Article: Top 10 Must-Watch Chinese Historical Dramas

Chinese Dramas are to die! Everyone is swooning over modern-age dramas and young-age dramas, but we miss Historical dramas. Chinese historical dramas include romance, action, betrayal, fantasy, and more. Today, we bring you a list of the top 10 Chinese historical dramas you must watch!

1. The Untamed

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian belong to two separate clans. They meet accidentally during the training of cultivation and discover a secret together. Wanting to keep the world safe, they both decide to eliminate that threat. But in the same process, Wei Wuxian dies. After sixteen years, he is brought back to life through a self-sacrificing ritual. Soon after, he meets Lan Wangji, and they both try to solve the mysteries of the past.

 

2. Eternal Love

This drama is inspired by "Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" by Tang Qi Gong Zi. The Nine-tailed Fox Bai Qian is the youngest Daughter of Fox King. She becomes a student of Mo Yuan, the God of war. Seventy thousand years later, Bai loses her memory and starts to live on an isolated mountain under some circumstances. There she saves Crown Prince Ye Hua of the Nine Heavens. Will there be any love between them?

 

3. The Romance Of Tiger And Rose

Chen Xiao Qian is an aspiring screenwriter. After a long time, her script finally makes it to a reasonable price. Her male lead refuses to act for the role. Upset by his behaviour, she tries to rewrite the script and improve it somehow. During her nap between rewriting, she gets transported into her own story. She becomes Third Princess Chen Qian Qian, a side character. She knows she will be killed in the male lead's third episode. So, she tries to make out alive with the knowledge of her script and go back home. Will she be able to do it?

 

4. Joy Of Life

Fan Xian lives with his old grandmother in a tiny town by the sea. His life takes a U-turn and becomes adventurous and challenging when he meets the poison master. His skills sharpen in making medicines, martial arts, and the art of poison. Wanting to know more about his mother, he makes his way to the capital. Unravelling new secrets about his family and experiencing the dangers, he finds love and the purpose of his life on this journey.

 

5. Ashes Of Love

This drama is inspired by the web novel "Heavy sweetness Ash-like frost" by Dian Xian. When Jin Mi was born four thousand years ago, her fate written already, she became a prisoner in Shui Jing. After four thousand years, the son of the fire deity and the heavenly king gets caught by the enemy, which sends him to Shui Jing. Here, Mi protects him. These two become close over the following years.

 

6. Word Of Honor

This drama is inspired by 'Faraway Wanderers' by Priest and has 36 episodes in total. Zhou Zi Shu wants to leave the assassin organization and to do so. He does a compulsory departure technique. He disguises himself and wants to live the rest of his life wandering in this world to mix well. But Wen Ke Xing recognizes him. The duo then becomes close and discovers a conspiracy.

 

7. The Rise Of Phoenixes

Feng Zhi Wei is not favoured in her family and has to leave because of circumstances. She owes a favour to a man named Ning Yi. So, Wei joins Qingming Academy in disguise as a man. Soon she becomes the supreme scholar to the emperor. How will she live as a man? Will she be exposed?

 

8. Goodbye, My Princess

It is the story of the 9th princess of Western Liang and the Crown Prince. Initially wanting to get married for an alliance, they fall in love very soon.

 

9. Rookie Agent Rouge

Lan Yan Zhi is a wealthy banker's daughter. Her sharp memory and street smartness make her extraordinary. Her spy journey begins when she finds a letter from the Japanese army in 1937.

 

10. Novoland: The Castle In The sky

This drama had over 1.6 billion views since its run. There are two clans of humans- the winged clan and the normal ones. Both the families tried to beat each other and fight for supremacy and power from the very beginning. Who will win?