To Live to Love

To Live to Love
North American DVD cover
Traditional Chinese	長恨歌
Simplified Chinese	长恨歌
Literal meaning	The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
Hanyu Pinyin	Cháng Hèn Gē
Genre	period drama romantic drama
Based on	The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi
Written by	Jiang Liping Zhao Yaomin
Directed by	Ding Hei
Starring	Maggie Cheung Ho-yee Huang Yi Tse Kwan-ho Wu Hsing-kuo Xu Zheng Chen Lina Gu Yan Jin Meng
Music by	Zhao Lin
Opening theme	"Ruguo Meiyou Ni" (如果没有你) performed by Bai Guang
Ending theme	"Wuxin Dengdai" (无心等待) performed by Janice Yan
Country of origin	China
Original language	Mandarin
No. of episodes	35
Production
Executive producer	Ding Hei
Producer	He Zizhuang
Cinematography	Huang Wei Wang Tianlin
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	Wenhui–Xinmin United Press Group Shanghai Film Group Corporation Hairun Movies & TV Production Eastern Shanghai Culture, Movies & TV Zuo'an Movies & TV Production
Original release
Network	Shanghai Television
Release	March 28, 2006 (2006-03-28)

To Live to Love^[1] is a 2006 Chinese period TV drama series directed by Ding Hei, based on Wang Anyi's 1995 novel The Song of Everlasting Sorrow. The series stars Huang Yi and Maggie Cheung Ho-yee as the protagonist Wang Qiyao in different ages. It also stars Tse Kwan-ho (as Mr. Cheng), Wu Hsing-kuo (as Director Li), Xu Zheng (as Kang Mingxun), and Chen Lina (as Jiang Lili).

Filming began in July 2004 in Soochow University, and moved to Shanghai, where the story is set, in August 2004.^[2] The series was first broadcast on March 28, 2006 on Shanghai Television.^[3]

Episodes 1-14 deal with the years 1947–1950. These episodes correspond to roughly Part I and Part II, Chapter 1 of the novel. Episodes 14–35 deal with the years from 1958 to 1979.