喬家大院

喬家大院

《喬家大院》是一部中國大陸電視劇，2005年3月3日開拍，2006年2月13日在中國中央電視台首播，共45集，此後並在台灣、韓國播映。此劇劇情背景是清朝晚期的咸豐至光緒年間，山西祁縣的晉商家族喬家的故事。
2006年8月29日在韓國首爾，由韓國廣播協會主辦之第一屆首爾電視劇盛典中，該劇獲長篇劇組別的最佳作品獎。

This is a very long series of show that I have just recently finished watching. It is a 45 series long show, and I only watches when, on occasion when I cannot get a seat in the train when I go to or return from work.

This show, 喬家大院 is a very long story about love, affection, and mostly business and the strategy. The first few eposide, speaks about how the qi jia have started to fallen, where they incurred a big debt, and how the second owner is called back from Beijing to back home, and to settle all the problem. With huge amount of debts owed, and the investors are asking everyday at the door for their money back.

喬致庸, the second master of the house, have to be the owner, and break the promise with his childhood friend, 江雪瑛. This is because they have stood in front of a Buddha, and promise to marry each other. But it was later not to be, because his sister in law, who is like his mum, promised his marriage to another girl from a rich family, so they can get money from the girl family, and help to save the family business.

喬致庸was later became like a zombie, and misses his childhood friend so much. And his wife, tried ways to win his heart. And in the end, she did win his heart, and they work together to get the family business back.

Meanwhile, 江雪瑛 when she hears about this, she become determine to marry into the 何家 because her family also ran into debt. She is at first, unwilling to the marriage, because the何家 is a family running opium shop, and the young master was so addicted to the opium, he developed the lung disease, and was at the dying stage. When 喬致庸 learns about it, He ran to 江雪瑛 and tell her not to marry him. But she refuses to listen to it, and marry into the 何家. True enough, few months later, the young master die, and She became a widow. The old master later died too, and she inherit all of the 何家 fortune, which is a mountain of silvers. When she sees it, her heart was so broken, her mind become a zombie. She keeps on blaming that it was 喬致庸 who made her into the state where she is now. From there, She sever ties with her family by speaking about the trader's term and condition.

Meanwhile, 喬致庸 was trying to regain back control of the business and the investor’s confidence, he tries many ways to get money. He team up with 孙茂才 to come up with strategy. Later, they discovered a very old map of an ancient trader who have traveled the whole of china, and recorded the route he took. It have all the route of the merchant supplies, and some were medicine, tea, silk. 喬致庸 sees that the path of the tea have been broken because of 太平军 war. 太平军 were people who are not happy with the current emperor and strive to overthrow the emperor. Seeing that because eof the war, the path of many trader’s route were broken. And 喬致庸 sees it as an opportunity to open up the path again, and bring the tea back.

喬致庸 have engaged many warriors, who are faithful. One of them, was a bandit 劉黑七, but this bandit speaks of loyalty and promises. 劉黑七 made use of 喬致庸 ‘s expenditure as a way to join the 太平军. He made it, and when 喬致庸 found out that he is being made us of, he becomes very very sad, because he thought that the warrior who he treasure so much, is very skillful, and he is determined to get him back to the right path. But sadly, it was rejected, and 劉黑七 became the leader of the 太平军.

喬致庸 later resume his expenditure, and goes to a mountain, and become sworn brother with a landlord, and buy all his tea. leaving his trusted man 鐵信石, he goes to the next destination, Mongolia, and exchange the tea, with some of the magnolia merchandise. From there, he proceed to another capital, and found out the wonderful use of a remittance in China. In that place, the shop come up with an idea of coding a paper to become a trusted item, to exchange for cash in another capital. With this, the business world do not need to carry huge amount of silvers around, and meet up with bandit.

When 喬致庸 find this system so useful, he now not only wants to fulfill the dream of 货通天下，he also wants to fufill the dream of 汇通天下. When 孙茂才 knows about his idea, he strongly object to it. This is because this is a job only assigned by the emperor himself, and he will draw his attention to 喬致庸 if he became too rich.

喬致庸 was so determined, he go with the idea. In the process, he made many enemies, and when 江雪瑛 knows about one of his weakness regarding 劉黑七 and 喬致庸, she scheme on it, and report to the emperor. The emperor who is also jealous about 喬致庸, grab the chance of chaining him up, and keep him in the imperial prison. 喬致庸 faces all the tortures and hardship, but he insist he is not a part of the 太平军.

Meanwhile, the managers of the 大德通 gather together and think of ways to get 喬致庸 out of the imperial prison.

When got him out, 喬致庸 was very furious when he knows that his business shops have to be mortgage in order to get him out. 喬致庸 later sees failure in his business, because he have to pay installment to the emperor every year to settle the debt that he owned to the emperor through an agreement of paying 八百万两银子.

Some time later, 喬致庸 found out that 孙茂才 was in love with 大奶奶, and knows that 孙茂才 was interested into the 喬家企业，孙茂才 also want to make use of 大奶奶, in order to get the control of 喬家企业. 喬致庸 get him together and later, found out it is the truth, he together with some of managers, throw him out of the 喬家.

After few years later, the war was over, but the emperor is still interested in his money, and continue to get money from him through the imperial edict. 喬致庸 became sick, and later, was confined to bed, and cannot walk around like he used to. Later, the war between the emperor and the foreign country begins, the emperor was left with no choice of leaving Beijing. They stopped by 喬致庸 house, and through some mental fight, 老佛爷 lifted up the restriction, and allows 喬致庸 to continue his dream of 汇通天下. After that, the business of 大德通 begin to pick up, and earn a lot of profit, so huge, that when he became old, he looks into the vault, saw all his fortunes. He became very angry with it, because he have earned so much, yet, the silvers and gold are staying motionless in his vault.

He later grow old, and became so rich, that all he have to do is to stay at home, and let his business grow. Sometime, he have dreams, and then speaks about some meaning to it, The ending seems quite fast, because it ends within two episode. At nearly the end, 江雪瑛 who also grew old, came to visit 喬致庸. Although 喬致庸 was framed last time in Beijing, and landed him in the imperial prison, he forgives her, and later died. The ending is so sad, because all throughout the story, 江雪瑛, who even though inherited a lot of silver, was never happy. She is alone, and her only close friend, 翠儿joined the 齐家 because she have fallen in love with 长栓, one of the喬家 member. 江雪瑛 was at that time, very heartbroken, because she have not only loses喬致庸, sever ties with her parents, and now she loses her only friend. She cries, and was left alone in a very big house. She do continue with her business, but it was never said what the business is doing. When she returns, she was alone, and only speak a few words to him before going off. And after she left, 喬致庸 was so relieved that what he wanted to said to 江雪瑛 was spoken, he died in peace.

This show is throughout sad, and exciting, because it depict of how business world turn about, because of the traders strategy. They sometime become friends, but back, they are plotting schemes, to overthrow business, and wanted to buy the other person’s business. It speaks of the real family, but maybe because eI have not gone through with the china history bah,

• 喬致庸－陳建斌飾
• 陸玉菡─蔣勤勤飾
• 江雪瑛─馬伊琍飾
• 孫茂才─倪大宏飾
• 陸大可─雷恪生飾
• 鐵信石─宋凱飾
• 長栓─馬勇飾
• 馬荀─張洪睿飾
• 劉黑七─朱德承飾
• 翠兒─龔潔飾
• 明珠─高斯飾
• 杏兒─蔡昕窈飾
• 大嫂─娟子飾