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- Jan 11, 202750% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
A Taste of Life (人间有味) Premieres
- 人间有味 (Ren Jian You Wei, English title A Taste of Life), first titled 收山, began filming in Beijing on 16 December 2025 and wrapped on 11 June 2026[2][5][7]. No air date has been announced; entertainment posts expect late 2026 to early 2027, and Hu Ge and Li Qin promoted it at Hunan TV and Mango TV's advertiser conference on 17 September 2026[1][4]
- It is on CCTV's 2026 drama slate; Baike lists Hunan TV as the first-run channel and Mango TV as the streamer, while entertainment posts say CCTV-8 will show it first with Hunan TV following and Mango TV streaming it exclusively[1][2][4]
- Hu Ge (胡歌) plays Fan Dacheng, the chosen successor at the century-old Beijing restaurant Wan Tang Ju who turns it down to strike out alone, then returns to rescue the failing house with a 'new Chinese cuisine' and fight off investors and chain rivals. Li Qin (李沁) plays Yang Yuzhu, with He Bing (何冰) as master chef Yang Yuejun, Yang Shuo (杨烁) as senior apprentice Feng Bingge, Bai Yufan (白宇帆), Yang Caiyu (杨采钰) and Liu Peiqi (刘佩琦)[2][4][7]
- It adapts Chang Xiaohu (常小琥)'s novella 收山, winner of Shanghai Literature's novella prize, which follows three generations of chefs at Wan Tang Ju from the late 1970s[7]
- Huang Lei (黄磊) is chief director with Liu Dong co-directing, Yu Yonggan (于勇敢) wrote the script, and Tangren Media (唐人影视) produces; it runs 40 episodes of about 45 minutes[1][2][7]
- The production built a courtyard-house set in Beijing and shot in the capital's Changping district[6][7]
- No date has been announced. Hu Ge's CCTV-1 drama Bright Future wrapped on 28 July 2022 and premiered on 7 December 2022[3], so a CCTV slot can come quickly; a June 2026 wrap and the reported late-2026-to-early-2027 window put the premiere around the turn of the year
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- [1]50%sina.cn/a/article/nishrau8181040.htmlsina.cn· Posted Sep 27, 2026· Starts Jan 11, 2027 ✓· 18% of score
Estimated: filming ran from 16 December 2025 to 11 June 2026 and, as of mid-September 2026, no air date has been announced; entertainment posts expect late 2026 to early 2027. This takes the middle of that window, about seven months after the wrap: 11 January 2027. Hu Ge's CCTV-1 drama Bright Future aired only four and a half months after wrapping, so an earlier slot is possible. Re-date once Mango TV, Hunan TV or CCTV announces the date.
- [2]75%人间有味(2026年黄磊执导的群像时代剧)_百度百科wapbaike.baidu.com· Added Sep 27, 2026· 18% of score
The drama's encyclopedia entry: English title A Taste of Life, 40 episodes, the full cast and roles, Tangren Media, Hunan TV and Mango TV, CCTV's 2026 slate, and the filming dates.[1]
- [3]75%县委大院 - 维基百科zh.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 27, 2026· 18% of score
Hu Ge's CCTV-1 drama Bright Future wrapped on 28 July 2022 and premiered on 7 December 2022, showing how fast a CCTV slot can follow a wrap.[1]
- [4]70%《人间有味》什么时候正式播出? - 微博weibo.com· Published Sep 18, 2026· 17% of score
Status post: not yet scheduled, expected on CCTV-8 around the end of 2026 with Hunan TV following and Mango TV streaming; rumours it had already aired are wrong.[1]
- [5]70%杨洋胡歌李昀锐新剧杀青 - 新浪新闻sina.cn· Published Jun 11, 2026· 12% of score
A Weibo[4] post that 人间有味 officially wrapped on 11 June 2026, the same day as two other dramas.
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