Portrait of Home is a Chinese language drama serial which was filmed for and broadcast on Singapore's Mediacorp TV Channel 8 in 2005. It stars Louise Lee, Xiang Yun, Adrian Pang, Pierre Png and Felicia Chin as the casts of the series. It is shown on weekdays at 7pm. The show has 100 episodes telecast in two segments, the first part with 60 episodes and the second part with 40 episodes.

Plot

The fishball factory Tong Xin Yuan is a successful local business, with thriving sales in both Singapore and neighbouring foreign countries. But behind the company lies a dark mystery. The beautiful factory blue-collar worker who eventually became the Lady Boss of Tong Xin Yuan named Li Tian (Louise Lee), married the founder of Tong Xin Yuan named Zhou Dong (Chen Shucheng) many years ago. They had three sons – Zhou Dadi (Adrian Pang), Zhou Dashan (Yao Wenlong) and Zhou Daqiu (Cavin Soh). Zhou Dong then disappeared after a kidnap attempt went awry; and not even his body was found. Without the master Zhou Dong around, another faithful factory blue-collar worker who eventually became the Boss, white-collar worker and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan named Lin Shitou (Richard Low) took up the task of overlooking the fishball factory. 3 years later, Shitou married Li Tian and had another 3 sons – Lin Dahai (Terence Cao), Lin Dayang (Pierre Png) and Lin Dajiang (Zhang Yaodong). From then on, rumours abound that Shitou killed Zhou Dong and usurped both his factory and Li Tian. Tong Xin Yuan grew tremendously under Li Tian and Lin Shitou’s management, and all 6 sons receive the same treatment. Li Tian, in an effort to let her children remain close by her side for as long as possible, as well as to encourage them to love and support each other, built a block of apartments with 7 units inside. She lives in one of the units with her husband Lin Shitou, with the remaining 6 units planned for her 6 sons. They may move into their unit only after marriage, and if they should choose not to move in, they will automatically forfeit all rights to the unit. Li Tian has even set a family regulation that no matter how busy each family member is, everyone has to turn up at her unit for a meal at least once a week. 6 half-brothers, each with their own peculiarities, often rub each other the wrong way. All of them work at the fishball factory with the exception of Dahai and Dajiang, where the former has been extremely busy doing scriptwriting and the latter is still studying in university. Amongst the 6 sons, Dadi has the strangest temperament and is still single. He is nicknamed the Mad Man, and is secretly in love with the fishball factory blue-collar worker and later, supervisor, Manager and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan named Zhang Xiu Hua (Xiang Yun) who is a few years older than he is. Xiu Hua is also the housekeeper of Zhou Jia Yuan who looks after Li Tian, Lin Shitou and all the 6 half-brothers whilst at home. Unaware of his feelings, Li Tian and Xiu Hua select a Vietnamese bride Ruan Mianmian (Jesseca Liu) for Dadi, putting Dadi in an awkward position. Dashan had a sad past in his youth, falling into despair after witnessing the death of his beloved girlfriend. He fell into bad company and started taking drugs. Upon release from the drug rehabilitation centre, he meets cunning Su Haitang (Le Yao), whom is from Shanghai, China and also bears a great resemblance to his deceased girlfriend named Cat (also portrayed by Le Yao). He would have fallen into Haitang’s trap if not for the appearance of the kind-hearted Yang Qin (Ta Na), whom is also Dashan's new girlfriend later on in Season 2 and also from Shanghai, China as well. He have the tendency to let his heart rule over his head which hindered him further to achieve greater things in life. The scheming Daqiu married a shrewd Fu Baozhu (Cynthia Koh). He constantly plots to take over Tong Xin Yuan but all his attempts fail. In contrast, his honest and straightforward brother Dayang marries Baozhu’s sincere younger sister Fu Baobei (Felicia Chin). The two work hard to earn an honest living despite frequent efforts by Daqiu and his wife to put them down. Heaven seems to be watching out for Dayang and Baobei as they succeed in their lives. Dahai who spends most of his time working as a scriptwriter, marries a young lady from a wealthy family, Gao Jimei (Apple Hong). He goes against his mother's wishes by doing so and even moves into Jimei's household. Through his wife Jimei, he gets to know Fyn Tan (Yvonne Lim) who has turned up for revenge, thereby putting both Jimei and his life in unnecessary danger. Dajiang is still in university. He changes girlfriends constantly just like changing his clothes every now and then as he prefers something fresh and new. He always like to try out new things and yearn for changes but he harbours no great ambition. Daqiu schemes to be the Boss, white-collar worker and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan and the Head of the household of Zhou Jia Yuan all by himself, and chase Shitou, Xiu Hua and his 5 brothers out of the 2 places, followed by cheating his own mother Li Tian's assets and also take all of his 5 other brother's stakes from both Tong Xin Yuan and Zhou Jia Yuan as well. The family is turned topsy-turvy furthermore when the supposedly deceased Zhou Dong suddenly turns up who turns out to be Zhang Guangyang all these time who's also as scheming towards the family and they found out that the real Zhou Dong has been truly deceased all these while either!

Cast

Season 1

Season 2

Music

Awards and nominations

Star Awards 2007