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Cast

Yan Clan

• Yan Wanxi (閻萬曦, portrayed by Bowie Lam)- The bullying, tyrannical leader of the Yan Clan, and boss of the Yan Clan's business operations: the Jiqing Tang (吉慶堂). He and his brother, Yan Wantien, have relied on each other ever since their parents died. A childhood accident left Wanxi deaf, but his brutal and ruthless streaks caught the attention of the Clan leader Yan Guoye, who elevated Wanxi to the Clan leadership upon is retirement.

• Yan Guoye (閻國業, portrayed by Chung King Fai)- A retired Clan leader who appears to be genial and well-tempered which concealed a ruthless and cruel personality. He is the constant stirrer of controversies within the Yan Clan.

• Yan Wantien (閻萬天, portrayed b Vinci Wong)- A timid, well-mannered, and educated member of the Yan Clan, often used by others as a pawn in their overall power struggle.

• Yan Shaohung (閻少虹, portrayed by Rebecca Chan)- The sister of Yan Guoye, who was almost beaten to death by Guoye when she discovered his affair with a Song Clanswoman. The assault led to her paralysis, which created massive guilt for Guoye

• Ji Mingfeng (計明鳳, portrayed by Gigi Lai)- The wife of Yan Wanxi, who is almost always treated by Wanxi with suspicion.

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Song Clan

• Song Dongsheng (宋東昇, portrayed by Moses Chan)- A Song Clansman who fell in love with a widow. This led to an execution by firecrackers (in what the two clans call "the Lighting of the Heavenly Lights", or 點天燈 in Chinese) that was stopped by sheer luck. He was subsequently expelled from the Song Clan, but managed to return shortly thereafter.

• Jia Chunfen (家春分, portrayed by Charmaine Sheh)- She was scheduled to marry Song Donsheng in an arranged marriage, but the marriage was annulled because of Dongsheng's ouster from the Song Clan. This led to her being labeled as a person of bad luck. She was forced to marry Song Dongyang (brother of Song Dongsheng) afterwards, but the marriage ends in disaster.

• Jiao Yu (焦玉, portrayed by Ada Choi)- The conniving head of the Song Clan who took power upon the death of the Clan elder by forging a will. She was involved in an elaborate plan to exact revenge for her son's death towards the end of the series.

• Song Dongyang (宋東陽, portrayed by Kenny Wong Tak Bun)- A Song Clansman who eventually rose to the level of Clan leader. His secret of impotence was hidden from the Song Clan.

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Other Character

• Mao Tu (茅土, portrayed by Chan Hung Lie)- A well-digger who came from a family with an illustrious history of well-digging.

Synopsis

The entire series revolves around the lives of two clans: the Yan Clan (閻族) and the Song Clan (宋族), in the Loess Plateau area of the Shanbei region during the Republican era. This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... Shanbei (Chinese: 陝北; pinyin: shÇŽnbei; also spelled Shaanbei) is a region of northwestern China, in the Shaanxi province. ... For the Chinese civilization, see China. ...

In a time before the series, a plague swept through the area where the Yan Clan was settled in, almost pushing the entire clan to extinction. However, the Song Clan arrived during this time, and taught the Yan Clan to use gunpowder to ward off the plague. Later, after the disease was eradicated, the Song Clan taught the Yan Clan the art of making fireworks and firecrackers, and this brought the Yan Clan a level of prosperity never before seen. As a result, the Yan Clan elders at the time issued an edict, ordering the entire Yan Clan and their descendants to care for all members of the Song Clan from cradle to grave, no exceptions.

However, this edict laid the foundation of conflict that is center to the series. By the time of the series, the Song Clan is only a shadow of its former self, with no brilliant or prominent clansmen with significant accomplishments. As a result, the entire Song Clan became reliant on the care of the Yan Clan, which caused the Yan Clan to perceive the Song Clan as parasites. The entire series is focused on the rivalries between these two formerly harmonious clans, and the efforts by the Yan Clan to remove the Song Clan from their settlement. This, in addition to the intra-clan rivalries in the Song and the Yan clans, and the constant threat from a group of bandits known as the Horseback Criminals (馬賊), set the tone of the entire series.

Finale

The ending is considered to be the pinnacle of the entire series by many viewers.

At the end of the series, Jiao Yu and Song Dongsheng's plan of revenge against Yan Wanxi began to take hold, and the plan also dragged other innocent parties, such as Jia Chunfen and Mao Tu, in. Meanwhile, Yan Guoye, in an attempt to remove Wanxi in lieu of the more malleable, gullible Yan Wantien, remanded the capital of the Jiqing Tang business. Eventually, when Yan Guoye died, everything within the two clans began to fail. A long-standing affair between Yan Wanxi and Jiao Yu was revealed by other Yan Clansmen, and as a result, Yan Wanxi and Jiao Yu was due to be executed by the Lighting of the Heavenly Lights (點天燈)- the same method of execution that Song Dongsheng experienced in the beginning of the series.

It was revealed at that point that the affair between Jiao Yu and Yan Wanxi was, in fact, a portion of the elaborate revenge plot that Jiao Yu and Song Dongsheng hatched. However, just as Yan Wanxi was due to be executed, Dongsheng, who was persuaded by Jia Chunfen to forego the plot and flee the Yan Clan settlement with her, released Jiao Yu and Yan Wanxi. Meanwhile, Chunfen and Mingfeng, who were detained by Yan Clansmen involved in a coup to replace Wanxi, managed to get the wife of the coup leader to release them and allow them to rescue their husband. However, as they made their trek to the execution site, Mingfeng was arrested by the Horseback Criminals, and both the wife of the coup leader and Chunfen were raped by the bandit-men.

As Jiao Yu and Yan Wanxi made their trek away from the settlement, they made a stop at Jiao Yu's child's grave. During this stop, Yu and Wanxi was surrounded by the Horseback Criminals bandit. Wanxi was blinded by one of the bandit members, leaving him deaf and blind, and thus, unable to know what is happening around him. The leader of the Horseback Criminal bandit, although desiring to kill Wanxi, could not do so because of a pledge he made earlier with his dead lover. With that in mind, he offered a solution: Jiao Yu and Mingfeng (who, after being arrested by the bandits, was brought to the immediate area) are to extend their hands forward, and whoever Wanxi chooses will be executed on the spot. Given that Wanxi is by now deaf and blind, the outcome is completely random. As Wanxi slowly, but surely, approaches Mingfeng, Jiao Yu, realizing that her hate and desire for revenge is the only reason for her survival, and that Wanxi will now suffer for the rest of his live, signaled Wanxi to approach her instead by loosening her hair. Wanxi finally approached Yu, with Mingfeng lamenting at Yu's decision, which will directly cause her death. Wanxi felt Yu's face and hand shortly before he passed out, and the Horseback Criminals executed Yu immediately afterwards.

Meanwhile, for the Yan and Song Clans living inside the settlement, word that the Horseback Criminals are attacking the settlement spread, and this, along with the depletion of underground gas after Mao Tu dug a gas well and burnt it up by throwing a torch into it, caused a massive exodus that led to the abandonment of the settlement.

Wanxi was rescued by his brother, Wantien, who carried him and Mingfeng to Jia Chunfen's childhood home. Because Wanxi is now blind and deaf, and the last person he felt before he lost consciousness was Jiao Yu, Wanxi mistakenly believed that Mingfeng was Jiao Yu. This mistake went on for years until Mingfeng revealed the secret. It is not known, however, if Wanxi will ever know about Jiao Yu's execution.

Meanwhile, Song Dongsheng, who was left disappointed after waiting at the Yan Clan settlement for Chunfen (who promised to wait for him if Dongsheng abandons his plot of revenge), returned to Shanbei as a soldier for the Republican Army. After meeting up with Wanxi and Mao Tu, he set off on a trek to find Chunfen.

The series fast-forwarded to 2006 in the last few minutes of the series, with the Yan Clan settlement, after abandonment for 70 years, being redeveloped into a production facility for various ancient times theme video production. Chunfen, now an elderly woman, was with a group of tourists who is visiting the facility. As she walked through the once-familiar streets, scenes of the settlement's more prosperous times, along with the people she knew, came back as if she was seeing it in real time. At the last moments of the series, Chunfen walked up to the city walls, and spread the ashes of Song Dongsheng on the town that he was born in. The final moments show her and Dongsheng, both in their younger years, embracing each other after a rendezvous, but whether the images are real, or just a figment of imagination from Chunfen, was left unexplained, leaving the viewers to decide whether Chunfen and Dongsheng really met up, or if Chunfen somehow gathered Dongsheng's ashes years later.

Promotion and Ratings

The series began airing on May 1st, 2006 and ended its original run on June 12th, 2006 in Hong Kong. The series was aired in TVB's US satellite channel TVB-USA, in the summer of 2007. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Some people refer to this series as the "War and Beauty II" due to its striking similarity of the cast (with the exception of Maggie Cheung Ho Yee and Sheren Tang, the latter allegedly due to contract disputes), most of the cast remains the same with the addition of Ada Choi and Maggie Siu. Both productions also share the same producer Chik Kee Yee. However, it is not a sequel/prequel and the storyline is completely different from the original "War and Beauty". War and Beauty (金枝慾孽) was a 30-episode TV series broadcasted in Hong Kong in 2004 by TVB Jade starring Maggie Cheung, Charmaine Sheh, Gigi Lai, Sheren Tang, Bowie Lam, Moses Chan and Rebecca Chan. ... Maggie Cheung Ho Yee (Traditional Chinese: 張可頤, pinyin: Zhāng Kěyi, born 20 March 1970 in Hong Kong), not to be confused with Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, is a Hong Kong actress, under contract to the television channel TVB. As such she owes her popularity for her work to that... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Ada Choi Siu Fun (蔡少芬, Pinyin: Cai Shaofen) is a Hong Kong actress best known for her work for TVB television, and to a lesser extent, for her film work. ... Maggie Siu Mei Kei (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) (born 27 February 1965) is a Hong Kong prominent actress. ... War and Beauty (金枝慾孽) was a 30-episode TV series broadcasted in Hong Kong in 2004 by TVB Jade starring Maggie Cheung, Charmaine Sheh, Gigi Lai, Sheren Tang, Bowie Lam, Moses Chan and Rebecca Chan. ...

TVB had been promoting this series heavily, thus creating a huge hype for the series even before it began its run. An early premiere along the lines of Hollywood movie premieres was held on April 24th, 2006 at the International Finance Centre Palace. REDIRECT Television Broadcasts Limited ... ... International Finance Centre (abbr. ...

Ratings report showed that the premiere episode broke the ratings record in recent years with an average of 36 points, which roughly translates to 2.31 million audiences. The second episode also maintained the same ratings.

TVB, at the time, was confident the ratings of the series will continue to rise. However, the ratings began to fall flat following the next several weeks. Some believe that the premise of the show, which had two rival families constant bickering with each other, and the desert setting (which constantly produces a monochrome yellow color that was dramatically enhanced in Post-Production on TV), made the show somewhat tiresome. However, the ratings for all episodes were above 30 points, remarkable in Hong Kong standards.

The finale pulled in 35 points overall and peaked at 38 points. Though the series received some criticisms, it was considered as one of the top 5 highest rated TVB series of 2006, just below La Femme Desperado, Forensic Heroes, The Saviour of The Soul and Bar Bender. La Femme Desperado (Chinese Title: 女人唔易做) is a 2006 TVB (Hong Kong) series. ... Forensic Heroes (法證先鋒) (Cantonese: Faat Jing Sin Fung; English: Forensic Heroes) is the Chinese version of CSI first broadcast on TVB June 2006. ... Bar Bender. ...

The series launched a few actors and actresses in the series to new popularity heights. The most notable example came from Kenny Wong Tak Bun, a relatively unknown actor who attracted much attention in the series due to his athletic build.

Title

火舞黃沙 - Dance of Passion Dance Of Passion 2006 TVB Series Poster © Copyrighted by TVB, Hong Kong The Dance of Passion (Traditional Chinese: 火舞黃沙) was a 30-episode TV series broadcast in Hong Kong by the shows producers TVB. It is broadcast now on TVB Jade since May 1, 2006. ...

PinYin: Huo Wu Huang Sha

Literary translation: Dancing Flame on Golden Sand

Filming Location

The drama series was filmed in Yinchuan, (Ningxia in Mainland China) and Hong Kong. Ningxia (Simplified Chinese: 宁夏; Traditional Chinese: 寧夏; Pinyin: Níngxià; Wade-Giles: Ning-hsia; Postal Pinyin: Ningsia), full name Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Simplified Chinese: 宁夏回族自治区; Traditional Chinese: 寧夏回族自治區; Pinyin: Níngxià Huízú Zìzhìqū), is a Hui autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, located on the northwest Loess...

Ratings

• 1st & 2nd episodes - 36 TVRs
• 1st week (05/01/2006 - 05/05/2006) - 34 TVRs (Peaking at 36 TVRs)
• 2nd week (05/07/2006 - 05/12/2006) - 33 TVRs (Peaking at 35 TVRs)
• 3rd week (05/15/2006 - 05/19/2006) - 31 TVRs (Peaking at 33 TVRs)
• 4th week (05/22/2006 - 05/26/2006) - 32 TVRs (Peaking at 33 TVRs)
• 5th week (05/29/2006 - 06/02/2006) - 30 TVRs
• 6th week (06/05/2006 - 06/09/2006) - 31 TVRs (Peaking at 34 TVRs)
• Final Episode (6/12/2006) - 35 TVRs (Peaking 38 TVRs)

See Also

• List of TVB series released in 2006

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External Links

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