I love it. TVB sneaked in a subtle dig at Mao. For those that don't know their history, Chairman Mao, as part of his "Great Leap Forward" orchestrated a "Great Sparrow Campaign" which was exactly like what the Bit Mun character tried to do, ie kill all the birds that ate planted seeds. Needless to say, once millions of sparrows were killed, locusts and other insects populations surged the following year, devastating the crops which triggered the great famine that lasted three years and killed an estimated 30 to 50 million Chinese. Bravo to TVB for the subtle reminder. -worship or... you didn't really think that TVB's writers were so creative that they can actually make this stuff up on their own, did you? LOL...
no hes right, i read/saw the interview by the director saying that he made many reference back to history, ie the one on youtube said Chai Gaus character was slightly based on "Zhu Yu Zhang" the first emperor of the Ming
Oh, I really didn't know that. Thanks alot for sharing this history, Ralph. But these Great Sparrows look so alike the common birds that live here at New York.
LOL... That's because in New York City (where the pigeon is probably more annoying), sparrows are also rampant. Ha ha... neither did I. I wonder if Beijing has already sent a "representative" to TVB's executive offices to "discuss" acceptable future plot devices. Even though Mao had been dead since the 70's, there is still a fervent and vocal number of Mao cult die hards that view him as the father of the Chinese universe and everything that he did as above reproach. Like everyone else, he was just a man; and like any other man, he did do some really stupid stuff.
wow thank you i didnt know that...but i really like the economic concepts they added into this series too..
well tbh its not really that educational ... its common sense ... its part of the food chain ...... if you killed all rabbits for eating lettuce then the foxes would die out then greater animals would die out then only leaving a swarm of insects etc or also like if you killed all dung beetles then their would be more shit and swarms of flies then creating more flies then they get affected from the bacteria from the shit then in the end kill millions ..... i learned all this in year 5 .........
^ We all know that through living environment (science) but this is something that happened back in the days.
this series is best show of the year, every body can't stop to watch, it hard to find other one better than
