Translating the song "New Dream of the Butterfly Lovers" (新鴛鴦蝴蝶夢) by Kenny Ho (何家勁) to celebrate the 100th Cantonese songs that I have translated into English to date.

This song is one of many sub songs (片尾曲) for the Taiwan version of Justice Pao (包青天) that was released in 1993. The song was sang in Mandarin by Huang An (黄安) who also composed the original lyrics for the song. It was a very popular and best selling song across many Asian markets.

Kenny Ho who starred in the 1993 Taiwan series as Zhan Zhao (展昭) decided to release a Cantonese version of the song. It was also very popular. He used lyrics composed by Albert Leung (林夕) instead. This is the song that I have translated. But because the 1993 series is 236 episodes long, there's no way I'll download a series of that length to cut a clip from. So apologies to Kenny Ho.

Apart from Kenny Ho's version, Huang An and Loletta Lee (李麗珍) also sang a Cantonese versions of the song using the same theme music but different lyrics under the song title "愛於錯誤年代". In fact there are many versions, in many languages, that uses the same or different lyrics whilst maintaining the same theme music. For example, there is a popular English version from the Singaporean band Tokyo Square was titled "Can't Let Go", but with their own lyrics. Huang An's own English version was titled "When It Comes to Love". Other versions include:
- "鴛鴦蝴蝶夢" by Joice Lim in Hokkien
- "สุดจะหยุดใจ" by Koong Tuangsith Reamchinda in Thai
- "Uyên Ương Hồ Điệp Mộng" by Đan Trường in Vietnamese
- "ផ្ការោយមុនរដូវ" by Nou Sib in Khmer
- "ព្រួយជាមួយចន្ទ" by Khemarak Sereymon also in Khmer
- "Melody Memory" by Lavenia in Indonesian

I decided to cut a clip based on the 1995 version of Justice Pao (新包青天) by ATV that starred Michael Miu (苗僑偉) and Ray Lui (吕良伟) as Zhan Zhao. For those interested, the story is called "Sword of Revenge" (仇之剑) and takes place at episodes 131 to 138 of the ATV series. I loved this story as it was lovely shot, and had an interesting story line that was both tragic and beautiful. Plus it had Michael Miu back performing in a wuxia role after a long absence. I highly recommend it. Other notable cast members included the female leads of Di Ying (狄莺) and Anais Yang (杨宝玮). I really liked the performance of Anais Yang in this series. Jin Chao-chun (金超群) who played Justice Pao, and Fan Hung-hsuan (范鴻軒) who played Gongsun Ce, in this series also acted in these roles in the Taiwan series.

Whilst the clip has the TVB logo, it is an ATV series. It's due to ATV going out of business in 2015. TVB started to acquire rights to ATV series and broadcasting them through the TVB networks.

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