Overview
This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Ching dynasty. The affairs of this family of doctors/pharmacists (which in those days were one and the same) are intimately linked with social upheavals of the time such as the encroachment of Christian missionaries and foreign imperialism as well as conflicts that inevitably emerge in a large upper class family. Comparable in scope and production value to such recent titles as "Downton Abbey", the lives and character of both masters and servants intertwine in plot lines that spans more than a generation.
Cast
- Chen Baoguo as 白景琦
- Jiang Shan as 李香秀
- Tong Ruixin as 白占元
- He Saifei as 杨九红
- Liu Bei as 白佳莉
- Yu Feihong as 吴英玉
- Han Tongsheng as 关静山
- Wang Qian as 苗若珍
- Liu Bin as 白敬业
- Lei Kesheng as 王喜光