Movies; Curse of the Golden Flower
"The Candidate" with Robert Redford, Highly recommended. It is a 1960's classic, and as current today as it was then. Theme is environmental, Union workers job dilemmas, and family roots the candidate has to live with.
Could not rent it, had to borrow it from a library.
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Chrysanthemum (Cornus officinalis) is used for making tea, zhuyu is for smell. Like all flowers each has a mission in life.
In the movie, “Curse of the Golden Flower“, the power of a single flower is the nemeses for the filmmaker, using Beijing as the back drop for romance, mystery, and intrigue. Romance is an Emperor who has both a wife, the Empress, and a lover--who sewed with thread made of gold, a Chrysanthemum into cloth for him.
Mystery begins with the Chinese yang number. Yang is anine, meaning the 9th day of the lunar month (a double nine). Spiritually this concept of nines represents potential danger. Mythology is, if one drinks Chrysanthemum tea and sniffs the scent of the zhuyu the curse of danger will be removed. In Chinese Philosophy the Yang is the male counter part to the Ying.
School children learn about the Chrysanthemum through poetry and its taxometry. However, in this movie the tea is laced with milder doses of poison, prolonging death to the Empress who is served cups of tea by the Emperor.
The movie is sensual, historically endowed from the Ching Dynasty, and brings to life a flower, a thing of beauty, used for evil.
The name China was gotten from the Ching Dynasty.