''Love Through Different Times'', also known as ''Funniest Stories of the Ming's Royalists'', is a 2002 Chinese television

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. A ludicrous story, the drama uses

time travel Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...

to explain the mysterious disappearance of

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Jianwen Emperor The Jianwen Emperor (5 December 1377 – ?), personal name Zhu Yunwen (), was the second Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1398 to 1402. The era name of his reign, Jianwen, means "establishing civility" and represented a sharp chan ...

after the Jingnan Campaign. It stars Taiwanese actress Zhang Ting as a

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-trained thief who time-traveled from modern Hong Kong to 14th-century

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, where she fell in love with Zhu Yunwen ( Xu Zheng), the eventual Jianwen Emperor. It is considered the first time-travel television series produced in

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.新舞台：穿越剧“穿”进剧场步步也“精”心
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Cast and characters

* Zhang Ting as Xiaowanzi * Xu Zheng as Zhu Yunwen (Jianwen Emperor) *Wan Hongjie as Zhu Di (Yongle Emperor) *Liu Lili as Zhang Chuchu *Sun Baoguang as Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor) *Hou Jingyu as

Zhu Shuang Zhu Shuang (; 3 December 1356 – 19 April 1395) was an imperial prince of the Chinese Ming dynasty. He was the second son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming. In May 1370, the Hongwu Emperor granted the title of Prince of Qin to him ...

*Gao Yong as

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References

2002 Chinese television series debuts 2002 Chinese television series endings Television series set in the Ming dynasty Mandarin-language television shows Chinese comedy-drama television series Chinese time travel television series Television series set in the 14th century {{China-tv-stub

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