The Spirits of Love

The Spirits of Love or Love (Chinese: 愛; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ài; literally: "love") is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that aired on Formosa Television in Taiwan from 28 November 2006 to 21 May 2008.

The characters in this Taiwan drama serial sacrifice everything for their lovers. The love of kinship, friendship and affection spread outward from them. Love brings not only warmth and sunshine, but also conflict and contradiction.

It stars Chen Meifeng, Wang Shih-hsien (王識賢), Fon Cin, Chiang Tsu-ping, Jimmy Ni (倪齊民), and June Tsai (六月). The show has five theme songs including Wu Bai & China Blue's 1995 hit "Love You Ten Thousand Years" (愛你一萬年).

The show aired in Taiwan every weeknight at prime time (20:00) and had a total of 386 episodes (or 787 episodes for an-hour-per-episode broadcast). It subsequently aired in Malaysia on the Hokkien-language Astro Hua Hee Dai channel from 3.30pm - 4.30pm and an encore at 11.00pm - 12.00am. It started its run on 5 November 2007 and ended its run on 19 October 2010. A Vietnamese dub khi nguoi ta yeu aired on THVL Channel E, streamable on TVBVIP and on YouTube.

Cast

Luos

Lins

Wangs

For Wang Wenqiang, see the Zhangs

Mas

Zhangs

Songs

Lius

Yangs

Masha's family (United Hotel)

Lis

Hong Shuibo's family

Guos

Hongs (World Hotel)

Wus (Former County Council Speaker's family)

Lais

Xies

Tangs

Tang Zhen's family

Dings

International broadcast

 Singapore broadcast

Due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in Chinese dialects, the show was dubbed into Mandarin when it aired on Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 8, thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin and was the first Taiwan drama to broadcast in Singapore. It was broadcast on weekends from 7pm to 10pm. However, viewers gave feedback that it should be a weekday drama. Soon, it became a weekday drama and after Night Market Life took over the weekend slot.

Repeat telecast (2015 & 2016)

It repeated its run from Monday - Thursday from 10.30 am to 12.30pm and ended its repeat telecast and the drama has taken over from Night Market Life at the 04:00 SST timeslot.

 Taiwan broadcast

As of June 2011, the show airs in Taiwan, country of origin of the drama every weeknight at prime time (20:00) with episodes which have ranged in length from 135 to 150 minutes including commercial advertisements. The producers received funding from the Government Information Office to produce the series in high definition. With admiration and some criticism, the show concluded on 19 July 2011, when the brand-new television drama of Formosa Television, Father and Son(Chinese: 父與子), was released.

 Vietnam broadcast

The Vietnamese dub "Doi Song Cho Dem" was broadcast on Vinh Long Television Station Channel (THVL) (Vietnamese: Truyền Hình Vĩnh Long) and is streamable on YouTube. The show was aired on Vietface TV from 1pm-2:30pm (PT), however, it was fully aired as it was replaced with Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann. The show is also currently airing on E Channel.

 Malaysia broadcast

The drama is broadcasting now in 8TV in original Hokkien language under the English title The Spirit of Love for two episodes with one hour each from Monday to Friday, at 11:30 MST and 13:00 MST with a 30 minutes break of its Midday Mandarin News at 12:30 MST.^[1]

Summary

The characters in this Taiwan drama serial sacrifice everything for their lovers. The love of kinship, friendship and affection spread outward from them. "Love" brings not only warmth and sunshine, but also conflicts and contradiction.

Music

Theme Song

Sub Theme Songs

See also

• Taiwanese drama

References

External links

• Program webpage at Formosa Television website (in Chinese)
• Program cast and synopsis at Mediacorp xinmsn website (in Chinese) (in English)