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

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

. 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 ...

to explain the mysterious disappearance of

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...

's Jianwen Emperor after the Jingnan Campaign. It stars Taiwanese actress Zhang Ting as a kungfu-trained thief who time-traveled from modern Hong Kong to 14th-century

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and t ...

, 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

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the China, People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming Island, Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territorie ...

.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 *Gao Yong as

Zhu Gang Zhu or ZHU may refer to: * Zhu (surname), common Chinese surnames *Zhu River, or Pearl River, in southern China *Zhu (state), ancient Chinese state, later renamed Zou *House of Zhu, the ruling house of the Ming dynasty in Chinese history *Zhu (str ...

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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