The Story of a Noble Family
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The Story of a Noble Family (金粉世家 / Jin Fen Shi Jia) was a major drama series produced in Beijing
, China
, based on a novel by Zhang Henshui
. It was a drama about a young man from a family of nobles, Jin Yanxi, who falls in love with a poor girl named Leng Qingqiu. Although the differences in their social stature keeps them from being together, they continue to date. Another girl from a noble family, Bai Xiuzhu, also falls in love with Yanxi, who rejects her and goes on to marry Qingqiu. However, his restlessness, spoiled personality, and tiredness of his married life prompts him to have an extramarital affair with Xiuzhu. When finally Yanxi offers to leave his wife Qingiu and his newborn son to accompany Xiuzhu to Germany, he splits up with his wife.
When the house in which his wife and son lived catches fire, Yanxi thinks that they died and falls to the floor in sorrow and regret. However, Qingqiu had actually escaped with the baby. Yanxi goes to try and find his wife at the train station, and sees and hugs her in his imagination. As it can be seen, Qingqiu was actually below him on a southbound train. Yanxi gives up, and deciding that there was nothing left for him back home (his family was now scattering, since his father had been robbed of his wealth and died), he boards a train headed in the opposite direction. The once loving couple thus go their separate ways, never to see each other again.
This is a story of love, pain, and drama. This takes place in an older time in China, when there were still people who followed the laws of nobility.
This film was produced with a total of 40 episodes. It aired on CCTV-8
. This film is in the Chinese dialect of Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.
The film was written partially by Li Sheng Xi, Liu Shung, Li Shiu.
Beijing
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, based on a novel by Zhang Henshui
Zhang Henshui
Zhang Xinyuan was a highly prolific, popular Chinese novelist who wrote under the pen name Zhang Henshui . He published more than 100 novels in his 50 years of fiction writing.-Biography:...
. It was a drama about a young man from a family of nobles, Jin Yanxi, who falls in love with a poor girl named Leng Qingqiu. Although the differences in their social stature keeps them from being together, they continue to date. Another girl from a noble family, Bai Xiuzhu, also falls in love with Yanxi, who rejects her and goes on to marry Qingqiu. However, his restlessness, spoiled personality, and tiredness of his married life prompts him to have an extramarital affair with Xiuzhu. When finally Yanxi offers to leave his wife Qingiu and his newborn son to accompany Xiuzhu to Germany, he splits up with his wife.
When the house in which his wife and son lived catches fire, Yanxi thinks that they died and falls to the floor in sorrow and regret. However, Qingqiu had actually escaped with the baby. Yanxi goes to try and find his wife at the train station, and sees and hugs her in his imagination. As it can be seen, Qingqiu was actually below him on a southbound train. Yanxi gives up, and deciding that there was nothing left for him back home (his family was now scattering, since his father had been robbed of his wealth and died), he boards a train headed in the opposite direction. The once loving couple thus go their separate ways, never to see each other again.
This is a story of love, pain, and drama. This takes place in an older time in China, when there were still people who followed the laws of nobility.
This film was produced with a total of 40 episodes. It aired on CCTV-8
CCTV-8
CCTV-8 is the television drama channel of the CCTV Network in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
. This film is in the Chinese dialect of Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.
The film was written partially by Li Sheng Xi, Liu Shung, Li Shiu.