| Urban family ethics TV series is one of the most popular TV series types in China at present. Both in mainland and Hong Kong, it has characteristics of history classic and time signal. It explores and narrates contents of family stories and complicated ethics in the two places, what constitutes the numerous and complicated landscape of modernized China. Urban family ethics TV series in the two places present different images because of multiple differences in history, political evolution and production environment of TV series and so forth. While some advantages of ethical values and narration method of urban family ethics TV series of Hong Kong provide reference and enlightenment.Urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and Hong Kong both have different stages of development and appearance, and the historical development has laid the foundation of the difference in the present. In urban family ethics TV series’ image narration, the rich form construction of that in the mainland manifests the traditional ethics view of "intergration of nation and family". Conversely, urban family ethics TV series in Hong Kong manifest the ethics view, which is "there is family, but no country". Although famliy has been highlighted in urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and country has been weakened in that in Hong Kong. However, they both don’t change their different echics views. Urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and Hong Kong both explain the game of traditional ethics and modern ethics from three dimensions, which is the relationship of father and son or daughter, of husband and wife, and of brothers and sisters. In the expression that the patriarchy and manus have faded away, the value orientation in the urban family ethics TV series of Hong Kong is more ambiguous than that of the mainland. While the relationship of brothers and sisters showcases modernism of individual independence and equality conciousness, as well as justice and profit regarding as equally important and so forth, which is ahead of that in the mainland. As a kind of technical activity, TV series narration generates the form and style of urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and Hong Kong, as well as aesthetic quality. In the aspect of the micro skills of narration, namely narration discourse, chronological order and reverse chronological order, vertical or horizontal structure and life of meaning, slow progress and quick jump reflect similarites and differences between urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and those in Hong Kong on narration time, space and rhythm. The aesthetic style such as life stream and theatricality, implicit beauty and straightforwardness demonstrate the difference on macro aesthetic between them. They have explored, impacted and learned from each other along with communication and interaction between TV series in the mainland and it in Hong Kong. The infulence of urban family ethics TV series in the mainland has improved since Hong Kong returned to China, which is called the true sense of the bidirectional interaction with Hong Kong’s productions. While before it urban family ethics TV series in Hong Kong have been transmited in the mainland, but those in the mainland hardly have been transmited in Hong Kong. A number of problems arise with the interaction and fusion between urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and in Hong Kong.By comparing urban family ethics TV series in the mainland and in Hong Kong, it is clear and definite that the narration features such as ethics view of "intergration of nation and family", life stream and subtle beauty are the distinct characteristics of urban family ethics TV series in the mainland. Return to the warm expression of family, expand exploration of comedy and break through the type fusion with the single aesthetic dimension, what will be the development path of urban family ethics TV series in the mainland which can be explored in the future.
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