The TV series Ding Baozhen focuses on the latter half of the life of Ding Baozhen, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican era, who beheaded Andhai, governed the Yellow River twice, punished corruption, set up a machine bureau, and reformed the salt policy.

The TV series Ding Baozhen is specifically about: in the eighth year of the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the grand eunuch And Hai accepted bribes, fished and fleshed out the people, and left the palace privately. Ding Baozhen, the then governor of Shandong, was determined to clean up the official system, and used a trick to entrap Andersea. Taking advantage of the differences between Cixi and Yixi, he succeeded in bringing Anderhai to justice. The two factions of Cixi and Yixi were in conflict, and they succeeded in bringing Andersea to justice. The people's heart boiled with excitement. After that, Ding Baozhen returned to Guizhou and punished the local officials in his hometown, but behind the scene was the reality that people's livelihoods in the late Qing Dynasty were withering.

Ding Baozhen from Shandong transferred to Sichuan Governor, the face of peer checks and balances, resisting pressure, abolition of the Bureau of Horses, cleaned up the redundant bureaucracy. After clearing the fog of Chengdu's imperial examinations, he realized that the Qing Dynasty's system of selecting talents for the imperial examinations had accumulated too much weight to return. Ding Baozhen began a reform of the salt system in Sichuan.

"Ding Baozhen" Episode Rating

"Ding Baozhen" fills the gap of historical drama on the screen for some time. Relying on the allusion to Kung Pao Chicken, the drama not only portrays Ding Baozhen as a man who can "get to the temple and get down to the kitchen", but also has a full family narrative and solid character relationships. In the plot, family and national affairs are intertwined in the kitchen and family feasts, which are a metaphor for the flavors of life, so as to write about the love of family and country, the love of father and son, and to tell the story of the inheritance of the family style, which creates a smoky and humanistic flavor not often seen in historical dramas.

As the main actor, Ma Shaohua's emotional interpretation in the drama is full of tension, which fully explains the bones and temperament of a warm-blooded incorruptible official who takes the people as the sky. It can be said that Ma Shaohua's superb acting is the quality assurance of Ding Baozhen, which elevates the quality of the whole drama. However, the problem of stale appearance of the work has also affected the network broadcasting of the drama to a certain extent.