New Journey to the West (1971)布袋戲 新西遊記
Director: Huang Junxiong
Genre: N/A
Country/Region of Manufacture: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Number of Seasons: 1
Episodes: 20
Single Episode length: 50 minutes
Adaptation: Retelling
Summary:
In 1962, Taiwan’s first TV station “Taiwan Television Company” started broadcasting. On November 8 of the same year, Li Tianlu “Yi Wanran” was invited to perform the traditional puppet show “Three Kingdoms” with a Hokkien pronunciation on TV. This was the first time that Taiwan TV broadcast a puppet show. , but the ratings were not high, and it was canceled after only 25 episodes (each episode was 50 minutes). The person who really made the puppet show shine on the TV screen was Huang Junxiong.
Huang Junxiong’s first puppet show on Taiwan TV was “Yunzhou Da Ruxia”, which was broadcast on March 2, 1970, with a total of 114 episodes. In addition, Huang Junxiong also performed puppet plays such as “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “New Journey to the West”, “The Legend of Three Heroes of Liuhe”, “The Great Confucian Hero”, “New Legend of Jigong” (Mandarin dubbing), “The Legend of the Five Tigers of the Tang Dynasty”, etc. The last one “The Legend of the Four Heroes of Yunzhou” ran from February 13 to June 16, 1974. At this point, Huang Junxiong’s puppet show performance on Taiwan TV has temporarily come to an end, with a total of 8 performances and a total of 961 episodes, including 440 episodes of the Shi Yanwen series and Liuhe series 346 episodes.
At this time, because some plots of the puppet show were denounced as strange and confusing, and the pronunciation of the Hokkien language conflicted with the government’s Mandarin policy, the Information Bureau ordered the complete suspension of the TV puppet show in 1974, and it was not until 1982 that the ban was conditionally lifted; At that time, the TV station and the Information Bureau agreed that puppet shows could be broadcast during the noon period of TV programs, but the three TV stations had to rotate the first Mandarin and the second Hokkien drama during this period.
The puppet show could not be broadcast on the two TV stations at the same time, so the three TV stations only It can broadcast puppet shows in turn, that is, each TV station can broadcast puppet shows for four months a year, and each puppet show can have a maximum of 30 episodes. Huang Junxiong’s first puppet show after his comeback was the Taiwanese puppet show “Five Tiger Generals of the Tang Dynasty” broadcast on Taiwan TV. It started broadcasting at noon on June 14, 1982, with each episode lasting 30 minutes, a total of 30 episodes. Later, it was broadcast by “Five Tiger Generals of the Tang Dynasty”. “The Legend of Three Heroes of Liuhe” took over; during this period, Huang Junxiong’s Hokkien puppet show on Taiwan TV lasted until May 13, 1988. In the past 6 years, there were a total of 23 performances and a total of 668 episodes.
In addition, Huang Junxiong also performed two other Mandarin puppet shows on Taiwan TV: “The Monkey King” and “Burning the Red Lotus Temple”; at the same time, he also performed “Two Heroes of Heaven” on China Television with his sons Huang Qianghua and Huang Wenze. , “Feng Sword Spring and Autumn” and “The Lion Ranger” and other Hokkien puppet shows. In the 1990s, the people who led the puppet show on television were none other than Huang Qianghua and Huang Wenze’s Pili puppet show!
The first Mandarin puppet show in the history of Taiwanese television, “Monkey King, the Monkey King” was produced by Huang Junxiong. It was broadcast on Taiwan TV from April 16, 1983 to October 8 of the same year, with each episode lasting 30 minutes, for a total of 25 episodes. The theme song “Sun Wukong” is a cover of “My Lady and I” (Girl and Me) sung by Japanese male singer Yukio Hashi in 1965. In fact, this song had already been rewritten by Huang Junxiong in 1971 and used as a Taiwan TV program. The theme song of the Hokkien puppet show “New Journey to the West”, the singer is Li Zhuhui.
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