Story of the First Place
CHEN Boyu’s elder brother passed away, entrusting his son, Daguan, to Boyu’s care. When Daguan came of age, he was misled by scheming classmates and demanded a division of the family estate. CHEN Boyu yielded and gave him half the family wealth. However, Daguan became addicted to a life of indulgence and pleasure, squandering everything until he was reduced to beggary. During a year of famine, Daguan learned that Boyu was distributing relief and came to receive aid. When Boyu saw his nephew among the recipients, he flew into rage and struck him in anger. Fearing he might seriously harm Daguan, Mrs. CHEN and the servant CHEN Zhi secretly gave the young man some silver and helped him escape. Ashamed and full of remorse, Daguan went to the ancestral graveyard and wept bitterly as he offered sacrifices to his deceased parents. When CHEN Boyu arrived and noticed the ashes of burnt offerings, he inquired and discovered that Daguan still remembered his kin. Moved by this, he gave the youth a stern lecture and took him home once again. Daguan repented and applied himself diligently to study, eventually coming first in the highest imperial examination. This particular scene recounts the episode in which CHEN Boyu, upon finding his nephew at the relief site, angrily strikes him.
Cast
CHEN Boyu: ZHU Qiang
CHEN Daguan: LI Hongtu
ZHU Qiang as CHEN Boyu
LI Hongtu as CHEN Daguan
Farewell to My Concubine (Seasonal Closure Series)
In the late Qin Dynasty, during the conflict between Chu and Han, XIANG Yu ignored sound counsel and insisted on marching his troops into battle. As he advanced near Jiuli Hill, he fell into HAN Xin’s tenfold ambush formation and became trapped at Gaixia. Realizing that the tide had turned against him, XIANG Yu returned to his tent, where he drank and sang mournfully with his beloved Concubine YU. In an effort to comfort him, Concubine YU rose to dance. To ease XIANG Yu’s burden of concern, she took up a sword and, after finishing her dance, took her own life.
Cast
Concubine YU: WEI Haimin
XIANG Yu: HAN Juming
WEI Haimin as Concubine YU
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