Qi Juanzao, the hero of Heaven, Earth and People's Hearts, is a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty. He experienced four emperors and worked as a teacher for three emperors. In him, what is more reflected is a kind of upright spirit and character of the ancient literati in China, rather than studying just for official career. His lifelong ideal is: to be a gentleman and a well-off people. And for this ideal, he also devoted his life's efforts, as well as family, love and so on. If "Qiao Family Courtyard" gives concrete expression to the culture of Shanxi merchants, then "Heaven, Earth and People's Hearts" will let the audience see the touching stories of a generation of Jin Confucianism.
Heaven, Earth and People's Hearts was written by Zhu Xiuhai and directed by Yang Zihe. A 4-episode TV series featuring Cheng Tai _, Justin, Wang Luoyong, Song Jia, Zhao Hongfei and Shuo Yang. The drama tells the legendary life story of Qi Zao, a famous scholar from Shouyang, Shanxi Province in the Qing Dynasty, from his teens to his seventies. Taking the turbulent society in the middle and late Qing Dynasty as the historical background, this paper describes the legendary life of Qi Zao, a famous politician, writer and calligrapher, a "scholar of four dynasties" and a "teacher of three generations".