The Spirits of Love


The Spirits of Love, also known as Love, is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that aired on Formosa Television in Taiwan from 28 November 2006 to 21 May 2008. It stars Chen Meifeng, Wang Shih-hsien, Fon Cin & Chiang Tsu-ping. The show has five theme songs including Wu Bai & China Blue's 1995 hit "Love You Ten Thousand Years". It aired in Taiwan every weeknight at prime time and had a total of 386 episodes.

Cast

Luos

Lins

Wangs

For Wang Wenqiang, see the Zhangs

Mas

Zhangs

Songs

Lius

Yangs

Masha's family (United Hotel)

Lis

Hong Shuibo's family

Guos

Hongs (World Hotel)

Wus (Former County Council Speaker's family)

Lais

Xies

Tangs

Tang Zhen's family

Dings

Soundtrack

Theme song

Sub theme songs

Local broadcast

The show airs every weeknight at prime time with episodes which have ranged in length from 135 to 150 minutes including commercial advertisements. The producers received funding from the Government Information Office to produce the series in high definition. It concluded on 19 July 2011.

International broadcast

Singapore broadcast

The series was broadcast on weekends from 7pm to 10pm, it became a weekday drama from 7pm to 8pm but due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in Chinese dialects, the show was dubbed into Mandarin when it aired on Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 8, thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin and was the first Taiwan drama to broadcast in Singapore with English subtitles.

Repeat Telecast (2011)

It repeated its run from Monday - Thursday from 10.30 am to 12.30pm with Chinese subtitles and ended its repeat telecast and the drama has taken over from Night Market Life at the 04:00 SST timeslot.

Vietnam broadcast

The show was first broadcast in Vietnamese on Vinh Long Province’s Radio and Television Station, channel 1. The show was broadcast daily at the 5 pm time slot, running from October 23, 2010 to September 23, 2012.

Malaysia broadcast

The drama was broadcast on 8TV in original Hokkien language under the English title The Spirit of Love for two episodes with one hour each from Monday to Friday, at 11:30 MST and 13:00 MST with a 30 minutes break of its Midday Mandarin News at 12:30 MST.