Sunny Piggy

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Sunny Piggy
Sunnypiggy.jpg
Also known asThe Sunshine Pigsy [1]
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin Chūn Guāng Càn Làn Zhū Bājiè
Jyutping Ceon1 Gwong1 Caan3 Laan6 Zyu1 Baat3-Gaai3
Written byLi Tianze
Directed byMeng Ji
Ye Chongming
Starring Xu Zheng
Tao Hong
Sun Xing
Chen Hong
Yvonne Yung
Lee Li-chun
Opening theme"Hao Chun Guang" (好春光) performed by Wu Tong
Ending theme"Juan Jie Pan" (卷睫盼) performed by Chen Lin and Wu Tong
Country of originChina
Original languageMandarin
No. of episodes38
Production
ProducersFan Xiaotian
Ma Zhongjun

Sunny Piggy is a 2000 Chinese romantic fantasy comedy-drama television series. It stars Xu Zheng as Zhu Bajie, a foolish pig (and farting machine) who wanted to become human, and Tao Hong as a kindhearted dragon princess who loved him unconditionally until her death. Most characters, including Zhu Bajie, are taken from the 16th-century novel Journey to the West and Chinese mythology.

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The series was filmed in 1999 jointly by Jiangsu Television, Zhejiang Television, Sichuan Television and Dragon Television, in conjunction with Suzhou Southern Pai Culture Media, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Corporation, and Sky Creation. Copyrights were sold to 13 national television stations, which began broadcasting it almost simultaneously in January 2000.

It achieved ratings over 30% in several provinces, prompting over 20 smaller local stations to show its reruns. [2] Xu Zheng, virtually unknown before the series, rode its popularity to stardom. He and Tao Hong became close friends, and eventually married in 2002. [3]

The show has since spawned several sequels and remakes.

Cast

International broadcast

Sequels and remakes

Producer Fan Xiaotian, who became known as the Piggy Godfather, has since produced 4 live-action TV series and a number of animation TV series derived from the series. These include:

However, none of them was nearly as popular or well-received as the original.

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  2. 《春光灿烂猪八戒》攻擂《西游记》
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