The Dance of Passion

Dance of Passion 火舞黃沙
Genre	Period Drama
Starring	Bowie Lam Moses Chan Ada Choi Gigi Lai Charmaine Sheh Maggie Shiu Kenny Wong Chan Hung Lit Chung King Fai Vinci Wong
Opening theme	"Wind and Sand" (風沙) by Bowie Lam
Ending theme	"Lovers Within the Yellow Sand" (黃沙中的戀人) by Charmaine Sheh
Country of origin	Hong Kong
Original language(s)	Cantonese
No. of episodes	32
Production
Producer(s)	Jonathan Chik
Running time	45 minutes (approx.)
Release
Original network	TVB
Original release	May 1 – June 12, 2006
External links
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The Dance of Passion (Traditional Chinese: ) is a TVB period drama series broadcast in May 2006.

The series was filmed in Yinchuan, (Ningxia in Mainland China) and Hong Kong.

The entire series revolves around the lives of two clans: the Yim clan (閻族) and the Sung Clan (宋族), in the Loess Plateau area of the Shanbei region during the Republican era.

In a time before the series, a plague swept through the area where the Yim clan lives, pushing the clan to near extinction. However, the Sung clan arrived and taught the Yim clan to use gunpowder to ward off the plague. Later, after the disease was eradicated, the Sung clan taught the Yim clan the art of making fireworks and firecrackers, and this brought the Yim clan a new level of prosperity. In gratitude, the Yim clan elders of the time issued an edict, ordering the entire Yim clan and their descendants to care for all members of the Sung clan from cradle to grave, with no exceptions.

This edict is the foundation of the conflict central to the series. By the time of the series, the Sung clan is a shadow of its former self, with no brilliant or prominent clansmen of significant accomplishment. As a result, the entire Sung clan has become reliant on the care of the Yim clan. This has caused the Yim clan to perceive the Sung clan as parasites. The series focuses on the rivalries between these two formerly harmonious clans, and the efforts by the Yim clan to remove the Sung clan from their settlement. This, in addition to the intra-clan rivalries in the Sung and the Yim clans, and the constant threat from a group of bandits known as the Horseback Bandits (馬賊), set the tone of the entire series.

TVB had been promoting this series heavily, thus creating a huge hype for the series even before it began its run. An early premiere along the lines of Hollywood movie premieres was held on April 24, 2006 at the International Finance Centre Palace. Many refer to this series as the "War and Beauty II" due to its striking similarity of the cast (with the exception of Maggie Cheung and Sheren Tang, the latter allegedly due to contract disputes), most of the cast remained the same with the addition of Ada Choi and Maggie Shiu. Both productions also share the same producer Johnathon Chik. However, it is not a sequel or prequel and the storyline is completely different from the original War and Beauty.

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