Luan Shi Piao Ping 乱世飘萍
Chinese title (trad.):
亂世飄萍
Chinese title (simpl.):
乱世飘萍
Russian title:
Беспокойное время
Release year:
2001
Country:
China
Number of episodes:
22
Episode running time:
45 minutes
Genre:
historical, drama
Language:
mandarin
Type:
TV series
Description:
Beijing at the end of the Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic. A courtesan known as the Phoenix Girl possesses a wondrous whip technique. Though born low, she is fierce in spirit and striking in beauty. She will give herself in marriage not for gold or silver, but for martial skill. Countless men come to challenge her for the beauty's hand, and all are defeated. This spectacle is witnessed by one man, and love springs up in his heart. He is Tuo Fang — Li Hong-Zhang's last disciple, returned from studying in England to promote Western affairs, and already a married man. Show more
Against the objections of his mentor Li Hong-Zhang and his own family, Tuo Fang goes to the contest in Western clothes with a Western sword — and the Phoenix Girl whips him until his clothes hang in tatters. Yet he does not lose heart: donning Western attire once more, he appears beneath her window and sings Schubert's serenade in a foreign tongue, hoping to win her consent. The Phoenix Girl does not show herself, but in her heart she feels a stirring of fondness…
The next day they duel again, and the Phoenix Girl deliberately leaves an opening, letting Tuo Fang win… Tuo Fang brings the Phoenix Girl home as his wife…
Not long after the wedding, Li Hong-Zhang sends Tuo Fang on a mission to England and forbids him to take his family. Tuo Fang and the Phoenix Girl part in tears. Who could have known that this parting would be forever. And the cause is the scheme of Tuo Fang's wife, a woman seemingly gentle and amiable: after the Phoenix Girl gives birth to a daughter, she poisons her and claims the child as her own…
Learning of the Phoenix Girl's death, Tuo Fang is inconsolable. A year later, having returned home to report on his mission, he takes his daughter to England and names her Run-Ge…
Many years later, an eighteen-year-old beauty, Run-Ge, returns to her homeland in Western dress with her father Tuo Fang. Long raised in England, Run-Ge knows nothing of the many taboos of the Great Qing, and everything she does becomes a dazzling spectacle. Robbing birds' nests, wandering teahouses, listening to opera and learning it, throwing punches and swinging staffs — she is capable of it all. Tuo Fang and his wife are plagued by headaches over her, yet can do nothing.
Rong Qing, son of the powerful court minister Rong Fu, takes a fancy to Run-Ge and sends a matchmaker, but Run-Ge refuses…
Just then Run-Ge happens to meet her father's friend Tan Si-Tong. She is won over by his upright spirit and his ideas of reform and renewal, and love takes root in her heart…
The emperor issues a secret edict, ordering Tuo Fang and Tan Si-Tong to find a way to save him. Tuo Fang writes a secret letter and gives it to Yuan Shi-Kai, demanding that he raise troops to defend the sovereign. But Yuan Shi-Kai informs on them, and the letter falls into Rong Fu's hands. Rong Qing seizes the chance and, threatening them with the secret letter, forces Tuo Fang into submission…
To save the Tuo family from disaster, Tuo Fang's wife takes matters into her own hands, intending to drug Run-Ge with a mind-clouding potion and send her to the Rong household. Just then Tuo Fang returns, the plot is exposed, and Tuo Fang flies into a rage…
The reforms fail, and Tan Si-Tong and five other noble men are executed at Caishikou… Tuo Fang, utterly spent in body and soul, leaps into the city moat… Run-Ge, having witnessed Tan Si-Tong's execution, vanishes… Tuo Fang's wife, in despair, sets fire to the Tuo household…
Ten years later. Wuchang, Hubei. Run-Ge is now the leading star of an opera troupe, her stage name Run Tian-Hong… Yang Hai-Long, registered as a chiliarch in the Qing military camp but in truth a revolutionary, one day leads several revolutionaries to the theater to assassinate the governor-general of Huguang, Rui-Zheng, who is watching the opera — but the attempt fails. At the critical moment Run Tian-Hong saves Yang Hai-Long, and he is deeply grateful…
On the anniversary of Tan Si-Tong's death, Run Tian-Hong and Yang Hai-Long, each having come separately to the riverside to pay their respects, meet by chance. Only then does Run Tian-Hong realize that the Yang Hai-Long before her is the very boy who once hauled boats and deeply moved Tan Si-Tong, and who later became his student.
Against the objections of his mentor Li Hong-Zhang and his own family, Tuo Fang goes to the contest in Western clothes with a Western sword — and the Phoenix Girl whips him until his clothes hang in tatters. Yet he does not lose heart: donning Western attire once more, he appears beneath her window and sings Schubert's serenade in a foreign tongue, hoping to win her consent. The Phoenix Girl does not show herself, but in her heart she feels a stirring of fondness…
The next day they duel again, and the Phoenix Girl deliberately leaves an opening, letting Tuo Fang win… Tuo Fang brings the Phoenix Girl home as his wife…
Not long after the wedding, Li Hong-Zhang sends Tuo Fang on a mission to England and forbids him to take his family. Tuo Fang and the Phoenix Girl part in tears. Who could have known that this parting would be forever. And the cause is the scheme of Tuo Fang's wife, a woman seemingly gentle and amiable: after the Phoenix Girl gives birth to a daughter, she poisons her and claims the child as her own…
Learning of the Phoenix Girl's death, Tuo Fang is inconsolable. A year later, having returned home to report on his mission, he takes his daughter to England and names her Run-Ge…
Many years later, an eighteen-year-old beauty, Run-Ge, returns to her homeland in Western dress with her father Tuo Fang. Long raised in England, Run-Ge knows nothing of the many taboos of the Great Qing, and everything she does becomes a dazzling spectacle. Robbing birds' nests, wandering teahouses, listening to opera and learning it, throwing punches and swinging staffs — she is capable of it all. Tuo Fang and his wife are plagued by headaches over her, yet can do nothing.
Rong Qing, son of the powerful court minister Rong Fu, takes a fancy to Run-Ge and sends a matchmaker, but Run-Ge refuses…
Just then Run-Ge happens to meet her father's friend Tan Si-Tong. She is won over by his upright spirit and his ideas of reform and renewal, and love takes root in her heart…
The emperor issues a secret edict, ordering Tuo Fang and Tan Si-Tong to find a way to save him. Tuo Fang writes a secret letter and gives it to Yuan Shi-Kai, demanding that he raise troops to defend the sovereign. But Yuan Shi-Kai informs on them, and the letter falls into Rong Fu's hands. Rong Qing seizes the chance and, threatening them with the secret letter, forces Tuo Fang into submission…
To save the Tuo family from disaster, Tuo Fang's wife takes matters into her own hands, intending to drug Run-Ge with a mind-clouding potion and send her to the Rong household. Just then Tuo Fang returns, the plot is exposed, and Tuo Fang flies into a rage…
The reforms fail, and Tan Si-Tong and five other noble men are executed at Caishikou… Tuo Fang, utterly spent in body and soul, leaps into the city moat… Run-Ge, having witnessed Tan Si-Tong's execution, vanishes… Tuo Fang's wife, in despair, sets fire to the Tuo household…
Ten years later. Wuchang, Hubei. Run-Ge is now the leading star of an opera troupe, her stage name Run Tian-Hong… Yang Hai-Long, registered as a chiliarch in the Qing military camp but in truth a revolutionary, one day leads several revolutionaries to the theater to assassinate the governor-general of Huguang, Rui-Zheng, who is watching the opera — but the attempt fails. At the critical moment Run Tian-Hong saves Yang Hai-Long, and he is deeply grateful…
On the anniversary of Tan Si-Tong's death, Run Tian-Hong and Yang Hai-Long, each having come separately to the riverside to pay their respects, meet by chance. Only then does Run Tian-Hong realize that the Yang Hai-Long before her is the very boy who once hauled boats and deeply moved Tan Si-Tong, and who later became his student.
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producer:
Wei Wen-Bin, Tang Yuan-Tao, Wang Yi-Fu, Jing Quan
36 m.
Tang Yuan-Tao
53 m.
Wei Wen-Bin
36 m.
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Wang Yi-Fu
6 m.
Jing Quan
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