Love Like the Galaxy (星汉灿烂) is set in a dynasty that never existed — and that is exactly why its locations are worth chasing. The show built its world in two real places a thousand miles apart: a Guizhou mountain city that doubles for an ancient capital, and the largest backlot in China. Almost every
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Pursuit of Jade (逐玉) looks expensive without trying to, and the reason is geographic. It is a 2026 costume drama that swapped green screen for a real Chinese county most foreign fans cannot place on a map — which is why the Pursuit of Jade filming locations are worth a trip, and also why so
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You have seen the Forbidden City a hundred times. Not the real one. The real one has not let a drama crew inside since the 1980s — so every concubine, every poisoning, every endless courtyard you remember was shot somewhere else, in Zhejiang, on a copy built to the same measurements. That copy is the
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There is a line early in A Dream of Splendor about throwing money into West Lake. The lake the camera is actually looking at is 200 km away, in Wuxi, and it is called Taihu. That single substitution tells you almost everything about how this show was made — and it is the reason the
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There is a real Langya Mountain in China. It is in Chuzhou, Anhui, it has a pavilion that Ouyang Xiu wrote a famous essay about in 1046, and it has nothing to do with Nirvana in Fire. The show’s Langya Mountain is a fiction — and the cliffs, mist and waterfalls that stood in for
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Blossoms Shanghai (繁花, Fán Huā) is a period piece about a period that is still within living memory — Shanghai in the late 1980s and early 1990s — which makes its Blossoms Shanghai filming locations unusually complicated. Some are real and still standing. Some were rebuilt on a backlot because the originals are gone. And
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Meet Yourself filming locations are the places you have already seen without realising it. Youfeng Courtyard, where she unpacks her suitcase and decides to stay. Sideng Street, where the market stalls go up. The stone bridge she crosses dragging a suitcase behind her. Yun Miao — the village the whole show is named after —
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Joy of Life (庆余年, Qìng Yú Nián) does something rare among C-dramas: it puts its hero in places that look lived-in. Fan Xian’s world is not a fantasy backlot of empty palaces — it has streets, teahouses, market crowds and river towns. The good news is that most of it is real, and two of
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The Untamed filming locations begin with a specific moment every fan remembers, and it is almost never the plot. It is the look of the place — the grey stone steps, the mist sitting low over a bamboo ridge, the courtyard where two people stood and said nothing. The Untamed was shot across some of
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