Dream of the Red Chamber (1987 TV series)

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A Dream of Red Mansions, produced by China Central Television, was a TV series debut in 1987. It was a adaption of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.

It gained enormous amounts of popularity with its superb music, cast, and plot. It was first filmed in Beijing in Mandarin. Then it was translated into Cantonese, Shanghainese, and other languages and aired in the rest of China. It is 36 episodes long.

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The serial contains 36 episodes spanning the novel.

  1. Daiyu Parted With Her Father and Went to the Capital
  2. Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai's First Meeting at the Hall of Glorious Pageant
  3. Granny Liu Pays Her First Visit to the Jung Mansion
  4. Daiyu Feels Slight Jealous While Meeting Baoyu at Baochai's Home
  5. Xifeng Sets a Vicious Trap for a Lover
  6. Xifeng Helps to Manage Affairs at the Ning Mansion
  7. Literary Talent Tested By Composing Inscriptions for Grandview Garden
  8. Jung Mansion Had the Imperial Consort's Visitation on the Feast of Lanterns
  9. A Sweet Girl Shows Deep Feeling One Quiet Day
  10. A Song Awakes Baoyu to Esoteric Truths
  11. Meeting a Nightmare In Seeking After Favor
  12. Daiyu Weeps at Falling Petals
  13. The Fortune Enjoys Deep Fortune and Long Life
  14. Chin-chuan Dies a Heroic Death in Shame
  15. Baoyu Was Beaten For Flirting
  16. Granny Liu Pays a Visit to Grandview Garden
  17. Xifeng Taken by Surprise Gives Ways to Jealousy
  18. Yuanyang Vows Never to Marry
  19. White Snow and Red Plum-Blossum in the Glassy World
  20. Plucky Qingwen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in Bed
  21. An Evening Banquet on the Feast of Lanterns in the Jung Mansion
  22. Ping'er Wields Authority to Right a Wrong
  23. Artful Zijuan Tests Baoyu's Feelings
  24. Girls Feast at Night in Happy Red Court
  25. The Profligate Secretly Takes Second Sister Yu as a Concubine
  26. Xifeng in Jealousy Makes a Scene in the Ning Mansion
  27. Lady Hsing Feels Wronged and Puts Xifeng in Wrong
  28. Strange Omen Occurs at Night Banquet
  29. Spoony Childe Writes a Dirge on Cottonrose Hibiscus
  30. Drifting Away of Fair Maidens From Grandview Garden
  31. Sprirtual Jade Was Stolen During a Bustling Feast
  32. Grieving Over Tanchun's Departure to Marry Far from Home
  33. Astonished by the Heavy News of the Death of Daiyu
  34. High-and-Mighty Xifeng Resigned Herself to a Fate Spread East of Bed-Curtain
  35. Collapsed Mansion Comes to an End
  36. A Vast and White Expanse of Immerse Universe

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