Filming Locations

Walk the actual sets, streets and landscapes where your favourite C-dramas were shot.

A grey brick city gate with a double-eaved timber tower above a dark archway, red flags on the parapet and young grass at the base

Full River Red Filming Locations: The 2021 Ancient City

On this page The whole film was shot in one building What Full River Red is One compound, five courtyards Three numbers that are wrong differently What you actually walk through How long, and in what order Three cities called Taiyuan Ancient City Jinyang: burned, then flooded The rebuild: 3,732 metres of wall The third

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A lake in the Chengde Mountain Resort with wooded islands, pavilions and a ridge of hills behind

Chengde Filming Locations: The Eight Outer Temples Are Not Eight

Chengde exists because the Qing court needed somewhere to go in July, and Chinese television exists in a world where the Forbidden City is largely closed to cameras. Those two facts explain almost everything a visitor finds here: a 564-hectare imperial garden that is nearly twice the size of Beijing’s Summer Palace, twelve royal temples

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The sharp snow pyramid of Jampelyang rising above a golden autumn meadow with a small pool reflecting it

Daocheng Yading Filming Locations: The Airport Is Almost the Summit

There is one film scene shot in Yading, and it lasts about four minutes. Everything else that makes this valley worth a nine-hour journey is either geological, political, or a number on a signboard. The Daocheng Yading filming locations question is therefore a short one, and this page answers it in the first section so

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Lantern-lit houses along a canal at Wuzhen Xizha at night, with reflections in the still water and a dark blue sky above

Wuzhen Filming Locations: The Drama That Didn’t Make This Town Famous

The most famous water town in China appears in almost none of the dramas that made people book flights to China, which makes the Wuzhen filming locations question a short one. The water town in those dramas is a set, built inside a theme park 200 km from here. Wuzhen’s own screen credit is a

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