Virtues of Harmony
2001Virtues of Harmony is a long-running sitcom from Hong Kong, lasting 322 episodes with two direct seasons. Produced by Tsui Yu On, the sitcom was a TVB production and aired five days a week from September 17, 2001 to December 28, 2002. The series chronicles the comical events and life of the Kam household, a rich family during a prosperous time in the Ming Dynasty of China. The series was inspired by the 2000 TVB comedy drama Colourful Life. Originally planned to be an 150-episode sitcom, an extra 200 episodes were added due to the sitcom's rating success. After the episode finale, a spin-off sequel, Virtues of Harmony II was released in 2003, as well as a spin-off musical, which starred the same cast.
Seasons & Episode
KWOK KAU denies. KING goes to the Summer Palace with the KIM’s family to celebrate the mid-autumn festival. KWOK KAU orders eunuch LING to stop the KIM’s family going with KING. Consequently, only QUEEN accompanies KING to the Summer Palace. On his way KING saw that some people are bowing to dogs.
FU always shouts at GAY. GAY leaves home. YEK, MEI and LO worry that GAY will commit suicide. They follow her secretly. They are very tired and take rest. All have picked up a bag of money. LIN’s cart overturns and discovers that all money has turned into stones. KING orders LIN to find out the criminal.
Later, KING sends the KIM’s family a bucket. All refuse to accept the bucket and asks HOI TONG to throw it away. PRINCESS arrives and tells them that it is a gold bucket. KING is vexed at no son to succeed his throne. QUEEN tries all medicine to make herself pregnant. However, the KIM’s women makes her fall down on the ground ……
The KIM’s again escape from disaster. KING only punishes them lightly. LO bursts into the forbidden area and makes the place a mess. BROW discovers them and forces her to clean up the place.
KING sees YUI who is playing happily with his son. YUI reminds KING that it might be QUEEN’s problem as they cannot have baby for years. FU is enlightened and claims that she could give some medicine to GAY. KING is glad and orders them to make some powerful formula.
YUI and FU do not succeed in making the soup. They believe that KING will chop their heads off. All worry a lot. LO, MEI and GAY ask BO to teach them the formula of upbringing the chickens. They intend to bribe KING with delicious chickens in case KING blamed their husbands. BO sees that they are good wives and agree to teach them.
QUEEN and KWOK KAU blame PAK and punish her. LO bursts into the Cheung Ki Palace mistakenly and learnt that concubine BO is BO. She is glad to see BO becomes one of KING’s favourite concubines. BO thanks QUEEN for giving her chance to meet KING. The four KIM’s beauties warn BO to be cautious with QUEEN who is a wicked woman.
KWOK KAU checks the progress. CHUEN and KAO propose to use foul mean to have TE. KWOK KAU scolds them who are so shameful. He swears to win TE’s heart. KWOK KAU discovers YUEN and TE who had met each other secretly. Fortunately, KWOK KAU thinks that their relationship is only good sisters. KWOK KAU orders YUEN to arrange a meeting with TE for him.
CHI finds everything tastes very salty, even the standard congee does. She suspects it was due to the drowning when she had absorbed too much seawater into the body. CHI’s body keeps on bleeding sand and water. CHI reckons that the drowning has destroyed her energy system. She decides to cure herself. However, she hurts herself instead and has become terribly swollen.
The next day, SASA visits ‘Ka Yan’ Palace with luxury presents. YUI mentions that the colleagues of Hanlin Department have won the lottery game. Despite the denial of HONG, YUK fails to believe in him. She investigates their bedroom and discovers a bag of money. HONG explains every detail but, no one believes him.
The four beauty wives take the chance to humiliate KWOK KAU as well and they claim that their husbands are loyal and faithful. KWOK KAU is full of grieves and determines to take revenge on them. The four beauty wives are keen to find a suitable wife for KWOK KAU in order to tame him. They discover that PAK is the most appropriate person.
Finally, PAK marries KWOK KAU and her status has risen a lot suddenly. Notwithstanding her status, her arrogant comes back also. The four beauty wives are disappointed that PAK denies the help they offered and turns against them.
Since then, the four beauty wives find SASA is a burden and keep a distance with her deliberately. SASA fails to recognize their intention and follows them closely. Until one day, SASA is sick; the four beauty wives feel a great relief. Unfortunately, they cheer up too early because SASA overhears their conversation and is heartbroken.
Family KIM apologizes for casting out SASA and obtains her forgiveness. SASA finds SIN for deviation and realizes that she was the most ugly woman on earth in the past. When SIN excuses during the explanation, SASA takes his holy goods. Nevertheless, SIN by chance sees SASA baths at the river. Since then, SIN loses his superstitious power in deviation.
Despite they try to challenge ex-QUEEN, they are not smart enough. One day, TONG loses a kite and it flies into the palace. The ex-QUEEN meets KING again when she helps TONG to fetch the kite. KING invites ex-QUEEN to visit the palace with PRINCESS together and they are astonished to learn the past from ex-QUEEN. Therefore, ex-QUEEN explains that KING told her previously.
Virtues of Harmony is a long-running sitcom from Hong Kong, lasting 322 episodes with two direct seasons. Produced by Tsui Yu On, the sitcom was a TVB production and aired five days a week from September 17, 2001 to December 28, 2002. The series chronicles the comical events and life of the Kam household, a rich family during a prosperous time in the Ming Dynasty of China. The series was inspired by the 2000 TVB comedy drama Colourful Life. Originally planned to be an 150-episode sitcom, an extra 200 episodes were added due to the sitcom's rating success. After the episode finale, a spin-off sequel, Virtues of Harmony II was released in 2003, as well as a spin-off musical, which starred the same cast.