ALEXANDRIA

I felt so sorry for the main cast - Zhou Ying. (if this is a real story) What a sad life as a women on those day or that erra. Grounded by so many traditional rules and what a life to goes through ... just sad ...

You know, when I was young and as a Chinese, my grand parents used to told me or rather had mentioned about the so called "Dragon Boat festival" or better know as the correct name of the festival as "DuanWu Festival" / "ZhongXiao Festival". Because during this Chinese ancient festival, there's a special food / delicacy called as the Meat Dumpling or in Chinese pronunciation as "Zong Zi". Basically, it's a dumpling made of marinated glutinous rice with Chinese souce and pork meat then it's wrap with bamboo leaves and steam to cook. It's very delicious and filling. Then the story was told why this dumplings were made or created. It was legend that a minister and his whole life's sacrifices for his empire / country and his emperor had just wasted and failure. At the end, he committed suicide by jumping into the river. But the civilians known him to be a kind minister and a loyal to his country. So they made or create this ZongZi ( meat dumpling ) and threw into the river where this minister committed suicide, hopefully the fishes eats these dumplings than the dead minister's corpse. (Ok, I know how this sounds ), so I was kid back then, inside my mind I was wondering how foolish or rather an idiot this minister was. ( certainly I kept my mouth shut and my thoughts too ). Until I accidentally or rather got cheated by it's cover or title to watched this drama Song Of Phoenix, Oh My ... that's the idiot's story ! ( LOL !) So now do you understand why this story makes me sleepy each time I watched it ? I really didn't expect some dumb producer will actually made this drama ... that's why half way through, I had already suspect could this be that idiotic legend that I was been told.

I feel kinda gross and it gives me that "Goosebumps" each time I see the main cast - Lu Han. He's so sissy ???? and softy ... And worst, with a "beautiful" face like a 5 year old sweet boy, but indeed is a grown guy ... eee

Since my last comment was on episode 22nd, I can't believe I actually struggled till now episode 54th. I think I'm giving up and stopping at here. I had never felt this regret about a show / story. Overall, it's a pile of craps and wasting time. Such a BS story line, really regretted bought this set of BS show. I think it's totally not my type of genres...Only 2 credits honestly I think, the songs are good, and the poems are excellent ( if you can read & understand traditional Mandarin ). The rest, real waste of time.

Comparing these 2 main actors in these 2 stories - ( this Song Of Phoenix & The General And I ), Ma Ke's look is more to "pretty guy" type, wherelse Wallace Chung is more to "man-ly" or so called Macho type. Hard to compare and comment, each of them belongs to different types of attraction.

yes, I agreed ... So slow motion and kinda bland right ?

Personally, I think this story is kinda boring & slow. It's like too plain, not much surprises and it's easy to know what's gonna happen next and who's do what or going to do ...etc. I'd never used this long to watch a drama, can't believe almost going to be a month soon and I just STILL at episode 22nd. I don't know why each time the story play on, it made me kinda sleepy ... Maybe part of the reason is this story it involves the Chu and Qin empire, which I had already watched The Legend Of Miyue. This story is part about it except the role is act by different peoples and also some alterations of the original story. Ma Ke is a good actor but in this story, I think he plays a really boring role ... let's see further what's next. And before I start this story, actually, I just completed The General And I. Comparing these both stories, thou the contains supposed involving romance and politics, but The General And I that story I find it 10x better than this. There's also some other's comments on how lousy Angelababy acted the role as Bai Ping Ting. But I think it's just okay, not that bad, but at least she delivers the role and Bai Ping Ting's character supposed to be. Certainly, the main attraction is still on Wallace Chung as Chu Bei Jie and his outstanding performance as the Jing empire's general. Besides, the story also contains a lots of surprises which personally, I also didn't expect or guess. The story line also from the start till the end was straight forward and exciting with very rich emotions. This Song Of Phoenix I don't know how to describe, overall since episode 1 till now 22nd, I guess it just like my bed time story ...

HMM... NO COMMENTS ....

THANKS FOR YA SUGGESTION. NO OFFENSE. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT'S JUST ALPHABETS CAN BE SO SENSITIVE & MISLEADING TO PEOPLE. I THOUGHT IT'S JUST INDIVIDUAL'S CHOICE OF WRITING PREFERENCE. AS LONG AS ALL THE WRITING DID NOT CONTAINS LIKE "!" OR ANY VULGAR WORDS, THEN IT MEANS JUST PLAINLY NO SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS.

OH, AND PARDON ME MY "TEXT STYLING", I'M USED TO USING CAP ALPHABETS, I DON'T MEAN TO BE RUDE AS LIKE HESSA ON THE TOP COLUMN COMMENTED, SHE SAID MY WAY OF TEXT WRITING "HURTS HER EYES".

PERHAPS YOU CAN TRY : drama3s.com, THE LAST I VIEWED WAS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. IF NOT, OTHER ALTERNATIVE CHOICE IS TO BUY IT FROM VIDEO SHOP. ALL THE DRAMAS I'D WATCHED I DON'T WATCH THROUGH ONLINE, I BOUGHT THE WHOLE DVD SET, PARTLY I'M A COLLECTOR OF CHINESE DRAMA, PARTLY I THINK I MAY WANT TO RE-WATCH AGAIN, SO I RATHER OWNS IT.

THEN SORRY ABOUT THAT .... PERHAPS IT'S MY HABIT OF TEXT WRITING, USED TO IT USING CAP ALPHABETS.

BUT IT'S A TRUE HISTORY RECORDS OF EMPEROR DAIZONG ( 726 - 779 ). YOU CAN GOOGLE UP "EMPERORS OF TANG DYNASTY" OR "EMPEROR DAIZONG OF TANG" FOR MORE DETAILS, AND IN REAL HISTORY, THERE IS RECORDINGS ABOUT HIS SPOUSE : CONSORT SHEN, CONSORT CUI, CONSORT DUGU.

JUST COMPLETED PART 2's TOTAL 32 EPISODES. IT'S VERY SUBJECTIVE ON INDIVIDUALS VIEWING POINT OF OPINION. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND, FOR THOSE THAT IF YOU LIKE THIS PART 1's STORY, AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW THIS STORY ENDED, THEN PERHAPS YOU SHOULD CONTINUE ONTO PART 2. FOR THOSE IF YOU FEEL THIS PART 1's STORY IS JUST A "SO SO ONLY", THEN PERHAPS NOT A NECESSARY TO WASTE TIME ON PART 2. ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT PART 2 IS THAT, IT'S A LITTLE "LESS PERFORMANCE" COMPARED TO THIS PART 1, BUT IT HAS MORE OR LESS A CLEAR CONCLUSION ON THIS WHOLE STORY. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, I'D SUMMITED MY REVIEWS OPINION ON PART 2.

I LOVED CHINESE HISTORY. AND I THINK CHINA IS VERY RICH IN HISTORY OF SO MANY DYNASTIES FOR OVER 5,000 YEARS. TANG DYNASTY WAS ONE OF THE MOST ESTABLISHED EMPIRE BACK THEN BESIDES QIN DYNASTY. THE OTHER OF DYNASTIES SUSTAINED FOR JUST SHORT DURATIONS.

AND ONE MORE NOTE, THIS GLORY OF TANG DYNASTY IS PART OF THE STORY OF THE LEGEND OF YANG GUIFEI OR BETTER KNOWN AS LEGEND OF LADY YANG. IF YOU HAD WATCHED THAT STORY LEGEND OF YANG GUIFEI, THEN IN THIS DRAMA IS PART OF THE PERSONALITIES INVOLVED, ESPECIALLY THIS MADAM KOREA OR HAN GUO FU REN, IS THE SISTER OF THE IMPERIAL CONCUBINE OR BETTER CALL AS YANG GUIFEI AND PRIME MINISTER YANG IS THE OLDER BROTHER. PERSONALLY, IN THAT STORY OF LEGEND OF YANG GUIFEI, BEFORE WATCHED THE STORY, I DID HEARD ABOUT SOME PART OF HER LEGEND, SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IMPERIAL CONCUBINE. BUT IN REALITY, AFTER WATCHED & KNOWN HER STORY WITH SOME GOOGLING AROUND ABOUT THE REAL HISTORY, I THINK THIS LADY YANG / YANG GUIFEI / IMPERIAL CONCUBINE YANG IS A REAL BITCH OF THAT DYNASTY AND WHAT A SHAME ON THE SURNAME OF THE YANG DESCENDENT FAMILY AT THEN. NO WONDER AT ALMOST THE END OF HER STORY, IT SOME SORT CONCLUDED THAT THE PEOPLE BACK THEN HATED HER AND WANTED THE EMPEROR SENTENCE HER TO DEATH. AND PRIME MINISTER YANG IS IN TRUTH HISTORY A REAL TREASON OF TANG DYNASTY. IF YOU HAD WATCHED THAT STORY, YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I MEAN. THAT'S WHY IN THIS GLORY OF TANG DYNASTY'S STORY, IT SHOWS MORE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT WHAT THE YANG DESCENDENT FAMILY BACK THEN HAD DONE. IT WAS A REAL SHAME !! IF WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH, CAN ALWAYS GOOGLE IN THE HISTORY LINK ABOUT IT.

ANOTHER THING, I FIND THIS PRIME MINISTER YANG, FROM PART 1 TILL NOW, HIS ACT KINDDA HILARIOUS OR FUNNY, AS HE ALWAYS SHOWS HIS ROW OF "UGLY TEETH" ESPECIALLY WHEN HE IS CAUGHT IN A DIFFICULT ANSWERING SITUATIONS. I WONDER, WHY HE ALWAYS HAVE TO SHOW OUT HIS ROW OF UGLY TEETH LIKE AS SEEM HE IS ON A TOOTHPASTE ADVERTISEMENTS ? CAN'T HE JUST CLOSE UP HIS TEETH OR DIDN'T THE FILM DIRECTOR TOLD HIM TO CLOSE UP ?? HAVE YOU PEOPLE NOTICE THIS ?

IT IS A GOOD SHOW. I JUST STARTED, NOW JUST ON EPISODE 20th. QUITE GOOD STORY LINE. A LONG WAY TO GO SOME MORE, PART 1 TOTAL 60 EPISODES, PART 2 ANOTHER 30 EPISODES TO CONCLUSION. CONSIDER ONE OF THE LONGEST DRAMA IN TOTAL OF 90 EPISODES. WORTH A WATCH. VERY COMPETITIVE TO LEGEND OF MIYUE.