Dai Chun Rong is a Chinese actress famous for playing the role of Chinese empresses in drama series titles. She was born on February 2, 1961, in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. Her first TV series role came in 1996, when she played the Empress Xu in “Han Gong Fei Yan.” She followed up in 1998, again playing the Empress in drama series “My Fair Princess.” Her most recent portrayal of an empress was in 2013, when she played the 6th-century Empress Dowager Hu in “Prince of Lan Ling.”

Dai Chun Rong

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The year is 1760. Princesses Xiao Yan Zi (Zhao Wei) and Xia Zi Wei (Ruby Lin) are adored by Emperor Qian Long.

But things are about to change for the young girls. The Empress dislikes both of them, and plots to turn the powerful Dowager Empress against them. Both of the princesses are from poor backgrounds, and she instantly takes a dislike to them.

Meanwhile, the princesses meet the lover of an Uyghur chieftain at a restaurant. He explains the sad tale of his love for the Uyghur chieftain’s daughter – explaining that she has been sent to become the concubine of Emperor Qian Long.

The young women resolve to help the chieftain’s daughter and succeed in sneaking her out of the palace.

However, when the Emperor learns what has happened, he sentences them both to death in a fit of fury.

With help from their friends, they escape the palace. But the scheming Empress wants rid of them forever, and sends a band of deadly assassins after them!

Can the princesses escape the deadly threat – and might they one day return to the Imperial Palace?

“My Fair Princess Season 2” is a 1999 Chinese period drama that was directed by Sun Shu Pei and Li Ping.

My Fair Princess Season 2

Always Fair Team

In 18th-century China, the Qing Dynasty’s Emperor Qian Long rules the land. The Emperor is unaware that he has a 17-year-old daughter, named Xia Zi Wei (Ruby Lin), who was born after he had a brief fling with her mother.

Xia Zi Wei is determined to meet her father and travels from her provincial home to the Forbidden City in an effort to seek him out.

However, gaining an audience with the Emperor proves far more difficult than she expected. But Xia Zi Wei refuses to give up hope and remains in the capital – where she one day meets Xiao Yan Zi (Zhao Wei), a streetwise orphan girl.


The girls become firm friends and hatch a plan to meet the Emperor during a hunting trip.

However, their plan is thwarted when Xiao Yan Zi is injured by an arrow fired by the Emperor’s son. The Emperor finds Xiao Yan Zi, and mistakes her for his own daughter, taking her to the Imperial Court.

Will the truth out? And will Xia Zi Wei ever be able to take her rightful place in the palace?

“My Fair Princess” is a 1998 Chinese period drama that was directed by Sun Shu Pei.

My Fair Princess

Dragon TV

Princess Feng Xin’er (Tiffany Tang) grew up safe and loved, in her Northern Liang home but her carefree life comes crashing down when her father is accused of treason and her entire family is murdered by the power-hungry marshal of the Northern Wei. Barely escaping with her life, Feng Xin’er is determined to avenge her family’s death. The only question is, how? 

With the death of the Prime Minister’s daughter, Li Weiyoung, Feng Xin’er sees an opportunity and grabs it. Disguising herself as the now dead princess,Feng Xin’er takes on the role of the late Li Weiyoung and infiltrates the royal house of the Northern Wei. Driven by an all-consuming need for revenge, the new Princess Weiyoung does everything in her power to bring down the house of her enemies, but even the best laid plans don’t always go as expected. 

Caught up in a world of politics and passion, can Princess Weiyoung find a way to rise above the turmoil and make peace with her past?

Princess Weiyoung

Royal  Team

Hunan Satellite TV

A sitting princess has everything taken away from her by her power-hungry uncle, but can she get it all back? 

In 10th-century imperial China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Ma Fuya (Ruby Lin) is a princess in the Chu state during a tumultuous time of warring kingdoms and political unrest. When Fuya’s uncle seizes the throne and kills off her family, Fuya barely escapes with her life and is exiled. 

When both Meng Qi You (Kevin Yan), the prince of Later Shu, and Liu Lian Cheng (Wallace Huo), the prince of Northern Han, fall in love with Fuya, she becomes embroiled in succession struggles and battles between states. Can Fuya use her position to rise to power, avenge her family and regain her kingdom? 

“The Glamorous Imperial Concubine” is a 2011 Chinese drama series directed by Lin Feng and George Leung. The drama is based on a novel by the same name by Murong Yinr and marks the production debut of Ruby Lin, who also stars in the series.

The Glamorous Imperial Concubine

Qing Shi Huang Fei 

Hunan TV

After a terrible car accident, 25-year-old Zhang Xiao (Liu Shi Shi) travels from modern-day China back to the 18th century. She is incarnated as one of her previous lives – that of 16-year-old Maertai Rouxi, the daughter of a Manchu general, during the Qing Dynasty. 

When attempts to return to her life in the future fail, Rouxi tries to adjust to her new life in the court of Emperor Kang Xi but soon becomes entangled in the princes’ struggle to succeed the throne. With her modern-day knowledge, Rouxi toys with history in her romances with the Eighth Prince, Yin Si (Kevin Cheng), and Fourth Prince, Yin Zhen (Nicky Wu), while sharing the confidences of the 13th prince, Yin Xiang (Yuan Hong). 

Will Rouxi be able to return to her modern-day life or is she destined to live out her life in the past? 

“Scarlet Heart” is a 2011 Chinese drama series directed by Wu Jin Yuan, Lin Yu Fen and Deng Wei En. It is based on a novel by Tong Hua.

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