''The Legend of Wong Tai Sin'' (黃大仙) is a TVB television series premiered in 1986 based on the story of

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Music

Theme song "The Illumination of a Thousand World" (光照萬世) and sub theme song "Passing With the Wind" (隨風而逝) were composed and arranged by

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. The lyricist was Tang Wai-hung and performer was

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Synopsis

Rain god Chisongzi (

) was supposed to take orders from heaven to rain many consecutive months to punish the humans via flood storms. However he could not bear to watch the humans suffer so much. The

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then punishes the Rain god by sending him to be

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d as a human on earth. In the

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predicted that the current

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would be overthrown by someone born on August 23 that year. The emperor ordered all babies born on that date killed. But even after the mass execution, the emperor would continue to have reoccurring nightmares about being assassinated. It turns out his own son, Prince Lung (

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) was born on that date and ended up killing him. Lung would bring a lot of troubles to the kingdom in an effort to become the next ruler. Rain god was now reincarnated as Wong Zo-ping, a miracle doctor and healer who tried to help many people along the way. Later Wong Zo-ping becomes heavenly

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on earth Wong Tai-sin to face off against the corrupt empire. He would eventually become a legendary icon.

Cast

tv remaking on film

Lam Ching-ying Lam Ching-ying (; born Lam Gun-bo (); 27 December 1947 – 8 November 1997) was a Hong Kong stuntman, actor, and action director. As a practitioner of martial arts Lam starred in a number of notable films that found recognition outside Hong Kong ...

is now a role as Himself in the 1992 film that used by its own title and not only sequeled of an tvb tv series.

References

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