Name: Queen Dugu
Genre: Historical, Romantic Comedy, Costume & Period
Released: 2019-02-11
Rating: 8.9
Cast: Chen Xiao, Joe Chen, Modi Chiu, Qi Ji, Hai Lu

Chen Xiao is a Chinese actor. Born on July 5, 1987, he made his acting debut in the 2010 film “Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.” He has since starred in many popular films and television dramas, including “Legend of Lu Zhen” (2013), “Swordsman” (2013), “The Romance of the Condor Heroes” (2014) and “Love & Life & Lie” (2017).

Chen Xiao

Joe Chen Qiao En, also known as Joe Chen, is a popular Taiwanese actress, singer and model. Born on April 4, 1979, she began her career as a model in 2001 and then broke into acting in television dramas, including “My MVP Valentine” (2001) and “100% Senorita” (2004). She rose to fame in the popular drama “Fated to Love You,” for which she was nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards, and cemented her star status with “Invincible Shan Bao Mei” (2008), “Easy Fortune Happy Life” (2009), “The Queen of SOP” (2012), “Swordsman” (2013), “Destined to Love You” (2015), “Stay With Me” (2016-2017), “Love Actually” (2017)&nbsp;and “The Legendary Tycoon” (2017).

In 2004, Joe Chen also became co-leader of the girl group 7 Flower. The talented star has even published a book titled Joe See or Not See.

Joe Chen

Modi Chiu is a Taiwanese singer, musician, and actor born on October 10, 1990, in Taichung, Taiwan. He first rose to prominence when he appeared on the audition survival show “Bang Bang Tang,” and was subsequently selected as a guitarist for the group Choc7. The group made its debut in 2008, and in the same year, Modi Chiu made his movie debut with a role in “Winds of September.” In 2011, he joined three-member group JPM, along with his older brother, and the group remained active until 2015. Meanwhile, he has continued to pursue his acting career, recently featuring in the movie “The Outsiders” (2018) and the drama “Hello Again!” (2019).

Modi Chiu

Qi Ji is a Chinese actor born in Dalian, China, on December 30, 1982. He attended the Beijing Film Academy and got his first entertainment break as a model while still a student, winning a prize at the New Silk Road Modeling Contest in 2000. A year later, he graduated, and later made his debut in 2005-2006 martial arts-themed period drama “There Is the Weapon of the Tear Stain.” He made his movie bow in 2012, featuring in “Moonlight Love.” He went on to appear in a number of TV drama and titles, such as “Romance of the West Chamber” (2013) and “Memory Lost” seasons 1, 2 and 3 in 2016. More recently, he has appeared in the dramas “Psychologist” (2017) and “Queen Dugu” (2019).

Qi Ji

Hai Lu is a Chinese actress born on October 15, 1987, in Zhengzhou, China. She studied in the Shanghai Theater Academy’s Performing Arts Department and went on to make her drama debut in “Modern Beauty" (2006). She made her big-screen debut the following year, with a lead role in the film “Wristband love". In 2011, she won acclaim from critics and fans alike when she starred in “New My Fair Princess," a drama based on a hit novel by Taiwanese author Chiung Yao. She has also appeared on Chinese variety show titles, including “Let’s Go” (2015), “We Are Seventeen” (2016), and season 2 of “Birth of an Actor” (2018). More recently, she has appeared in the dramas “The Last Cook” (2019) and “Queen Dugu” (2019).

Hai Lu

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In 6th-century China, the young Dugu Jia Luo (Joe Chen) is the seventh daughter of the Duke of Wei, an influential general in a land dominated by warring families. Political chaos is rife, and civil war rages throughout the factitious territories that will one day become China.

Dugu Jia Luo’s life is thrown into turmoil when a scheming public official sees to it that her family is unfairly blamed for wrongdoing. She and her family become pariahs. But the young Dugu Jia Luo resolves to learn from this bitter experience. She decides to become a strong-minded woman who lets justice and honor rules everything she does.

She marries a young man named&nbsp;Yang Jian (Chen Xiao), the eldest son of the Duke of Sui. The young Dugu Jia Luo and Yang Jian make a solemn and fateful pledge of fidelity to one another.

With her quick wits, and his formidable skills on the battlefield, the couple soon realizes that they have what it takes to put an end to decades of war – and unite China under the Sui banner.

But the custom of taking concubines is common among Chinese royalty.

So what will become of their vow of monogamy if Yang Jian does become the Emperor of China? And does this young couple really have what it takes to establish a dynasty that can bring the country out of civil war – and into a new golden era of history?
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This drama is based on the true story of Emperor Wen and his wife, the Empress consort Wenxian, who died just after the turn of the 7th Century.
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“Queen Dugu” is a 2019 Chinese drama series directed by Zhang Xiao Zheng.

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