''The Spirits of Love'' (), also known as ''Love'', is a

Taiwanese Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien () (; Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-uân-uē''), also known as Taigi/Taigu (; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú''), Taiwanese, Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by about 70% ...

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that aired on

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from 21 November 2006 to 31 May 2010. It stars

Chen Meifeng Chen Mei-feng () is a Taiwanese actress. She was the female lead in ''The Spirits of Love'' and ''Night Market Life''. References External links

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. The show has five theme songs including Wu Bai & China Blue's 1995 hit "Love You Ten Thousand Years" (愛你一萬年). It aired in Taiwan every weeknight at

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(20:00) and had a total of 386 episodes.

Cast

Luos

Lins

Wangs

For Wang Wenqiang, see the Zhangs

Mas

Zhangs

Songs

Lius

Yangs

Masha's family (United Hotel)

Lis

Hong Shuibo's family

Guos

Hongs (World Hotel)

Wus (Former County Council Speaker's family)

Lais

Xies

Tangs

Tang Zhen's family

Dings

Soundtrack

Theme song

Sub theme songs

International broadcast

Singapore broadcast

The show was originally broadcast on November 9, 2008, on Channel 8, with the show having a timeslot of 7pm on the weekends, with it being dubbed in Mandarin Chinese, as it is prohibited in Singapore to broadcast in Chinese dialects. After the weekday 7pm drama Your Hand In Mine concluded its broadcast on July 16, 2010, Love's timeslot was extended to the weekdays, making it a daily series. The timeslot was pushed back to only weekdays after

Night Market Life ''Night Market Life'' () is a Taiwanese Hokkien television drama that began airing on Formosa Television in Taiwan on 22 December 2009. This is also known as the first HD drama ever broadcast on Formosa Television. It stars Chen Meifeng, Morning ...

started broadcasting on February 27, 2011. Love concluded its run on Channel 8 on October 21, 2011, and was replaced with

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Repeat Telecast (2012)

It repeated its run from Monday - Thursday from 10.30 am to 12.30pm (two episodes per day), starting on November 8, 2012, and ended its repeat telecast on September 30, 2014.

Vietnam broadcast

The show was first broadcast in Vietnamese on Vinh Long Province’s Radio and Television Station, channel 1 ( THVL1). The show was broadcast every weekday at the 5 pm time slot, running from October 23, 2010, to September 23, 2012.

Malaysia broadcast

The drama was broadcast on

Astro Hua Hee Dai Astro Hua Hee Dai () is a 24-hour in-house Hokkien-generic TV channel in Malaysia. It is the fourth in-house Chinese channel provided by pay TV provider, Astro, after Astro Wah Lai Toi, Astro AEC and Astro Shuang Xing, and was launched on 13 O ...

in the show's original

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language on Weekdays 4:30pm to 5:30pm.

References

External links

Program webpage
at Formosa Television website
Program cast and synopsis
at Mediacorp xinmsn website {{DEFAULTSORT:Spirit of Love 2004 Taiwanese television series debuts 2006 Taiwanese television series endings Formosa Television original programming Taiwanese drama television series Television shows set in Taiwan Hokkien-language television shows