In addition to martial arts dramas, another major genre of Taiwanese TV dramas in the 1980s was romance dramas, and many classic masterpieces were born, earning enough tears from the audience.
In August 1983, a family-themed drama series "Stars Know My Heart" produced by Taiwan Television was broadcast, which starred Wu Jingxian, Shi Annie, Xiang Zhong, Hu Jiawei and so on. The play won several awards at the 1984 Golden Bell Awards. Wu Jingxian became the Golden Bell Award for Best Actress with the role of Gu Qiuxia.
Wu Jingxian originally made a cameo appearance in "The Stars Know My Heart", the original role was not much, but after the episode was broadcast, many viewers who cared about and sympathized with Gu Qiuxia's fate wrote letters asking the TV station not to let gu Qiuxia, who was terminally ill, die, and the choreographers had to extend her life as long as possible, and finally had to let her die.
"The Stars Know My Heart" set a record for the highest ratings of Taiwan's three major television stations, and when it was broadcast in the mainland, I don't know how many viewers cried, the plot was deeply moving, and the majority of the audience all wept for the ups and downs of the fate of the characters in the play. People have remembered the image of a great mother such as "Gu Qiuxia" and have a deeper understanding and understanding of maternal love and affection.
In 1984, China Television produced a love drama "A Cut of Plum", which starred Kou Shixun and Shen Hairong. In 1988, "A Cut of Plum" was introduced to the mainland CCTV broadcast, which immediately caused a very high rating, and its theme song "A Cut of Plum" was widely sung, and also achieved the singer Fei Yuqing.
The story tells that zhao Shijun (Kou Shixun), a bloody man, gives up his true love of heart (Shen Hairong) in order to prevent water shortages in the whole town of Shahe, and marries Qiu Ling (Li Lie), the daughter of Mang Kou Wanquan, who threatens to cut off the water source at that time. Since then, these two women and one man have hovered on the edge of love and morality, coupled with another emotional entanglement between the loving enemies Liang Yongchang (Pang Xianglin) and Su Wenyin (Zhu Liyin), thus involving two generations of love feuds that are constantly cutting and chaotic.
North wind, frost, proud snow, red plum, picturesque scenes, two generations of grievances intertwined, poignant love stories have made countless audiences moved. The theme song "A Cut of Plum" sung by Fei Yuqing has become an immortal classic in the Chinese song world, and has been sung to this day and has endured for a long time.
In the same year, China Television also broadcast another romance drama "Last Night Star", starring Kou Shixun, Shen Shihua, Zhang Yongyong, Zhang Peihua and others.
The drama tells the story of Qiu Suyun, who grew up in the city, and his brother Qiu Weilong accompanied his sick father back to the old house in the countryside.
"Last Night Star" is one of the Taiwanese TV dramas introduced by the mainland in the mid-1980s. At that time, the drama was very popular throughout the country, and it was popular with Kou Shixun, Chen Shali and others, and it also became a well-known romance drama for mainland audiences. The theme song of the same name was the most popular song on radio that year, and only a tape containing the theme song and the theme song of the TV series "A Cut of Plum" was released, and it was covered many times.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Qiong Yao's novels began to be adapted into TV dramas with the heat of publication, the main works are "Several Degrees of Sunset Red", "Smoke and Rain", "Deep in the Courtyard", "On the Side of the Water", etc., although there is basically no jump out of the difficult boy to meet the nobleman, the talented woman, the infatuated and negative man and other story prototypes, but due to the twists and turns of the storyline, the subtle and beautiful framing, the rhetorical and gorgeous dialogue, quickly won the audience applause.
The Qiong Yao dramas in the mid-to-late 1980s were basically produced by Huashi. Released in January 1986, "Several Degrees of Sunset Red" is a Republic of China love drama starring Qin Han and Liu Xuehua. The drama is the first TV series adapted from Qiong Yao's novel, telling the love story between Mengzhu, Mingyuan, Xiaocheng and Mutian during the War of Resistance.
"A Few Degrees of Sunset Red" caused a huge response after the premiere in Taiwan, Qin Han once again created the peak of his career, Liu Xuehua has been well known to Taiwanese audiences since then, and in August of the same year, Huashi produced "Smoke and Rain", also starring Qin Han and Liu Xuehua. Qiong Yao has also begun the filming and production of many TV series since then.
In October 1987, Huashi produced the love ethics drama "Courtyard Deep", which is also based on Qiong Yao's novel of the same name, starring Qin Han and Liu Xuehua, telling the twists and turns of the love experience between Zhang Hanyan and Bai Peiwen.
The drama achieved a super high rating of more than 50% when it premiered in Taiwan, creating the peak of Qiong Yao drama in the 80s, and the lead actors Qin Han and Liu Xuehua also won the Best Actor and Actress Award at the First Chinese Film and Television Award "Golden Lion Award" in Paris, France in 1987.
In early 1988, "Courtyard Deep" was followed by another Qiongyao drama "On the Side of the Water", with the same director Liu Lili as the previous Qiongyao dramas, and the same starring Qin Han and Liu Xuehua. The show's ratings when it premiered in Taiwan were not very high, and it was much worse than the previous ratings of "Courtyard Deep". Despite this, the girl "Du Xiaoshuang", played by Liu Xuehua, who is "on the side of the water" in the play, still remains in people's infinite memories.
In 1988, Taiwan released a number of classic romance dramas, in addition to "On the Side of the Water" and "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" produced by Huashi, in the same year, there were also "August Laurel Flowers" produced by Taiwan Television, "Love is Priceless" produced by China Television, and so on.
"August Laurel Flowers" is produced by Yang Peipei, directed by Ju Jueliang, starring Liu Songren, Su Mingming, Michelle, Shen Mengsheng, and a number of star-level "green leaves" such as Lei Ming, Cao Jian, Li Liqun, and Jiang Ming. It depicts the bumpy and legendary life of Hu Xueyan, a "red-top businessman", although rich and invincible, but unable to stay with true love in his life.
With the popularity of "August Laurel Flowers" in the mainland, we re-acquainted with Rowan, we know that the original Hong Kong singers can also sing Chinese songs, and sing so poignantly, so breathless, the theme song "Dust Edge" is also a song that I like to sing in karaoke.
"Love is Priceless" is a romance drama directed by Lai Shuiqing and starring Kou Shixun, Zhang Chenguang, Qi Meizhen, Qiu Yuting and Chen Shali, which was well received in Taiwan after broadcasting and also attracted attention in the mainland, hong Kong actor Qi Meizhen played He Yuqing in the play, and the drama is also the only Taiwanese drama in which Qi Meizhen participated.
"Love is Priceless" is one of the representative works of Taiwanese TV dramas, this drama can be described as a combination of gold, the plot of diamonds, excellent interpretation, and the achievement of a legend in the history of treasure island television. At that time, the theme song of the play was a street-known and catchy song, and this TV series successfully won out many newcomers, in addition to Kou Shixun, Zhang Chenguang and Qi Meizhen were all broken into the mainland by this drama. For Zhang Chenguang, the later Taiwanese romance drama is basically his world.
"August Laurel Flowers" and "Priceless Love" are the classic dramas of that year, but in the competition for the annual ratings championship, they still lost to Huashi's drama "Jinghua Smoke Cloud", because "Jinghua Smoke Cloud" has Zhao Yazhi!
Zhao Yazhi is one of the four major Huadan of Hong Kong Wireless, and has cooperated with almost all the first-line male stars in the film and television industry. She starred in TV series such as "Chu Liuxiang", "Shanghai Beach", "Flying Eagle", "Magic Land Taoyuan" and other TV series that swept the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States and Canada, and her works also won the gold medal award of the New York International Film and Television Festival.
"Jinghua Smoke Cloud" this big production can invite Zhao Yazhi to come back, it took a lot of effort, the Taiwan side of the Hong Kong actress to come to Taiwan to shoot a drama attaches great importance to, in addition to the enthusiasm of the Taiwanese people, the script excellence, the first protagonist position, to give the highest remuneration, but also asked her to be awarded at the 1987 Golden Horse Awards ceremony.
"Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" is a classic masterpiece by the literary master Mr. Lin Yutang, which is a rather peak work in the history of modern and contemporary literature, describing the rise and fall of the three major families in the context of the impact and collision of traditional Chinese culture and modern revolution.
For the role of Yao Mulan, Mr. Lin once had a famous saying "If you are a daughter, you must be Mulan", Mulan is generous, rational, tolerant, tolerant, generous, wise, perseverance, and benevolent. Lin Daiyu must be raised to go home, and Yao Mulan can handle the housework when she marries home. Yao Mulan is the epitome of traditional Chinese female wisdom, she will tell you how to live, how to face difficulties, how to deal with crises.
Understanding what kind of work Jinghua Yanyun is, and what kind of a person Yao Mulan is, it is not difficult to understand why Zhao Yazhi, who has been retired for a long time, wants to take over this scene. In 1987, the 33-year-old Zhao Yazhi starred in the role of Yao Mulan in "Beijing Smoke and Clouds", from young to old, Zhao Yazhi performed Yao Mulan's colorful and tortuous life. When zhao Yazhi took over this play, she was already a wife and a mother, experienced the setbacks and pains and failures of marriage, and found the happiness of her life, and had a rich experience of life, playing Yao Mulan can be said to be handy, and the grasp and portrayal of the psychological activities of the characters between a smile are quite in place.
Due to Zhao Yazhi's dedication to the performance, the play won the Best Dramatic Work Award at the 24th Taiwan Golden Bell Awards in 1989.
Before this play, Zhao Yazhi filmed mostly to make a living, after this play, Zhao Yazhi "to see how the script" is, filming is an artistic pursuit, is to integrate their own profound life experience into the role to show life, but also to experience the profound cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, this play can be said to be a sign of Zhao Yazhi's mature acting skills.
After "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds", Zhao Yazhi became the highest paid Hong Kong actress in Taiwan, and in the 90s, Zhao Yazhi ushered in the second peak of her personal acting career with classic Taiwan dramas such as "Joke about Qianlong", "The Legend of the New White Lady", "Qin Shi Huang and A Fangnu" and other classic Taiwan dramas.