it lacks the force it had until episode 25.

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Yeah, I was thinking the same earlier. If they´ve ended with his "dissapearance" and then closed the story with a final episode updating the facts till the present, the drama would´ve remained as an unforgetable masterpiece from start to finish. But now, we already have a bunch of episodes that impact the overall quality. I´m praying for the show to get back on track soon.

I'm fear for this part of the drama. The first one was a masterpiece, but the abrupt change of pace, focus and setting -although fitting and emotionally resembling the sad and cruel ending of that part of the story - make me unease. I want this drama to keep the mastery it had till end of the Mountain Patrol arc

Yeah, I was fearing that might be happening, and still we have 14 eps to the end. The change of setting and vibe really impacted - not for the best imo - in what otherwise was till now a steady solid mastespiece. I hope we´ll get back in track and in the mountain setting assap.

Same. The charm of the drama lies in the landscape, and it feels a too abrupt change of pace and vibe that - in my experience - lower the quality a bit. I hope the former setting returns quickly.

The members of patrol team were imprisoned for between 2 and three years, and Bai Ju received a warning from the Party. The years that appeared later refer to the ones where natural reserves were created in the area.

Yeah, one of those rare dramas that gets better with every episode and keeps that quality all the way to the end. I usually don’t rewatch dramas, but I’ll definitely be revisiting this one.

The uplifting and touching OST keeps repeating in my mind, especially the opening and ending credits, plus a special theme and a scene in the second half. 😊

It also has already started airing on CCTV-1, and will get a second run on its original channel, CCTV-8, in a few days.

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