''Feng Shui Family'' () is a

Taiwanese Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien () (; Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-uân-uē''), also known as Taigi/Taigu (; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/ Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú''), Taiwanese, Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by about 7 ...

television drama In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

that began airing on

Formosa Television Formosa Television () is a television station based in New Taipei, Taiwan. Established on March 27, 1996, FTV began broadcasting on June 11, 1997. Formosa Television is also the first free-to-air television station which was established wit ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

on 17 July 2012 to 7 March 2014. The show aired in Taiwan every weeknight at

prime time Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...

(20:00). The series was one of the longest running Taiwanese television dramas, with 426 episodes.

Plot

This drama depicts the two families turning against one another due to feng shui restrictions set by their ancestors. Under the conflicting pressure of materialism and values, can they lay down their personal views and embrace one another?

International broadcasts

Taiwan

, the show airs in

, country of origin of the drama every weeknight at

(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 The Government Information Office, Executive Yuan (GIO; ) was a cabinet-level agency of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan (the Republic of China) in charge of promoting government policies and regulating domestic media. History In April 1947, the ...

to produce the series in

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. With admiration and some criticism, the show concluded on 17 July 2012, when the brand-new television drama of

, , was released.

Singapore

It is currently shown on Singapore's

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's Channel Hub E City on weekdays at 5pm and repeats at 10.30am. The show was dubbed into

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during the broadcast.

Vietnam

The Vietnamese dub ''Phong Thuỷ Thế Gia'' was broadcast on

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Station Channel (THVL) ( Vietnamese: ''Truyền Hình Vĩnh Long'').

Cast

*Chang Shu-wei as Ben, Lin Ming-ming's boyfriend *Chung Chia-chen as Lin Li-chu, Ben's mother *

Chen Mei-feng Chen Mei-feng () is a Taiwanese actress. She was the female lead in ''The Spirits of Love'' and ''Night Market Life ''Night Market Life'' () is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that began airing on Formosa Television in Taiwan on 22 Decembe ...

as Lin Li-hua, Lin Li-chu's sister *Su Yen-pei as Tsai Hsiao-ping, Lin Ming-te's girlfriend *

Yu An-shun Yu An-shun (; born 5 November 1967) is a Taiwanese actor. He was the lead actor in Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien (; born 8 April 1947) is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading ...

as Tsai Fu-cheng, Tsai Hsiao-ping's father *

Shara Lin Shara Lin Yi-hsin (born 5 November 1985) is a Taiwanese musician, actress, singer, and television host. She plays mainly violin and piano, but also guzheng The zheng () or gu zheng (), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng ...

as Ye Chia-yen *Chang Yung-hua as Ye Tsai-tien, Ye Chia-yen's father *

Chen Sung-young Chen Sung-young (; 1 July 1941 – 17 December 2021) was a Taiwanese actor. He received the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in 1989. He died on 17 December 2021, at the age of 80. Selected filmography *'' City of Sadness'' (1989) *'' The Dull I ...

as Chen Yung, Lin Chen Mei-mei's brother *Wang Chung-huang as Wang Chin-hu *

Chang Chien Zhang Qian (; died c. 114) was a Chinese official and diplomat who served as an imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the late 2nd century BC during the Han dynasty. He was one of the first official diplomats to bring back valuable inf ...

as Chang Hsiao-chien, Wang Chin-hu's wife *Eison as Wang You-chiang, Wang Chin-hu's son *Weng Chia-ming as Chiang Tai-shan *Kao Chih-hung as Monkey *Bao Bao as Fatty *Chang Tsai-Hsing as Hsing

References

External links

Program webpage
at Formosa Television website Taiwanese drama television series Formosa Television original programming 2012 Taiwanese television series debuts Hokkien-language television shows {{Taiwan-tv-stub