Jiang Hu Qiao Jia Ren 江湖俏佳人
Chinese title (trad.):
江湖俏佳人
Chinese title (simpl.):
江湖俏佳人
Russian title:
Красавица цзянху
Release year:
2004
Country:
China
Number of episodes:
32
Episode running time:
46 minutes
Genre:
historical, comedy, drama
Language:
mandarin
Type:
TV series
Description:
During the Southern Song dynasty, the emperor suddenly fell gravely ill and sank into unconsciousness, throwing the court into chaos. Just then Hei Ni, king of the Black-Tooth Kingdom, arrived on a visit, and the eighteenth crown prince, Long-Er, had no choice but to host a banquet in his father's stead. At the table Hei Ni boasted of his kingdom's might, claiming it possessed four great masters — a god of war, a god of poetry, a god of food, and a god of chess. Long-Er laughed to himself, for these four arts had always been the strength of the Han people, and the two sides promptly agreed to a contest. Show more But Long-Er did not suspect that Hei Ni had long since bribed the four Song masters, and he realized he had fallen into a trap. In desperation he signed a pact with Hei Ni: in three months the two kingdoms would compete, and if Song lost, it would cede territory and pay tribute.
Meanwhile, a carefully designed and utterly unnoticed selection quietly unfolded among the common people. After a series of mishaps, three women from the household of the landowner Liu came to Long-Er's attention — his daughter Liu Xiao-Xiao, who had loved weapons and martial arts since childhood; his concubine Thirteen Aunt, who lived for chess; and the maid Bai Ling, a master of cuisine — along with Leng Qiu-Yue, who had disguised herself as a man to escape an unwanted marriage.
Just as Long-Er, overjoyed, was about to invite them to the palace for the great undertaking, the four women were mysteriously abducted by Long-Er's uncle, Prince Zhao. It turned out that Prince Zhao had long been in league with Hei Ni and was plotting rebellion and usurpation. He falsely claimed that the crown prince was steeped in debauchery and was summoning them to the palace only to take them as concubines, and that the prince suffered from forty-nine kinds of strange ailments — frightening Xiao-Xiao and the others into fleeing in panic. At the same time, he lied to Long-Er that the four great masters had no wish to serve the court and had therefore fled along the way.
Long-Er decides to go in disguise among the common people with his trusted "know-it-all" Xiao Shi-Tou to find the four masters. And in Prince Zhao's mansion, Hei Ni, displeased that the prince let the four women go, decides to send his son Hei Mu to find them ahead of the crown prince and silence them all at once.
After a journey full of hardships, Xiao-Xiao, Qiu-Yue, Bai Ling, and Thirteen Aunt reach Yangzhou. Thirteen Aunt takes out the savings she had set aside from her days as a singing girl and, together with Xiao-Xiao, opens the "Sisters' Inn" to make a living. Soon the disguised Long-Er and Hei Mu arrive one after the other at the "Sisters' Inn" and become its employees — "Xiao Long" and "Da Hei."
Xiao Shi-Tou, who often has to pass on messages, also becomes a regular at the inn.
The "Sisters' Inn" gradually gains a fine reputation, but troubles keep coming. The son of the provincial governor, Wang Jun-Cai, checks in — he has come for his runaway concubine Leng Qiu-Yue and threatens her with her indenture contract. To help Qiu-Yue escape his clutches, everyone decides to exploit Wang Jun-Cai's weakness for beauty by having Xiao-Xiao make advances to him. Wang Jun-Cai indeed takes the bait and obediently hands over the contract; seeing the plan succeed, Xiao-Xiao immediately tears the contract to shreds and slips away. Wang Jun-Cai harbors a grudge, bribes the scholar Li Chang-An, who is on his way to the examinations, and waits for a chance to take revenge.
As everyone at the "Sisters' Inn" lives together over time, the frank and straightforward Xiao-Xiao gradually develops feelings for the wise and brave Xiao Long, but Xiao Long secretly loves the elegant and gentle Qiu-Yue. So Xiao-Xiao has no choice but to seek advice from Thirteen Aunt. Calling herself a scourge to men, Thirteen Aunt promises to show Xiao-Xiao how to win a man's heart in ten days, and the test subject turns out to be none other than Li Chang-An. Sure enough, ten days later it is not Li Chang-An who is conquered but Thirteen Aunt herself: she decides to sell the "Sisters' Inn" and elope with Li Chang-An. But when she learns that everything was a conspiracy, the shock is too much — she falls gravely ill and loses her memory. To help Thirteen Aunt recover her memory, Xiao-Xiao sends a letter overnight to her father, the landowner Liu, and the aged Liu has no choice but to embark on a new round of courtship of Thirteen Aunt.
After that, many amusing and perilous stories unfold at the "Sisters' Inn": the mystery of Bai Ling's origins, Xiao-Xiao catching a ghost, Thirteen Aunt outwitting the gambling king, Qiu-Yue's friendship with a foreigner, Bai Ling suddenly losing her sense of taste… Through shared hardships, Da Hei and Xiao Long become sworn friends, the love between Qiu-Yue and Da Hei grows ever clearer, and Xiao Long finally realizes that Xiao-Xiao, who has secretly loved him all along, is the girl best suited to him. Though Thirteen Aunt has not regained her memory, she is moved by the landowner Liu's sincerity and falls in love with him a second time, while Bai Ling and the "know-it-all" Xiao Shi-Tou become a couple. At the same time, Prince Zhao, to eliminate his chief obstacle and bring his rebellion to fruition sooner, exploits a drought in Yangzhou to set a "rain-praying" trap, intending to do away with the four women and launch his rebellion in one stroke. But at the last moment a heavy rain suddenly falls, Xiao-Xiao and the others narrowly survive the crisis, and Prince Zhao's entire plan comes to nothing. Just then the true identities of Xiao Long and Da Hei are exposed, and Xiao-Xiao and the others finally understand the whole chain of events. After the last assassination plot, devised by Hei Mu's sister Hei Zhen-Zhu, also fails, the deadline agreed between Song and the Black-Tooth Kingdom finally arrives.
In the contest, Qiu-Yue, Bai Ling, Thirteen Aunt, and Liu Xiao-Xiao join forces and, with their superb skills, win by a surprise move: after a battle of wits and will, they finally defeat their opponents. Seeing that defeat is inevitable, Prince Zhao is about to stab Long-Er when the emperor, who had lain unconscious for many days, suddenly appears at the arena. It turns out he had long sensed Prince Zhao's treasonous intentions, feigned grave illness to lure him out, and also to test the abilities of the crown prince Long-Er. In the end, Prince Zhao and a host of treacherous ministers and corrupt officials receive their just punishment. Song and the Black-Tooth Kingdom restore their friendship.
Not long after, Xiao Long and Da Hei separately ask their father to let them renounce the status of crown prince and become ordinary people, for both have deeply felt that the happiness found at the "Sisters' Inn" far surpasses the splendor of the palace. Thus the lovers are at last united, and the story of the "Sisters' Inn" becomes a widely celebrated legend of the jianghu.
Meanwhile, a carefully designed and utterly unnoticed selection quietly unfolded among the common people. After a series of mishaps, three women from the household of the landowner Liu came to Long-Er's attention — his daughter Liu Xiao-Xiao, who had loved weapons and martial arts since childhood; his concubine Thirteen Aunt, who lived for chess; and the maid Bai Ling, a master of cuisine — along with Leng Qiu-Yue, who had disguised herself as a man to escape an unwanted marriage.
Just as Long-Er, overjoyed, was about to invite them to the palace for the great undertaking, the four women were mysteriously abducted by Long-Er's uncle, Prince Zhao. It turned out that Prince Zhao had long been in league with Hei Ni and was plotting rebellion and usurpation. He falsely claimed that the crown prince was steeped in debauchery and was summoning them to the palace only to take them as concubines, and that the prince suffered from forty-nine kinds of strange ailments — frightening Xiao-Xiao and the others into fleeing in panic. At the same time, he lied to Long-Er that the four great masters had no wish to serve the court and had therefore fled along the way.
Long-Er decides to go in disguise among the common people with his trusted "know-it-all" Xiao Shi-Tou to find the four masters. And in Prince Zhao's mansion, Hei Ni, displeased that the prince let the four women go, decides to send his son Hei Mu to find them ahead of the crown prince and silence them all at once.
After a journey full of hardships, Xiao-Xiao, Qiu-Yue, Bai Ling, and Thirteen Aunt reach Yangzhou. Thirteen Aunt takes out the savings she had set aside from her days as a singing girl and, together with Xiao-Xiao, opens the "Sisters' Inn" to make a living. Soon the disguised Long-Er and Hei Mu arrive one after the other at the "Sisters' Inn" and become its employees — "Xiao Long" and "Da Hei."
Xiao Shi-Tou, who often has to pass on messages, also becomes a regular at the inn.
The "Sisters' Inn" gradually gains a fine reputation, but troubles keep coming. The son of the provincial governor, Wang Jun-Cai, checks in — he has come for his runaway concubine Leng Qiu-Yue and threatens her with her indenture contract. To help Qiu-Yue escape his clutches, everyone decides to exploit Wang Jun-Cai's weakness for beauty by having Xiao-Xiao make advances to him. Wang Jun-Cai indeed takes the bait and obediently hands over the contract; seeing the plan succeed, Xiao-Xiao immediately tears the contract to shreds and slips away. Wang Jun-Cai harbors a grudge, bribes the scholar Li Chang-An, who is on his way to the examinations, and waits for a chance to take revenge.
As everyone at the "Sisters' Inn" lives together over time, the frank and straightforward Xiao-Xiao gradually develops feelings for the wise and brave Xiao Long, but Xiao Long secretly loves the elegant and gentle Qiu-Yue. So Xiao-Xiao has no choice but to seek advice from Thirteen Aunt. Calling herself a scourge to men, Thirteen Aunt promises to show Xiao-Xiao how to win a man's heart in ten days, and the test subject turns out to be none other than Li Chang-An. Sure enough, ten days later it is not Li Chang-An who is conquered but Thirteen Aunt herself: she decides to sell the "Sisters' Inn" and elope with Li Chang-An. But when she learns that everything was a conspiracy, the shock is too much — she falls gravely ill and loses her memory. To help Thirteen Aunt recover her memory, Xiao-Xiao sends a letter overnight to her father, the landowner Liu, and the aged Liu has no choice but to embark on a new round of courtship of Thirteen Aunt.
After that, many amusing and perilous stories unfold at the "Sisters' Inn": the mystery of Bai Ling's origins, Xiao-Xiao catching a ghost, Thirteen Aunt outwitting the gambling king, Qiu-Yue's friendship with a foreigner, Bai Ling suddenly losing her sense of taste… Through shared hardships, Da Hei and Xiao Long become sworn friends, the love between Qiu-Yue and Da Hei grows ever clearer, and Xiao Long finally realizes that Xiao-Xiao, who has secretly loved him all along, is the girl best suited to him. Though Thirteen Aunt has not regained her memory, she is moved by the landowner Liu's sincerity and falls in love with him a second time, while Bai Ling and the "know-it-all" Xiao Shi-Tou become a couple. At the same time, Prince Zhao, to eliminate his chief obstacle and bring his rebellion to fruition sooner, exploits a drought in Yangzhou to set a "rain-praying" trap, intending to do away with the four women and launch his rebellion in one stroke. But at the last moment a heavy rain suddenly falls, Xiao-Xiao and the others narrowly survive the crisis, and Prince Zhao's entire plan comes to nothing. Just then the true identities of Xiao Long and Da Hei are exposed, and Xiao-Xiao and the others finally understand the whole chain of events. After the last assassination plot, devised by Hei Mu's sister Hei Zhen-Zhu, also fails, the deadline agreed between Song and the Black-Tooth Kingdom finally arrives.
In the contest, Qiu-Yue, Bai Ling, Thirteen Aunt, and Liu Xiao-Xiao join forces and, with their superb skills, win by a surprise move: after a battle of wits and will, they finally defeat their opponents. Seeing that defeat is inevitable, Prince Zhao is about to stab Long-Er when the emperor, who had lain unconscious for many days, suddenly appears at the arena. It turns out he had long sensed Prince Zhao's treasonous intentions, feigned grave illness to lure him out, and also to test the abilities of the crown prince Long-Er. In the end, Prince Zhao and a host of treacherous ministers and corrupt officials receive their just punishment. Song and the Black-Tooth Kingdom restore their friendship.
Not long after, Xiao Long and Da Hei separately ask their father to let them renounce the status of crown prince and become ordinary people, for both have deeply felt that the happiness found at the "Sisters' Inn" far surpasses the splendor of the palace. Thus the lovers are at last united, and the story of the "Sisters' Inn" becomes a widely celebrated legend of the jianghu.
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Guo Hua, Wang Dan, Lu Bing, Guo Ming-Er
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Wang Dan
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Guo Ming-Er
Aged 26 years
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Guo Hua
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Lu Bing
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Aged 26 years
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