Reincarnated (TV series)
| Reincarnated | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Wuxia |
| Starring |
Norman Tsui Ng Wai Kwok Nora Miao Candice Yu On On |
| Opening theme | "天蠶變" (Reincarnated) by Michael Kwan |
| Composer(s) | Michael Lai |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 60 |
| Release | |
| Original network | RTV |
| First shown in | 1979 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by |
Dragon Strikes Reincarnated II (1993 Sequel) |
| Reincarnated | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 天蠶變 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 天蚕变 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | tiān cán biàn |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | tin1 caam4 bin3 |
Reincarnated is a 60 episode 1979 wuxia television series and was produced and aired by Rediffusion Television in Hong Kong and also a series of books, TV and films written by Wong Ying who co-wrote some of Gu Long stories, such as the Six Spine-Chilling Stories Series and other people.
The story is the hero's journey of the protagonist Wan Fei Yeung (雲飛揚), zh:Yün Fēi Chǎng) from a lowly servant at the Wudan martial arts school to becoming the predominant martial artist in the martial world.
Although by day Wan Fei Yeung appears to be devoid of martial ability, a simple bumpkin and the butt of practical jokes and the contempt of the schools pupils, he is in fact the most able martial artist of all the youngsters at the school. Every night since childhood Wan has secretly practised martial arts in the woods taught to him by a masked teacher whose identity is a secret even to him.
Wan is the actually illegitimate son of Tsing Tsung (青松), the head of the Wudang school, however as a Taoist sect sworn to chastity, Tsing dare not acknowledge Wan as his son, nor out of fear of discovery accept him as an official pupil of the school. However out of paternal responsibility it is Tsing who secretly teaches Wan not only the basic patterns and forms taught to ordinary students of the school but also those patterns and forms reserved for senior initiates in the school. These advanced patterns allow a practitioner to channel and nurture his qi and is reserved for those who may potentially become head of the school.
The advanced art has eight levels and at the highest level would allow the practitioner to spin a cocoon around his body. While in this cocoon, his or her body will be completely remade and become infused with qi. At the time that the practitioner breaks out of his cocoon, not only will his martial arts prowess be greatly enhanced, he or she is reborn, and is thus said to be reincarnated.
However, the seventh part of the art has been lost, and for generations even the heads of the school have been unable to progress beyond the sixth level, although they still have the eighth part of the manual intact no Wudang practitioner in living history has been able to jump from the sixth to the eighth level.
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