Historical C-Drama Chronology sorted by Historical Periods

PRIMORDIAL <-> ANCIENT - Primordial Chaos <-> Creation by Pangu <-> probably Shang dynasty .

ANCIENT - sometime between the overthrow of the Xia and the triumph of the Shang dynasties .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - possibly Tang dynasty* .

* The aesthetics and the style resemble the Tang representative ones very much.

MODERN - late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - probably Southern Liang dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

ANCIENT - Jin state (during the late Spring and Autumn and the early Warring States periods) .

IMPERIAL - possibly Western Jin dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - late Qing dynasty <-> early Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - possibly Western Jin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Ming dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China <-> early People's Republic of China <-> late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Ming dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - late 20th century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Cultural Revolution (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - early People's Republic of China .

MODERN - Second Sino-Japanese War (from the Chinese Republican period) .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Chu-Han Contention <-> Western Han dynasty, and Changsha and Nanyue kingdoms .

MODERN - Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Liu Song , Northern Qi (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), and Southern Qing* dynasties .

* Southern Qing is a fictional dynasty.

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - Song dynasty <-> early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Song dynasty .

MODERN - by the end of the Republic of China .

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - Qin <-> Han <-> Song <-> Qing dynasties <-> early People's Republic of China <-> early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Tang dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Liu Song , Northern Qi (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), and Southern Qing* dynasties .

* Southern Qing is a fictional dynasty.

MODERN - Second Sino-Japanese War (from the Chinese Republican period) .

MODERN - early 21st <-> final years of the 20th centuries (both from the PRC period) .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

ANCIENT - Qin and Zhao states (possibly from sometime between the Zhou dynasty or the Spring and Autumn or the Warring States periods) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Ming dynasty .

MODERN - early 21st <-> late 20th <-> early 21st centuries (all from the PRC period) .

MODERN - early 21st <-> late 20th centuries (both from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Northern Song dynasty .

IMPERIAL - final years of the Ming dynasty .

IMPERIAL - possibly Northern Yan* (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) .

* It also contains some Song dynasty aesthetics.

IMPERIAL - possibly sometime between the Former Yan, the Later Yan, the Western Yan, or the Southern Yan kingdoms (all from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN - sometime between the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (both from the Chinese Republican period) .

ANCIENT - Wei and Chu states (from the Spring and Autumn period) .

MODERN - early 21st century (from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Western Liang dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

IMPERIAL - Tang dynasty .

MODERN - early People's Republic of China ?

IMPERIAL - Eastern Jin dynasty ?

MODERN - final years of the 20th century (from the PRC period) ?

MODERN <-> IMPERIAL - 21st century (from the PRC period) <-> Western Han dynasty ?

MODERN - final years of the Republic of China ?

IMPERIAL - Hu Xia, Northern Yan, and Northern Liang kingdoms (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) <-> Northern Wei dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) ?

MODERN - late 20th century (from the PRC period) ?

IMPERIAL - Western Wei, Southern Liang (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) and Yan North* dynasties, and Rouran khaganate .

* This one is fictional, even though it is sometimes referred to as Northern Yan, which, being from the Sixteen Kingdoms period, had already been destroyed for more than 100 years ?

IMPERIAL - Northern Wei dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) ?

IMPERIAL - Eastern Han dynasty ?

ANCIENT - Daliang capital of the Wei state (from the Warring States period) ?

IMPERIAL - Liang dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) ?

IMPERIAL - Southern Qi (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) ?

IMPERIAL - Southern Song dynasty .

IMPERIAL - final years of the Northern Song dynasty .

IMPERIAL - sometime during the Song dynasty .

IMPERIAL - probably Ming dynasty .

IMPERIAL - probably Ming dynasty .

IMPERIAL - possibly Tang dynasty .

MODERN - People's Republic of China <-> Republic of China <-> People's Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - possibly Song dynasty* .

* The clothes and aesthetics resemble the ones used in Song dynasty dramas.

ANCIENT - Chu state (probably during the late Zhou dynasty, the Spring and Autumn or the Warring States period) .

MODERN - People's Republic of China <-> early years of the People's Republic of China <-> Cultural Revolution (from the PRC period) <-> early People's Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - late Qing dynasty .

IMPERIAL - final years of the Qing dynasty .

MODERN - Republic of China .

MODERN <-> IMPERIAL - 21st century (from the PRC period) <-> Ming dynasty <-> 21st century (from the PRC period) <-> Qing dynasty <->

MODERN - mid-Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Qin dynasty <-> Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period .

MODERN <-> - 21st century (from the PRC period) <->

MODERN - mid-20th <-> early 21st centuries (both from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Southern Song and Jin dynasties .

IMPERIAL - Southern Song and Jin dynasties .

MODERN - late Republic of China .

MODERN - early 21st century <-> early years of the 21st century (both from the PRC period) .

IMPERIAL - Mo*, Cang*, Dai*, Yan*, Ying*, Ji*, Dan*, Jin*, and Xin* plains** .

* The nine-region division is a clear reference to the Nine Provinces of the earliest dynasties. However, their names were different: Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Liang, Yong.

** Although based on a Qing dynasty novel, this drama is possibly a blend of historical dynasties, for instance, Han, Tang, Song, and Ming, being it more of a Song dynasty drama than any of the others.

MODERN - late Chinese Civil War (from the Chinese Republican period) <-> early People's Republic of China .

ANCIENT - possibly* Jiang state (or Jiangqi vassal state of the Zhou dynasty) and Zhou dynasty .

* Despite the other dynasties' elements that can be easily tracked.

MODERN - Republic of China <-> People's Republic of China <-> Republic of China <-> People's Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - possibly (Hu) Xia kingdom* (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) .

* Other kingdoms from the same period are referenced as well, such as Cheng-Han and Later Zhao kingdoms.

MODERN - Republic of China .