On set with Confucius TV series

Chinese philosopher Confucius will have his life popularized on the small screen. Just as Chinese director Hu Mei completed her biopic movie about Confucius, a new TV drama was in the middle of shooting in a Beijing suburb. The location was opened to the press this week.

With a budget of 60-million yuan, the TV drama will chronicle the life of Confucius from that of a poor child, to a widely admired philosopher.

The TV drama has gathered a stellar cast with Taiwan-based actor Zhao Wenxuan playing the ancient sage. This particular sequence sees Zhao playing the adult Confucius engaged in a concise, but abstruse talk with his apprentice Zigong, played by Gallen Law from Hong Kong, and Yanhui, played by Issei Ishida from Japan.

Actors from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea have participated in the shooting of Confucius, whose wise thinking have influenced the Asian population for almost two-thousand years. The actors shares a common problem of understanding each other. Zhao Wenxuan said that he finds it easy to grasp the gist of his fellow actors. While Gallen Law, Issei Ishida and Lee Jung Hyun are determined to spend more time on the texts to grasp the true meaning of Confucius.

Meanwhile, an activity aimed at honoring eminent teachers in the Chinese countryside has been initiated. Zhao Wenxuan has donated two-hundred thousand yuan to the project.