Dream Of The Red Chamber 1987
Hónglóu mèng first released in 1987 is a television series produced by cctv adapted from the classic 18th century chinese novel dream of the red chamber it gained enormous popularity for its music cast and plot adaptation.
Dream of the red chamber 1987. Chinese original with english subtitles. The dream of the red chamber story of the stone is unlike any work in the western canon yet it fits into the western tradition of great literature in a way few other examples of classic chinese writing are able to offering an engrossive narrative and a real feel for both character and place. It was first filmed in beijing in mandarin then the series was dubbed in cantonese and shanghainese. The series follows the plot of cao xueqin s novel dream of the red chamber.
It gained enormous popularity with its superb music cast and plot adaptation. With jie deng fenqiang ouyang xiaoxu chen ting li. Episode 9 dream of the red chamber mansions story of the stone hongloumeng hong lou meng shitouji shi tou ji e. It was first filmed in beijing in mandarin.
Cao xueqin a member of an eminent family that had served the qing dynasty emperors but whose fortunes had begun to decline began composing dream of the red chamber during the 1740s. Dream of the red chamber released in 1987 was a television series produced by cctv adapted from the classic chinese novel dream of the red chamber. Dream of the red chamber chinese. It details the decline of the jia family as it blends realism and romance psychological motivation and fate and daily life and supernatural occurrences.
The series begins with the mother less child lin daiyu whose beauty and intelligence surpasses all moving into her maternal grandmother s family in the capital. Dream of the red chamber is an 18th century novel written by cao zhan that is generally considered to be the greatest novel of chinese literature. Based on the mid eighteenth century novel by cao xueqin beijing s cctv s version of a dream in red mansions aka dream of the red chamber is known by many to be the ultimate and best adaptation of the story either on tv or film. Dream of the red chamber episode 1 part 1 1987 tv series 红楼梦.
Then it was translated into cantonese shanghainese and other languages and aired in the rest of china. The series follows the plot of cao xueqin s novel dream of the red chamber.