The Winter Melon Tale Explained

Native Name:大冬瓜
Genre:Costume Drama
Starring:Liu Kai Chi
Sunny Chan
Louisa So
Rain Lau
Nancy Wu
Country:Hong Kong
Language:Cantonese
Num Episodes:20
Runtime:45 minutes (approx.)
Network:TVB
The Winter Melon Tale
T:大冬瓜
S:大冬瓜
P:Dà Dōng Guā
J:Daai6 Dung1 Gwaa1

The Winter Melon Tale (Traditional Chinese: 大冬瓜, translated literally into Big Winter Melon) is a TVB costume drama series broadcast in March 2009.

Synopsis

Fan Tung (Liu Kai Chi) is one of the four deities under the Stove God. He has offended the Queen Mother of the West of being ravenous and gets imprisoned for 500 years in the winter melon. By chance Tin Dai Kwai (Sunny Chan) and his wife Chung Bik Yuk (Louisa So) free him from constraint. Tung gets flattened by Kwai's older brother Tin Tai Fu (also played by Liu Kai Chi) accidentally and his spirit enters Fu's body inexplicably while losing all his instincts.

Tung starts living in Kwai's house and getting closer to the family. Yuk finds Tung suspicious and she tries to unmask him by all means. Having failed in his attempt to return to Heaven, Tung becomes reliant on the help of six little deities who assimilated his instincts released from the melon, and since then Tung is aware of the fickleness of human nature. One day, Fu's truant wife Ling Fung (Lau Yuk Chui) suddenly returns. She ruins everything and even causes the death of Kwai. In order to get his life back, Tung illicitly breaks into the netherworld.

Cast

Peasants

Cast Role Description
Liu Kai Chi Tin Dai-Fu
田大富
Tin Dai-Kwai's older brother.
Ling Fung's husband.
Sunny Chan Tin Dai-Kwai
田大貴
Tin Dai-Fu's younger brother.
Chung Bik-Yuk's husband.
Louisa So Chung Bik-Yuk
鍾碧玉
Tin Dai-Kwai's wife.
Rain Lau Ling Fung
凌鳳
Tin Dai-Fu's sister-in-law
Wut Gei
屈機
Doctor
Chung Bik-Wun's husband.
Chung Bik-Wun
鍾碧雲
Wut Gei's wife.
Chung Yiu-Jo and Chung Bik-Yuk's sister.
Chung Yiu-Jo
鍾耀祖
Inventor
Chung Bik-Wun and Chung Bik-Yuk's younger brother.

Gods and Monsters

Cast Role Description
Liu Kai Chi Fan Tung
范統
Stove God's Deity
Yuen Sa Sin-Tsi's husband.
Louisa So Yuen Sa Sin-Tzi
浣紗仙子
Stove God's Deity
Fan Tung's wife.
Nancy Wu Fok Sze-Sze
霍思思
Fox Spirit
Wong Mo Leung-Leung
皇母娘娘
Queen Mother of the West

Viewership ratings

WeekEpisodeAverage PointsPeaking PointsReferences
1March 9–13, 20091 — 52729[1]
2March 16–20, 20096 — 1026[2]
3March 23–26, 200911 — 1426[3]
4March 30 - April 2, 200915 — 1927[4]
April 3, 20092026[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://tvbchinesenews.blogspot.com/2009/03/ratings-report-09032009-15032009.html Week 1 Ratings
  2. http://tvbchinesenews.blogspot.com/2009/03/ratings-report-16032009-22032009.html Week 2 Ratings
  3. http://asianuniverse.net/forums/TVB_Rating_Reports_23_03_2009_29_03_2009_t133676.html Week 3 Ratings
  4. http://tvbchinesenews.blogspot.com/2009/04/ratings-report-30032009-05042009.html Week 4 Ratings
  5. http://tvbchinesenews.blogspot.com/2009/04/ratings-report-30032009-05042009.html Finale Ratings