Historical C-Drama Chronology sorted by Historical Periods

ANCIENT - Xia dynasty .

ANCIENT - Shang <-> Zhou dynasties .

ANCIENT - Shang <-> Zhou dynasties .

PRIMORDIAL <-> ANCIENT - Creation by Pangu <-> Shang <-> Zhou dynasties .

ANCIENT - Shang <-> Zhou dynasties .

ANCIENT - Shang <-> Zhou dynasties .

ANCIENT - Shang <-> Zhou dynasties .

ANCIENT - Zhou dynasty .

ANCIENT - Zhou dynasty <-> 21st century (from the PRC period) <-> Zhou dynasty, and Xirong (Western Barbarians) people .

ANCIENT - Western Zhou <-> final years of the Shang <-> Western Zhou dynasties <-> 21st century (from the PRC period) .

ANCIENT - Eastern Zhou dynasty <-> Chu, Qin, and Yan states (from the Warring States period), and Yiqu vassal state (from the Zhou dynasty) .

ANCIENT - Eastern Zhou <-> Spring and Autumn period .

ANCIENT - Zhou dynasty <-> Spring and Autumn period .

ANCIENT - Chu <-> Wu kingdoms (both from the Spring and Autumn period) .

ANCIENT - Qi state (during the Spring and Autumn period) .

ANCIENT - sometime during the Spring and Autumn period .

ANCIENT - sometime during the Spring and Autumn period .

ANCIENT - sometime during the Spring and Autumn period .

ANCIENT - sometime during the Spring and Autumn period .

ANCIENT - Spring and Autumn <-> Warring States periods .

ANCIENT - Spring and Autumn <-> Warring States periods .

ANCIENT - Qi state (from the Warring States period) .

ANCIENT - sometime during the Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT - Warring States period .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Warring States period <-> Qin dynasty .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Zhao, and Qin kingdoms (from the Warring States period) <-> Qin dynasty .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Warring States period <-> Qin dynasty .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Warring States period <-> Qin dynasty .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Warring States period <-> Qin dynasty .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Warring States period <-> Qin dynasty .

ANCIENT <-> IMPERIAL - Warring States period <-> Qin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Qin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Qin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Qin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Nanyue kingdom and Qin <-> Han dynasties .

IMPERIAL - Qin dynasty <-> Chu-Han Contention <-> Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Qin dynasty <-> Chu-Han Contention <-> Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Western Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL <-> MODERN - Western Han dynasty <-> People's Republic of China .

IMPERIAL - Western Han <-> Eastern Han dynasties .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Han dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty <-> Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - Han dynasty <-> Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Han dynasty <-> Shu Han kingdom (from the Three Kingdoms period) .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Han dynasty <-> Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - sometime during the Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - sometime during the Three Kingdoms period .

IMPERIAL - Jin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Jin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Eastern Jin dynasty .

IMPERIAL - Former Qin (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) .

IMPERIAL - Western Liang , Northern Yan (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) , Eastern Song* , and Southern Chu** kingdoms , and Qi* dynasty .

* Both Qi dynasty and Eastern Song kingdom are fictional.

** There was a Southern Chu in Chinese History known as Ma Chu, but that was later during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

IMPERIAL - Northern Liang (from the Sixteen Kingdoms period) <-> Northern Wei dynasties (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), and Rouran khaganate .

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

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

IMPERIAL - Liu Song and Northern Wei dynasties (both from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

IMPERIAL - Liu Song dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

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

* Southern Qing is a fictional dynasty.

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

* Southern Qing is a fictional dynasty.

IMPERIAL - Southern Qi* dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

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

IMPERIAL - Southern Qi* dynasty (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

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

IMPERIAL - Southern Liang, Northern Wei  (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period), and Southern Chu* dynasties .

* This one is fictional.

IMPERIAL - Southern Liang (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) and Yu* dynasties .

* Yu is a fictitious dynasty.

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

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

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

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

IMPERIAL - Chen dynasty* (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

* The male lead is based on a Southern Liang emperor "from the previous dynasty", and since Chen dynasty came right after Southern Liang...

IMPERIAL - sometime during the end of the Southern Dynasties* (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

* Elements from some of them, like Southern Qi, Southern Liang and Chen dynasties, can be observed in this drama.

IMPERIAL - Northern Qi , Chen and Western Wei dynasties (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

IMPERIAL - Western Wei <-> Northern Zhou (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) <-> Sui <-> Tang dynasties, and Turkic khaganate .

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

IMPERIAL - Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

IMPERIAL - Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period).

IMPERIAL - Northern Zhou and Chen dynasties (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

IMPERIAL - Northern Zhou and Chen dynasties (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) .

IMPERIAL - Northern Zhou, Northern Qi, Western Liang, and Chen (from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period) <-> Sui dynasties, and Northland (referring to the Turkic khaganate) and Tuyuhun state .

IMPERIAL - Sui dynasty .