Filming Locations

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

Erhai Lake and the Cangshan mountains near Dali, Yunnan

Meet Yourself Filming Locations: The Real Dali Behind the Slowest C-Drama

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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Illuminated riverside buildings at night in Xiangyang

Joy of Life Filming Locations: Fan Xian’s China You Can Actually Walk

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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Cloud-wrapped forested peaks in Guizhou, filmed as the Cloud Recesses in The Untamed

The Untamed Filming Locations: Every Real Place Fans Can Visit in China

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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The Leifeng Pagoda silhouetted across West Lake in Hangzhou at dusk

Swords Into Plowshares Filming Locations: The Real Wuyue Kingdom (太平年)

Swords Into Plowshares Filming Locations: A Travel Guide to the Real Wuyue Kingdom (太平年) I came to Swords Into Plowshares (太平年) expecting a palace drama. What I got was something rarer — a historical epic that made me want to book a flight to Hangzhou before the final credits rolled. This guide follows the Swords

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A tree-lined hutong alley in Nanluoguxiang, central Beijing, with bicycles and grey brick walls

The Tale of Rose Filming Locations: Chasing Liu Yifei Across Beijing and Shanghai

The Tale of Rose Filming Locations: Chasing Liu Yifei Across Beijing and Shanghai I’ll be honest with you. I didn’t plan a trip around The Tale of Rose (玫瑰的故事, also listed as Rose Story). I was already going to Beijing. But somewhere between episode three and episode twelve — watching Huang Yimei (Liu Yifei) walk

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Dinghu Peak rising out of mist above a stone bridge at Xiandu scenic area in Jinyun, Zhejiang

Lost You Forever Filming Locations: The Real Places You Can Visit (长相思)

The Lost You Forever filming locations are real — but finding them can turn into a three-hour Douyin rabbit hole. So you finished Lost You Forever (长相思) and now you’re wondering why your own life doesn’t look like a misty mountain painting with three devastatingly attractive immortals competing for your attention. Same. But here’s the

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