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[color=red]大汉贤后卫子夫 / Da Han Xian Hou Wei Zi Fu[/color]
English title: The Virtuous Queen of Han
Genre: Romance, historical series
Episodes: 40
Broadcast network: Zhejiang Huace Film & TV
Broadcast period: 2014
[color=red]Synopsis[/color]
The legendary rise of a lowly singer to the prestigious status of an Empress.
An innocent and gracious girl who is loved by the Emperor, The undercurrent of strife in imperial harem surrounds her with constant danger.
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[color=red]Cast[/color]
Wang Luo Dan as Wei Zi Fu
Raymond Lam as Liu Che
Niki Chow as Princess Pingyang
Xu Zheng Xi ad Duan Hong
Shen Tai as (沈泰) as Wei Qing
Chen Sha Li as Grand Empress Dowager Dou
Grace Yu as Empress Dowager Wang
Liu Ying Hong (柳影虹) as Princess Guantao
Zheng Miao Zhi (郑淼之) as Chen A Jiao
Li Xin Cong (李欣聪) as Shen Jia
Liu Yong (刘永) as Liu An
Peng Guo Liang (彭国梁) as Yi Han
Yang Zi Jiang (杨紫茳) as Xia Hou Po
Zheng Si Ren (郑斯仁) as Han Yan
Zhang Ya Xi (张亚希) as Huo Qu Bing
Miao Hao Jun as Ai Shu
Zhang Xu (张绪) as Bai Hao
Wang Meng Li (王萌黎) as Yao Ji 姚姬
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[color=purple]H i s t o r y[/color]
[color=red]Liu Che - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty[/color]
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, named Liu Che, who lived from 157BC to 87BC, was the fifth emperor in the Han Dynasty. He was enthroned at 16 years old and ruled 54 years. Emperor Wu was one of
the talented and ambitious emperors in the Chinese history,
and Han Dynasty became the most powerful nation at that time in the world under his reign.
During the times of Emperor Wu, in politics he adopted people-conciliation policy, perfect administration and
supervision system to strengthen the centralization of authority; in economy he rectified finance, centralized the right of iron, salt and coin under the central government, collected asset tax of businessmen; in military affairs he defeated Huns' central plains aggression to establish basic domain of Chinese Empire; in culture he put forward "Paying Supreme Tribute to Confucianism while Banning All Other Schools of Thought" to consolidate the mainstream status of Confucianism; for the foreign relations, he sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, thereby developing the Silk Road and enhancing the communications with the west regions; in addition, he also attached great importance to talents development and established examine system which was the beginning of Chinese systemic selecting talents system.
For Emperor Wu's great talent and bold vision, The Strategies of Administration and Military set a good example for the later hundreds of emperors; during Emperor Wus time, "unification" not only initiated history river of Han people forming and all nationalities unification, but also unfolded the prosperous chapter of Chinese people. Chinese famous historian Jian Bozan once appraised appropriately, "His outstanding achievements and doings also penetrate deeply into our nation's history and tradition"Emperor Wu was buried at Mao Mausoleum which lies in the 40km northwest of Xi'an and is the Key Cultural Relic under the State-level Protection. Mao Mausoleum built grandly and filled with great and luxurious buried treasures. There are many tombs around Mao Mausoleum, including Lady Li, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Huo Guang, Jin Richan, etc. Mao Mausoleum ranks the top among Han Emperors mausoleums in terms of scale,
building time and the buried treasures, so it is called "The Pyramid of China"
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/46History151.html
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[color=red]Wei Zifu[/color]
(Traditional Chinese: 衛子夫; Simplified Chinese: 卫子夫; pinyin: We Zǐfū) (died 91 BC), posthumously known as Empress Si of Wu (孝武思皇后) or Wei Si Hou (衛思后, "Wei the Thoughtful Empress"), was an empress during ancient China's Han Dynasty. She was the second wife of the famous Emperor Wu
and his spouse of 49 years, and stayed as his empress for 38 years,
the second longest in Chinese history (behind only the 42-year reign of Empress Wang,
the wife of Ming Dynasty's Wanli Emperor, who came over 1,600 years later).
She was the mother of Emperor Wu's heir apparent, Crown Prince Liu Ju, as well as the older half-sister of the famed general Wei Qing, the younger aunt of Huo Qubing, the step-aunt of Han statesman Huo Guang and the great grandmother of Liu Bingyi.
Family background and early years
Wei Zifu was born from humble means, out of a serf family.
She was the fourth child and the youngest daughter of a lowly maid/servant at the household of Princess Pingyang (平陽公主), Emperor Wu's older sister. Her father presumably died around the time of her birth, as there were little historic records of most of her family members. Her younger half-brother Wei Qing, born not long after her, was an illegitimate child from an extramarital affair by his mother with a low-level official serving the Princess's household. When Wei Zifu was still young,
she was recruited as a singer at the princess' estate, where she was also trained in dancing and the Four Arts.[1]
[color=red]The Four Arts [/color](四藝, siyi), or the Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar, were the four main accomplishments required of the Chinese scholar gentleman. They are qin (the guqin, a stringed instrument. 琴), qi (the strategy game of Go, 棋), shu ( Chinese calligraphy 書) and hua (Chinese painting 畫).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arts
Wei Zifu was often seen as the backbone of the family. A contemporary folk song sang:
Nothing to be happy if you bore a son. Nothing to be angry if you bore a daughter. Don't you see Wei Zifu dominates the world!
生男無喜,生女無怒,獨不見衛子夫霸天下!
Because the great achievements of this Wei family, many later Han emperors considered marrying concubines with the surname Wei as a way of attaining good fortune.
During her tenure, Wei Zifu was recorded as a modest, careful and low-key empress,
who tried her best to keep her clan members in line and out of trouble.
The legendary historian Sima Qian, despite often displaying a skeptical and condescending
attitude towards Emperor Wu's extended families, described Empress Wei as
"fine in virtues" (嘉夫德若斯).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Wei_Zifu
[color=red]The Four Gifts ideology[/color]
The Virtuous Queen of Han is directed by Hong Kongs Lau Kaho, with Mui Siuceng as the producer. Muis television series have always been conveying positive motivation, thus The Virtuous Queen of Han is no exception. In an interview with Mui, she revealed Virtuous will be conveying elements such as non-conflicting, non-boastful, non-revealing, wealth, poverty, sweetness, and bitterness with joy, togetherness, peacefulness, family unity and kindness determination as well as the Four Gifts ideology.
Mui mentioned that she really likes Master Hsing Yuns positive ideology, and incorporated much of them into her television series, such as the three virtue element in Beyond the Realm of Conscience, being the do good deeds, say good words, have good intentions.
I also really like Four Gifts, give confidence, give happiness, give hope, give convenience, if everyone gives others four gifts, then it would be perfect. In this creation Virtuous, I thought of incorporating these elements, thus the character Siu Ngaan which is played by special guest Michelle Ye.
http://www.michelle-ye.com/apps/blog...eries-revealed
[color=red]Ban Zhao: Scholar of Han Dynasty China[/color]
Yuen Ting Lee :
A woman (ought to) have four qualifications: (1) womanly virtue; (2) womanly words; (3) womanly bearing; and (4) womanly work. Now what is called womanly virtue need not be brilliant ability, exceptionally different from others.
Womanly words need be neither clever in debate nor keen in conversation. Womanly appearance requires neither a pretty nor a perfect face and form. Womanly work need not be work done more skilfully than that of others.
(Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women, chapter IV; translated by Nancy Swann)
Ban Zhao (c. 45120) was the first woman historian of China. She is known for her contributions to a masterpiece of Chinese historical writing, Han Shu (History of the Former Han Dynasty) and to an extant classic of Chinese women's
education, N Jie (Lessons for Women or Admonitions for Women).
Her works became standard reference for the education of daughters from Han China through the Qing period and, along with her other literary and educational accomplishments, won her the respectful traditional title of the "Venerable Madame Cao."1 Despite her scholarly contributions to Han China and to succeeding dynasties,
Ban Zhao has not attracted much attention from Western scholars.
Nancy Lee Swann wrote a much reprinted biography of Ban Zhao in 1932, but only recently has her career found its way into several publications in English.2 According to Paul Goldin, this revival of interest is attributable to the increasing importance of Chinese gender studies as a field of academic inquiry in general.3 If so, this current wave of interest is typical of the fluctuations in appreciation of her work over the centuries. Each major historical age in Chinese historiography has offered its own often widely differing interpretation of her life and career work, a process that no doubt will continue into the future.
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.i...u/9.1/lee.html
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