Romance of the Three Kingdoms (TV series)

In 1995, CCTV produced a television adaptation of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It was a 84-part series with 44-minute long episodes.

The whole series took a 1000-strong production group four years to complete, and recruited over 400,000 civilian participants, including divisions of the PLA. Most of the dialogue used were adapted directly from the novel and extensive battle scenes were live-acted. It was CCTV's most expensive television series to date.

Episodes

The series contained 84 episodes spanning the novel.

# Oath of the Peach Garden (桃园三结义)
# Turmoil of the Ten Attendants (十常侍乱政)
# Dong Zhuo Seizes the Capital (董卓霸京师)
# Cao Cao Presents a Sword (孟德献刀)
# Three Heroes Duel Lü Bu (三英战吕布)
# A set of Interlocking Stratagems (连环计)
# The Fengyi Pavilion (凤仪亭)
# Liu Bei Declines to take Xuzhou Thrice (三让徐州)
# Sun Ce building his career in Jiangdong (孙策立业)
# Settling disputes by shooting (辕门射戟)
# Battle of Wancheng (宛城之战)
# Baimen Tower (part 1) (白门楼（上）)
# Baimen Tower (part 2) (白门楼（下）)
# Discussing the heroes of the country when drinking (煮酒论英雄)
# Yuan Shao and Cao Cao Fight against each other (袁曹起兵)
# Guan Yu plighting three conditions with Cao Cao (关羽约三事)
# Hanging up seal and sealing up the treasures (挂印封金)
# Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles (千里走单骑)
# Meeting at Gucheng (古城相会)
# Death of Sun Ce (孙策之死)
# Battle of Guandu (part 1) (官渡之战（上）)
# Battle of Guandu (part 2) (官渡之战（下）)
# Yuan Shao Defeated (大破袁绍)
# Leaping across the Tan River (跃马檀溪)
# Looking for the talented person (刘备求贤)
# Recommending Zhuge Liang (回马荐诸葛)
# Visiting the Thatched Cottage Thrice (三顾茅庐)
# Burning Bowang Po (火烧博望坡)
# Crossing across the Yangtze River with civilians (携民渡江)
# Arguing against Eastern Wu's scholars (舌战群儒)
# Irritating Zhou Yu by wisdom (智激周瑜)
# A failed scheme by Zhou Yu (周瑜空设计)
# The meeting of heroes (群英会)
# Borrowing arrows from Cao Cao (草船借箭)
# The self-torture ruse (苦肉计)
# Pang Tong presenting scheme of Chaining ships (庞统献连环)
# Composing a poem when wielding spear (横槊赋诗)
# Zhuge Liang sacrificing for procuring a wind (诸葛祭风)
# The Burning of the Red Cliffs (火烧赤壁)
# Taking Nanjun by strategy (智取南郡)
# Taking Four Commanderies by Force (力夺四郡)
# Beauty Trap (美人计)
# Ganlu Temple (甘露寺)
# Return to Jingzhou (回荆州)
# Anger Zhou Yu thrice (三气周瑜)
# Zhuge Liang mourns for the dead (卧龙吊孝)
# Cao Cao took to his heels (割须弃袍)
# Zhang Song presents a map (张松献图)
# Liu Bei enters Sichuan (刘备入川)
# Valley of the Fallen Phoenix (凤雏落坡)
# Releasing Yan Yan righteously (义释严颜)
# The capture of West Shu (夺战西川)
# Guan Yu goes to a feast alone but armed (单刀赴会)
# Battle of Hefei (合肥会战)
# Contending for Succession (立嗣之争)
# The Battle of Mount Dingjun (定军山)
# Capturing Hanzhong by clever scheme (巧取汉中)
# Drowning Seven Armies (水淹七军)
# Guan Yu defeated in Maicheng (走麦城)
# Death of Cao Cao (曹操之死)
# Cao Pi usurping state power of Han Dynasty (曹丕篡汉)
# Expedition to Eastern Wu (兴兵伐吴)
# Burning of Shu's camps (火烧连营)
# Settling attacks from five directions (安居平五路)
# Crossing the Lu River (兵渡泸水)
# Asking the way in desperate situation (绝路问津)
#Capturing and releasing Meng Huo seven times (七擒孟获)
# The Northern Expedition (出师北伐)
#Reducing Jiang Wei to submission (收姜维)
#Sima Yi being restored to command (司马复出)
#Empty fort strategy (空城退敌)
#Sima Yi seizing the seal of commander (司马取印)
#Zhuge Liang setting his wits to Sima Yi at Qishan (祁山斗智)
#Zhuge Liang juggling on the beach (诸葛妆神)
#The Six Expeditions to Qishan (六出祁山)
#Extinguishing the fire in Shangfang Valley (火熄上方谷)
#Autumn Winds on the Wuzhang Plains (秋风五丈原)
#Sima Yi seizing military power from Cao Shuang by false illness (诈病赚曹爽)
#Coups happening in the Wu Palace (吴宫干戈)
#Besieged on Tielong Mountain (兵困铁笼山)
#Sima Zhao Commits Regicide (司马昭弑君)
#The ninth North Expedition to Central Plains (九伐中原)
#Deng Ai making surprise advance by sideway to Yinping (偷渡阴平)
#Jin unites the Three Kingdoms (三分归晋)

Cast

Some of the characters were played by multiple actors in different episodes.

* Sun Yanjun as Liu Bei
* Lu Shuming as Guan Yu
* Li Jingfei as Zhang Fei
* Tang Guoqiang as Zhuge Liang
* Zhang Shan, Yang Fan, Hou Yongsheng as Zhao Yun
* An Yaping as Ma Chao
* Guo Jiaqiang, Xia Junyin as Sun Qian
* Zhu Bingqian, Yang Naihuang as Mi Zhu
* Mang Lai, Chen Zhihui, Du Wenlu as Liao Hua
* Xu Di, Wang Luyao as Lady Mi (Liu Bei’s wife)
* Yi Shufen, Guo Shuping as Lady Gan (Liu Bei’s wife)
* Liu Wei, Wang Xiaoying, Wang Shaowen, Wang Xinhai as Wei Yan
* An Ji as Jian Yong
* Kui Heguo as Mi Fang
* Wang Hongtao as Huang Zhong
* Qiao Chen as Lady Huang (Huang Zhong’s wife)
* Jin Shugui as Pang Tong
* Shi Laiqun, Zhang Minfu as Fa Zheng
* Wang Xianhe, Li Ping as Ma Liang
* Liu Runcheng as Zhou Cang
* Chen Bing as Guan Ping
* Li Zhongbi as Yan Yan
* Zhao Zhenping as Liu Feng
* Chen Debao, Zhang Shijun as Chen Shi
* Chi Chonggen as Wang Fu
* Li Tie, Lu Jixian as Liu Shan
* Zhang Zhizhong as Ma Su
* Cui Dai as Wang Ping
* Li Hong as Fei Yi
* Li Jianping as Ma Dai
* Liu Hongkun as Jiang Wan
* Wang Qiang, Zhang Jimin as Li Feng (Li Yan’s son)
* Yuan Lijian as Gao Xiang
* Zhang Tianshu, Fan Zhiqi as Jiang Wei
* Li Wei as Guan Xing
* Li Zhiyi as Deng Zhi
* Qi Wenqiang as Zhang Yi
* Meng Xianli as Yang Yi
* Li Bao’an as Li Fu
* Hong Ximai as Xi Zheng
* Su Chongshan as Zhuge Zhan
* Wang Fengwen as Qiao Zhou
* Chen Xu as Liu Chen
* Bao Guo’an as Cao Cao
* Tang Zhenhuan, Wei Zongwan as Sima Yi
* Pan Yinlai, Lei Tieliu as Sima Shi
* Li Chiyou, Gao Lancun as Sima Zhao
* Wang Guanghui as Cao Rui
* Jiang Yi as Guo Jia
* Gu Lan as Xun Yu
* Xu Shaohua, Zhang Yakun, Wang Weiguo as Zhang Liao
* Ba La Zhu Er as Xiahou Dun
* Wang Jianguo as Xu Chu
* Su De Si Qin as Meng Tan
* Mo Qi as Wang Zhi
* Ye Jinsen as Hu Ban
* Huo Ercha, Ni Ge Mu Tu, Li Dongguo as Xu Huang
* Su De Si Qin as Han Meng
* Zhang Yingwu as Li Dian
* Ma Xingyue, Qin Baolin as Xin Pi
* Dai Jingguo as Cheng Yu
* Zhai Wanchen as Xu Shu
* Xiao Lu, Ma Yusen, Wei Xian as Liu Ye
* Me Yue as Cai Mao
* Mang Lai as Wen Pin
* Yu Jianai as Xun You
* Li Xiaozhou as Cai Zhong
* Li Hua as Cai He
* Yang Junyong as Cao Pi
* Wang Huanan, Xing Guozhou as Zhang He
* Wang Jie as Cao Hong
* Yang Zibin as Han Hao
* Qian Yulin as Xiahou Yuan
* Jiao Yucheng as Xiahou Shang
* Xu Yongliang as Jia Xu
* Xu Deshan as Cao Ren
* Chang Yuping, Sun Qicheng as Guo Huai
* Zhang Nan as Meng Da
* Zheng Qiang as Cao Zhen
* Liu Geng as Zhong You
* Chen Changlong as Qin Liang
* Shi Tiansheng as Xiahou Ba
* Zheng Dapeng as Wang Tao
* Liu Yinglu as Chen Tai
* An Zhiyi as Cao Fang
* Hao Yueguo as Xiahou Xuan
* Yin Huasheng as Zhang Ji
* Han Xinmin as Jia Chong
* Guan Yue as Zhong Hui
* Wang Hongguang as Deng Ai
* Wu Wenqing as Deng Zhong
* Wang Ying as Shao Ti
* Wang Han as Cao Huan
* Zhao Piyu as Qiu Jian
* Jiang Chongxia as Hu Lie
* Qi Jianbo as Hu Yuan
* Wu Xiaodong as Sun Quan
* Pu Cunxin as Sun Ce
* Hong Yuzhou as Zhou Yu
* Cao Li, Song Banggui as Lu Su
* Wu Xiaodong as Sun Jian
* Li Hongtao, Chen Zhihui as Taishi Ci
* Zhou Jiwei as Zhang Zhao
* Wu Guicen, Xu Fuyin as Huang Gai
* Yin Wei, Zhang Ying as Zhou Tai
* Yan Huaili, Chen Zhuanliang as Cheng Pu
* Ren Meng as Cheng Zi
* Zhong Yujie, Wang Zhaogui as Zhuge Jin
* Suo Eryong as Lu Fan
* Han Dong, Zhang Yuhai as Gan Ning
* Hei Shuikuan, Sun Qicheng as Pan Zhang
* Wang Gang as Ling Tong
* Zhang Xiqian as Kan Ze
* Liu Shaochun as Ding Feng
* Zhang Xiaoming as Xu Sheng
* Chu Guoliang as Lu Meng
* Gao Fei as Lu Xun
* Zheng Xu as Shi Zuan
* Chen Hong as Diao Chan
* Li Po as Dong Zhuo
* Zhang Guangbei as Lu Bu
* Yang Fan as Gongsun Zan
* Chen Youwang, Wang Fusheng as Yuan Shu
* Bi Yanjun as Li Ru
* Tan Zongyao as Wang Yun
* Chen Zhihui as Bao Xin
* Rui Lirong as Ding Yuan
* Qin Zhao as Cai Yan
* Yang Zhaoquan as Lu Zhi
* Yan Yansheng as Li Su
* Liu Jianwei as Wu Fu
* Zheng Tianwei as Empress He
* Zhu Feng as Liu Bian (Emperor Shao)
* Wang Changli as Chen Deng
* Xiu Zongdi as Chen Gong
* Niu Chaliang as Chen Gui
* Gao Baobao as Lady Yan (Lu Bu’s wife)
* Guo Jiaqing as Priest Pu Jing
* Hong Yuzhou, Li Qingxiang as Yuan Shao
* Zhang Lianzhong as Tian Feng
* Zhou Wanhong as Chunyu Qiong
* Wang Zhiqiang as Ju Shou
* Wang Xian as Shen Pei
* Shi Xiaoman as Xu You
* Deng Xiaoguang as Yuan Tan
* Wang Tao as Chen Lin
* Su Min as Sima Hui
* Zhao Xiaochuan as Cui Zhouping
* Ma Shuliang as Shi Tao
* Yan Fengqi as Meng Jian
* Tai Renhui as Xu Shu’s mother
* Liang Chi as Liu Cong
* Liu Xiaomei as Lady Cai (Liu Biao’s wife)
* Yin Li as Liu Qi
* Gai Ke as Lady Fan (Zhao Fan’s sister-in-law)
* Xue Wencheng as Bao Long
* Li Baohua as Zhao Fan
* Huang Xiaoli as Han Xuan
* Zhou Zhonghe as Zhang Ren
* Liu Zongren as Liu Gui
* Hu Zhanli as Meng Huo
* Qin Baolin as Dong Tu Na
* Du Wenlu as A Hui Nan
* Li Dongguo as Meng You
* Wang Tiejun as Tian Si
* Han Qing as Sima Yan

oundtrack

The music for the series was composed by Gu Jianfen (谷建芬).

External links

* [http://english.cctv.com/index.shtml CCTV English Site]