| Alt Name: | The Sunshine Pigsy[1]
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| Starring: | Xu Zheng Tao Hong Sun Xing Chen Hong Yvonne Yung Lee Li-chun | ||||||||||
| Director: | Meng Ji Ye Chongming | ||||||||||
| Opentheme: | "Hao Chun Guang" (好春光) performed by Wu Tong | ||||||||||
| Endtheme: | "Juan Jie Pan" (卷睫盼) performed by Chen Lin and Wu Tong | ||||||||||
| Num Episodes: | 38 | ||||||||||
| Country: | China | ||||||||||
| Language: | Mandarin | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Fan 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.
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.
China – Beijing Television, Tianjin Television, Shanghai Television, Jiangsu Television, Guangdong Television, Fujian Television, Sichuan Television, Anhui Television, Shanxi Television, Hebei Television, Nei Mongol Television etc. — January/February 2000
Hong Kong - Asia Television (ATV Home) — May 2001Producer 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.