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https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SGByBiEsM

Raw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn56bzyiK90yvnrVjp9hstz5ndJp6qMIz

I think this movie will never air, because LYF was blacklisted in 2022...

Missing: Soda Voyu, Sean Huang, Lily Tien, Ke Huan Ru

6-7 because everything was so slow and predictable from start to finish. Incantation was much more scarier than this.

First half was really detailed and logical, but second half had so many logical plotholes that my bf kept pointing them out while watching, and it just made the movie funny instead of scary. Overall, the gullibility and incompetence of the side characters made me unable to take it seriously. Like, you must be dumb on a different level if you let your guard down a lot due to underestimating a spirit just because she's physically weak👴

No, and no. Shi was gay in the book. Yanda was only created for the drama to make him not gay.

C-dramas as in Chinese-language dramas in general? Because Fan Yichen isn't ethnically Chinese (east asian). He's an indigenous Amis (austronesian). That explains why he looks different.

Hi!
1. "Lost Track of Time" takes place in Da Han (大瀚) (not Han dynasty, different word).
2. In "Legend of Zhuohua", Northern Liang is fictional. The real one was run by the Juqu clan, not Yemu. Another clue: people in Southern Chen wore Tang-style clothes, which didn’t exist back in the Sixteen Kingdoms. The "north" and "south" in these names are part of a Sinocentric trope, signaling nomads versus Han Chinese.

Raw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Z3xInjQbcPuWnaKWSIyRJdRwgMkN95n

The one you linked is this show:
https://kisskh.at/22833-guan-yin-legend

Raw: https://www.lgsrdy.com/baidu/46196.html

Hi! Looked through all 5 pages (1-454). Everything is in a fictional world except:
114, 128, 154, 155, 223, 224: Tang dynasty.
115: Northern Song.
121: Modern + Old Babylonian Empire.
181: Republican era.
191, 192, 259: Mythology is anachronistic, so treat it as fictional.
209: Song.
232: Mythology characters traveling to modern day.
270: Qing dynasty setting, but Ming dynasty clothes (and no shaved heads), so it's anachronistic.

Dramas adapted from Gu Long and Jin Yong's novels are intentionally ambiguous. The timeline clues are very self-contradictory, so I suggest not assigning a time period and just call it fictional.

How to check:
1. 架空 (fictional world), 玄幻 (eastern fantasy), 仙侠 (xianxia) as the genre are automatically fictional, no need to dive further. 武侠 (wuxia) is fictional by default, unless explicitly stated.
2. Baidu Baike usually has the country/dynasty name written in episode summaries.
3. Prince/King's surname doesn't match with the ruling family of the real historic dynasty.
4. Compare the clothing with other dramas from the same time period.

I'm so confused why they decided to translate Dalisi as "Dali Temple"??? Dalisi actually means Court of Judicature and Revision. It's not a religious place.

Eternal Love is NOT from Song dynasty.

You were smart to catch on that "zong" is always used for emperors (for their temple name). Song Ren Zong (宋仁宗) is just a title that means "benevolent ancestor of the Song". His real name is Zhao Zhen (赵祯).

In the case of Song Xuan Ren (宋玄仁), that's his actual name, not his title. He is the king of Chengyu state (承虞国), a fake country. Eternal Love and Eternal Love of Dream are mythology. They don't correspond to real time periods.
https://vhsagj.smartapps.baidu.com/item/%E5%AE%8B%E7%8E%84%E4%BB%81/24285381

Oh you were talking about the flashbacks! I thought you were ordering things solely by the years of Chinese-ruled dynasties instead of border countries. Now that makes sense now. My bad!

As for Nanzhao kingdom, there is one drama that is historically accurate (Nan Zhao Wang) and another one still in production (盛唐南诏). For fantasy and wuxia borrowing the same name, I never associate them with the real ones because they always portray my ancestors inaccurately as outdated, derogatory stereotypes (Ancient China often spread rumors calling southern ethnic groups barbaric, dangerous, and supernatural to discourage cross-ethnic marriage).

I loved “Lost Track of Time.” So realistic and logical. The FL isn’t invincible—just a powerless civilian fighting an insanely intelligent prince. But somehow casual viewers missed all the subtle details and kept complaining she was weak.

Good list. Here are some corrections:
1. "The Legend of Xiao Chuo" has nothing to do with Later Jin. It took place when Xiao Chuo was a teenager, when Northern Song was already established.
2. "Chinese Paladin" takes place in Tang dynasty. The Nanzhao kingdom they showed is a fake, exotic fantasy country that only borrowed the name and indigenous legends. It has nothing to do with the real Nanzhao kingdom ruled by the Yi and Bai people. Rather, the witchcraft stereotypes they depict are harmful imo.
3. The Northern Chu kingdom in "Little Mad Doctor" is also a fake country that borrowed the name only.

Watch out for anything labeled fantasy or xianxia, especially webnovels. 90% the countries they use are made-up. Even folklores do this. Xi Liang (西凉) and Xi Zhou (西州) are overused names used for countries located in Xinjiang and Central Asia (xi means west). The easiest way to distinguish this, is that the real Western Liang was ruled by Han-Chinese and practices Han-Chinese culture, not foreign.

I also have a list that organizes them:
https://kisskh.at/list/1R8QjYw3

You should mark this as a spoiler.

You'll definitely like Lost Track of Time. FL is not naive and dumb. She chose risky revenge over stupid romance. Some people don't like that her revenge plan wasn't smooth, but I find it very realistic and reasonable (for someone powerless). Side characters are also very strong enemies full of personality.