''Feng Shui Family'' () is a

Taiwanese Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien ( , ), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taigi ( zh, c=臺語, tl=Tâi-gí), Taiwanese Southern Min ( zh, c=臺灣閩南語, tl=Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively ...

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that began airing on

Formosa Television Formosa Television () is a television station based in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Established on March 27, 1996, FTV began broadcasting on June 11, 1997 as the first free-to-air television station established without direct relationship to a p ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

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

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(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 Feng shui ( or ), sometimes called Chinese geomancy, is a traditional form of geomancy that originated in ancient China and claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment. The term ''feng shui'' mean ...

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, Taiwan (the Republic of China) in charge of promoting government policies and regulating media in Taiwan, domestic media. Histo ...

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) (

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: ''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 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's '' The Time to Live and the Time to Die'' (1985).Brynes, Paul (December 8, 1988) "Hou's Gripping Artistry", ''The Sydney Morning Herald ' ...

as Tsai Fu-cheng, Tsai Hsiao-ping's father * Shara Lin 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 *'' A City of Sadness'' (1989) *'' The Dul ...

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

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

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