During this year's Spring Festival movie season, Nezha broke the box office record with a spectacular "sea of chaos" and unexpectedly brought a common ingredient - lotus root powder - to life. In the movie "Ne Zha: The Demonic Children Roar in the Sea", Taiyi Zhenren reshapes the physical bodies of Ne Zha and Ao Bing with lotus root powder and the power of seven colored lotus flowers. This plot has sparked curiosity among many viewers: why do we have to use lotus roots to reshape our bodies? Is anything else okay? For example, corn, potatoes, or sweet potatoes? Some people say that this is because the story of Nezha happened during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, when China had not yet planted corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, but lotus roots had already been grown; Some people say that this is related to the characteristic of lotus root - "lotus root with broken threads". In the eyes of ancient people, each lotus root thread was like a person's blood, and the lotus roots were connected, symbolizing the regeneration and resilience of life; Some people also say that in traditional Chinese culture, lotus has been a symbol of nobility and purity since ancient times. Its character of "emerging from the mud without staining, washing the clear lotus without being demonic" is highly praised by ancient people. Using the lotus root to reshape the body not only reflects Nezha's rebirth after "transformation", but also implies that although he has gone through hardships, his heart is still pure and flawless... These statements have their own reasons. If we delve deeper into folk legends, the setting of Nezha's rebirth is closer to the classic version of "lotus root as bone and lotus as flesh". This time, the movie modernized the traditional myth by innovatively changing the setting to lotus root powder - mixing lotus root powder with cold water and then brewing it with hot water to create a semi transparent and gelatinous lotus root powder. The audience can immediately feel the stickiness of the lotus root powder gelatinization - how convenient it is to shape! The creative idea of using lotus root powder to shape the body also hides a layer of mystery: from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, choosing lotus root powder by Taiyi Zhenren can be said to deeply embody the essence of health preservation. In traditional Chinese medicine classics, lotus root is revered as the "spiritual root" and can be regarded as a model of medicinal and edible homology. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, "raw lotus roots are sweet and cold, while ripe lotus roots are sweet and warm." Raw lotus roots with a cold nature can clear heat and cool blood, while ripe lotus roots with a warm nature can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. This bidirectional regulation characteristic is in line with the health standard of traditional Chinese medicine, which is to achieve a dynamic balance between yin and yang. Modern science has also verified the wonderful use of lotus root powder. Lotus root powder is rich in mucin, dietary fiber, and various trace elements. Mucin moisturizes the gastrointestinal tract, dietary fiber promotes metabolism, and various trace elements enhance immunity. Therefore, lotus root powder is regarded as a good liquid food and nourishing treasure for women, children, women, and those who are weak and prone to illness. What is even more intriguing is that the physical characteristics of lotus root form a subtle intertextuality with traditional Chinese medicine theory: the vascular bundles of lotus root are composed of spiral thickened cells, which stretch like springs when stretched, perfectly embodying the health essence of "soft muscles and upright bones"; The hollow and porous structure is like a perfect annotation of "unobstructed meridians"... When the audience cheers for Nezha's "reverse bone" movement, perhaps they have not noticed that every fighting action on the screen is interpreting the traditional Chinese medicine's "general principle of no pain" - those flowing martial arts designs are also an artistic presentation of "qi and blood harmony"? This way of thinking that projects natural laws onto the human body is the core wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine's "comparing phenomena with categories" - just like lotus roots use seven holes and nine orifices to breathe into heaven and earth, humans connect the inside and outside through meridians and acupoints, and the life logic inside and outside the screen achieves a wonderful resonance here. When the audience cheers for Nezha on the screen, they may not have noticed that the lotus root starch soup on their breakfast table continues the health wisdom of "five grains for nourishment" from thousands of years ago in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. The lotus roots, stained with mud, embody the cosmology of traditional Chinese medicine's "unity of heaven and man", and hide the code book of yin and yang and the five elements - the wisdom of our ancestors, which has always been so immortal and down-to-earth. (New Society)