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Eternal Moment

2011 film by Zhang Yibai

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5402674
Source-derived summary

Eternal Moment (simplified Chinese: 将爱情进行到底; traditional Chinese: 將愛情进行到底; pinyin: Jiāng ài) is a 2011 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yibai and starring Xu Jinglei, Li Yapeng and Chapman To.

The film is a sequel to the television drama, Cherish Our Love Forever (1998), which was also directed by Zhang. The film follows the two leads from that earlier drama (played by Xu Jinglei and Li Yapeng) reuniting after being apart for 12 years.

Music

Faye Wong and Eason Chan recorded the theme song "Because of Love" (因為愛情) for the film.

Reception

Film Business Asia's Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 6 out of 10.

Editorial summary

“Eternal Moment” enters the record as 2011 film by Zhang Yibai. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eternal, Moment and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eternal, Moment and film.
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“Eternal Moment” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eternal, Moment and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5402674. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from Eternal Moment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.