刮痧英文版观后感

Guasha

I.GUASHA TREATMENT

Before I watch Guasha,I have no idea about Guasha treatment and this kind of Chinese traditional way which is designed to cure some illness.

When I finish watching the movie,I know much more about this Chinese traditional treatment,and I realize that there are big differences between Chinese and American culture,even make American and Chinese hardly understand each other well.

About the film,I didn’t know much about it,but after collect information on the Internet,I know the film better.

Gua sha , meaning "scraping sha-bruises", is a traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light bruising. Practitioners believe gua sha releases unhealthy elements from injured areas and stimulates blood flow and healing. Gua sha is sometimes referred to as "spooning" or "coining" by English speakers, it has also been given the descriptive French name, tribo-effleurage.

Gua sha involves repeated pressured strokes over lubricated skin with a smooth edged instrument. Skin is typically lubricated with massage oil and commonly a ceramic Chinese soup spoon was used, or a well worn coin, even honed animal bones, water buffalo horn, or jade. A simple metal cap with a rounded edge is commonly used.

In cases of fatigue from heavy work, a piece of ginger root soaked in rice wine is sometimes used to rub down the spine from head to feet.

The smooth edge is placed against the oiled skin surface, pressed down firmly, and then moved down the muscles—hence the term tribo-effleurage (i.e., friction-stroking)—or along the pathway of the acupuncture meridians, along the surface of the skin, with each stroke being about 4–6 inches long.

This causes extravasating or bleeding from the peripheral capillaries and may result in sub-cutaneous blemishing (ecchymosis), which usually takes 2–4 days to fade. Sha rash does not represent capillary rupture (petechiae) as in bruising, as is evidenced by the immediate fading of the markings to echymosis, and the rapid resolution of sha as compared to bruising.

Through these information of Guasha treatment,we can have a better understand of the film.

II.THE PLOT OF THE FILM

The main content of the movie is easy to understand,but there are things that more meaningful.Da tong,the leading man of the film,living in America with his wife,his son and his father who cannot speak English.To treat the little boy’s illness,the old grandpa did Guasha to him,but it is considered to be a kind of violence in America and the kid was kept away from his family.They made great effort to prove Guasha is a kind of treatment,but in vain.Finally,they get together again.