COLLECTION · Series · 2001

风流才子纪晓岚

Original title

In the thirty-fifth year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, General Zhaohui received imperial orders to lead a hundred thousand troops in a life-or-death battle against Huojizhan, the chieftain-king of the Muslim tribes of the Southern Tianshan region. The war had its origins in Huojizhan's beautiful wife, the "Fragrant Concubine," naturally endowed with peerless beauty and a body that exuded fragrance. Ji Xiaolan, a native of Xian County in Hejian Prefecture, was born with extraordinary gifts but a proud and aloof temperament. At this moment, he was idly seated in a tavern when he heard soldiers of the western campaign recounting their experiences in the Tianshan region and the legends of the Fragrant Concubine. He could not resist composing a ci poem, setting it to music for others to sing, and before long, this song found its way into the Forbidden City...