Duke of Mount Deer 2000

The Duke of Mount Deer 2000 (Traditional Chinese: 鹿鼎記 / 小寶與康熙; Simplified Chinese: 鹿鼎记 / 小宝与康熙; pinyin: Lù Dǐng Jì / xiǎo bǎo yǔ kāng xī) is a Taiwanese and Hong Kong TVB co-production released in 2000, adapted from novel The Deer and the Cauldron (Chinese: 鹿鼎記; literal translation: The Deer and the Cauldron) by notable Hong Kong fiction author Louis Cha (pen name: Jinyong/金庸). Another translated name of the story is The Duke of Mount Deer. First broadcasted on 2000 in Hong Kong which was followed by subsequent broadcasts in other Asian countries. This production is a more recent, and somewhat more loose adaptation of Jin Yong's last and most distinctive Wuxia novel "The Deer and the Cauldron". The story is centred around an uneducated street urchin Wei Xiao Bao, who was born and raised in a brothel by his mother. Through a series of misdaventures, he managed to make his way from the southern playground of Yangzhou to Beijing, the seat of Manchurian imperial power, and bumbling... full article at wikipedia