Virtues of Harmony
| Virtues of Harmony | |
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Virtues of Harmony official poster
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| Genre | Historical period sitcom |
| Created by | Tsui Yu-on |
| Written by | Chiu Ching-yung Ka Wai-nam |
| Starring |
Nancy Sit Frankie Lam Michael Tse Joyce Chen Bondy Chiu Cutie Mui Louis Yuen Yvonne Lam Johnny Tang Bernice Liu Lau Dan Stephanie Che Joseph Lee Hawick Lau Johnny Ngan Helen Ma Timmy Hung Sherming Yiu Kingdom Yuen Maggie Shiu |
| Opening theme | "Virtues of Harmony" (皆大歡喜) by Nancy Sit |
| Ending theme | "Who Knows My Troubles" (心事有誰知) by Nancy Sit |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 327 |
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| Producer(s) | Tsui Yu-on |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 22–25 minutes (per episode) 42–45 minutes (DVD) |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original network | TVB Jade |
| Picture format | 480i (4:3 SDTV) |
| Original release | 17 September 2001 – 28 December 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Virtues of Harmony II (2003–2005) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Virtues of Harmony (Traditional Chinese: ) is a Hong Kong television sitcom produced by Tsui Yu-on for TVB, which originally aired on TVB Jade from 17 September 2001 to 28 December 2002. The series, set in the fictional town of Chi Lik Kung Tsan, revolves around the Kam House, a new rich family during the reign of the Chenghua Emperor (late fifteenth century Ming Dynasty). The story is inspired by the 2000 TVB comedy drama Colourful Life.
Virtues of Harmony received positive reviews throughout its run, and became one of Hong Kong's most popular sitcoms of all time. Originally planned for 150 episodes, an additional 200 episodes were added to the series after achieving high viewership ratings. Virtues of Harmony spawned a sequel Virtues of Harmony II (2003), which takes place in modern-day, and an original musical (2002), which starred the same cast.
Yau Nim-chi is the matriarch of the new rich Kam House, and a single mother of the 24-year-old Kam triplets. The Kam family owns a restaurant in town, famous for its noodles, which are notoriously cooked by Nim-chi's arrogant younger brother, Yau Nim-fu.
The bubbly Princess Sam-tin, the emperor's favorite and only child, is of age to marry, and the emperor decides to hold a contest for scholars around the capital city to compete for her hand in marriage. Nim-chi's oldest son Kam Nin, a young and intelligent fifth-ranking scholar-official working for the royal court, is forced to join the contest. Nin's future career would have remained stable if it wasn't for his frank tongue; in the contest, he writes a poem denouncing the princess for being too childish and oblivious to hardships of the common people. This angers the princess, and she demotes him to a lowly ninth-ranking official, sending him back to his hometown Chi Lik Kung Town to be the town's magistrate.
The emperor soon arranges Princess Sam-tin to marry the Persian prince after failing to find a suitor for her in the contest. Displeased, she and her eunuch Siu-yuen escapes the palace and ends up in Chi Lik Kung Town. In town, she is happy to see men working for her lily pond, but when she sees a very ugly statue of herself being built, she grows angry and smashes the statue into pieces, leading her to be tried in court, where she confronts Magistrate Nin. Nin, oblivious to the fact that she's the princess, asks her for her name. Hiding her identity, the princess invents the name "Kung Yan-so" on a whim. Upon hearing her name, Nim-chi takes the princess home, mistaking her to be the daughter of the Kam family's savior, who died to save Nin. Seeing that the Kam household is a good place for shelter, she and Siu-yuen decide to stay in the Kam household until it's safe for them to leave, simultaneously completing a chain of community labor in Nin's office as a punishment for destroying government property.
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