Hong Mao Lan Tu Huo Feng Huang is the second movie of the franchise
Up against the fierce competition of the cute sheep and wolves of Pleasant Sheep and the Big, Big Wolf 2 (喜羊羊与灰太狼之虎虎生威) this New Year’s season is Hong Mao Lan Tu Huo Feng Huang (虹猫蓝兔火凤凰), another animated feature based on a popular cartoon series. While Xi Yang Yang aims for the funny and simplistic, Hong Mao is more of an intricate epic tale that appeals to the wuxia fan in everyone. The original series, which I feel like had a much better plot, tells of seven legendary swordsmen whose children grew up and must discover their destiny and each other to defeat the evil clan in protection of the beautiful Zhangjiajie.
Both the new Hong Mao and the new XiYangYang movie are available on sohu hd. Which one do you like better?
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Xie Na and Zhang Jie hugs as Zhou Bichang looks on flabbergasted...if only she came
After about three years of rumors, two years of dueting together as couples, Zhang Jie and Xie Na finally announced their relationship officially on the Hunan TV – Baidu Search Awards. Read more of their love story here.
In the 80’s, I’ve always thought an idol must be very very handsome, like Jimmy Lin, but then I realized that an idol is an example that one can follow. I’m happy to have such an honor, and thank everyone. I think I’m very lucky, I’ve released a lot of music works; I have my family, my friends, my colleagues, and the support my friends gave me, and I have my self, who can take care of Nana. I want to tell everyone: “We’re together, very happily.” Thank you for your blessings, and happy new year everyone. Thanks.
- Zhang Jie
Baidu is like google on steroids, and has the majority of the search market in China. The complete winner’s list below the cut
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The whole Hunan TV show was uploaded at MyChineseDrama@yt. Part 1 here. For tons of pictures of the performers go here.
My favorite performance from Hunan: Yu Haoming + Liu Xijun – Bei Ji Xue
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More vids of what happened at Taipei aiyatheydidnt has a great post with most of those.
For Jiangsu TV no one really uploaded vids, so here’s Sina’s vid of my most anticipated performance from Jiangsu:
Joanna Wang out of semi-hiatus
Fayewongtoday has a post on Faye Wong attending her friend Na Ying’s much anticipated New Year Concert.
Jaycee Chan and Xie Na in Tracing Shadow
A recent article from the Shanghai Film Festival (where the Hua Yi stars coverged) talked about the Four upcoming Hua Yi “Blockbusters”, all very different in genres and styles. Two of them, I’ve already mentioned on this site. Feng Sheng/The Message and Tangshan Earthquake/Aftershocks. Despite their boring English titles, it’s clear that they were heavily funded. The third big-budget film from Hua Yi is Di Re Jie, which I’ll be talk about whenever there’s clearer pictures/footage of the cast but from concept art, it seems well-budgeted as well.
Of the three, the one that makes me question the “blockbuster” tag is Tracing Shadow , starring Jaycee Chan, Xie Na, and Pace Wu. But it’s the fun one.
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If you notice him, you’ll definitely be moved by his voice, you’ll fall in love with him.
- Xie Na
The most beautiful sun – Zhang Jie
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From the “servant girl in every movie” to one of the most popular hosts in China, Xie Na’s new book recounts her years of struggle in Beijing. In it, she also tells the story of Zhang Jie, the most controversial Super Boy of 2007, and one with a voice that touched her heart:
The first time Zhang Jie held a concert, I was scared, but as soon as I entered, I felt overwhelmed. The seats were filled, even the aisles were crowed; everything around me was blue. After watching the concert, I was again surprised. When the whole stadium sang “The most beautiful sun” together with him, my eyes were wet.I think he has a musician’s spirit: he loves music and he loves singing more than anything else. You can stop him from doing anything, but you can never stop him from singing.
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Edited #2 A second huge picture of Top Combine (Click for bigger). I’m officially jealous now. Wang Yuexin, Yu Haoming etc didn’t get such nice pictures.
Not only are there like a gazillion boybands in China now, but there are group company MVs! EE Media, the company behind the Supergirls, Superboys and anything affiliated with that, including Top Combine is having its own New Years MV with all of its singers (except Guo Jingming who most recently signed)
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I have realized, after the dozens of Top Combine/H.I.T-5 MVs that popped up out of Youtube (and since most of my site hits come from searching either of those two names), that the reason Chinese entertainment music was not more prolific was not because of the fact that they were Chinese, but rather because there were not boybands. Now that there are some, all the cpop fans have come out of the woodwork including posting Top Combine appearance on Hunan TV’s enormously popular Happy Camp, which apparently set something like a 12 year high for the show.
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