{ "id": "epz17e2hhq", "slug": "candle-in-the-tomb-epz17e2hhq", "title": "Candle in the Tomb (鬼吹灯之精绝古城)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia", "label": "East Asian drama series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials", "label": "East Asian web and streaming serials", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials.alpha-symbols-to-co", "label": "Titles symbols to Co", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials.alpha-symbols-to-co" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials", "label": "China · 2001 to 2020: East Asian web and streaming serials", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001", "label": "China · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials", "label": "East Asian web and streaming serials", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Candle in the Tomb: The Ancient City of Jingjue (鬼吹灯之精绝古城) is a 2016 Tencent Video web series adapted from Tianxia Bachang's novel, starring Jin Dong and Joe Chen, directed by Kong Sheng, praised for fidelity, and later central to a copyright ruling against the film Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe.", "snippet": "Candle in the Tomb: The Ancient City of Jingjue (鬼吹灯之精绝古城) is a 2016 Tencent Video web series adapted from Tianxia Bachang's novel, starring Jin Dong and Joe Chen, directed by Kong Sheng, praised for fidelity, and later central to a copyright ruling against the film Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials.alpha-symbols-to-co", "markdown": "# Candle in the Tomb (鬼吹灯之精绝古城)\n\n**Candle in the Tomb: The Ancient City of Jingjue** (鬼吹灯之精绝古城) is a 2016 Chinese web series adapted from the novel of the same name by Zhang Muye, who writes under the pen name Tianxia Bachang (天下霸唱). The novel follows Hu Bayi, a demobilized soldier who joins an archaeological expedition to the ruins of Jingjue, a lost city in the [Taklamakan Desert](https://www.edgepedia.org/taklamakan-desert), using inherited feng shui divination techniques to navigate tombs and traps[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html). The series was produced by Noon Sunshine (正午阳光) for Penguin Pictures and streamed on [Tencent Video](https://www.edgepedia.org/tencent-video), starring Jin Dong as Hu Ba Yi and [Joe Chen](https://www.edgepedia.org/joe-chen) (Chen Qiao'en) as Shirley Yang[2](https://m.fx361.com/news/2023/0218/23629764.html) • [3](https://thetvdb.com/series/candle-in-the-tomb).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Source novel | *Gui Chui Deng zhi Jingjue Gucheng* by Zhang Muye (Tianxia Bachang); the Ghost Blows Out the Light series has run since February 2006 and drawn tens of millions of readers[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html) |\n| Premiere | December 19, 2016 on Tencent Video; 21 episodes, average runtime 35 minutes[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/candle-in-the-tomb) • [4](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html) |\n| Main cast | Jin Dong (Hu Ba Yi), Joe Chen (Shirley Yang), Zhao Da (Wang Kai Xuan)[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/candle-in-the-tomb) |\n| Production | Penguin Pictures (commissioning), Noon Sunshine (production), directors Kong Sheng and Zhou You, screenwriter Bai Yicong[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html) |\n| Reception | Douban rating of 8.6 after the first six episodes; 170 million views within 12 hours of launch[6](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c22219-28971062.html) • [4](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html) |\n| Budget | About 80 million yuan total, roughly 4 million yuan per episode by one account; producer Hou Hongliang cited a 5 million yuan per episode budget that grew tight[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html) • [7](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1461639) |\n| Film adaptation dispute | The 2015 film *Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe* (九层妖塔) was ruled in August 2019 to have infringed Zhang Muye's rights of attribution and integrity; he was awarded 50,000 yuan[8](https://whb-oss.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/zhuzhan/kandian/20150917/37526.html) • [1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\n#### Episodes 1–6: Yeren Gou and the Liao-Jin tomb\n\nThe story opens in the early 1980s. Hu Bayi (Jin Dong), a soldier just discharged after the death of his unit in the [Kunlun Mountains](https://www.edgepedia.org/kunlun-mountains), returns to Beijing and falls back in with Wang Kaixuan, called Pangzi (Zhao Da), a loudmouth with a market stall and debts. An old family book, the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Compendium, has taught Hu Bayi how to read mountains and water to find tombs, and the two men, broke and restless, decide to go raid one. They head for Yeren Gou in the northeast with a guide and a young companion, and descend into a Liao-Jin era tomb built into a cliff.\n\nThe tomb teaches the audience the rules of the trade: the candle in the southeast corner, the rooster's crow, the corpse gas. What they find is worse than gold. A red hou, a ferocious ape-like beast, stalks the passages, and the expedition nearly kills all of them before they claw out with a pair of jade artifacts, one a broken fragment shaped like an eye.\n\n#### Episodes 7–12: Kunlun and the Nine-Story Demon Tower\n\nHu Bayi's past comes back for him. Shirley Yang (Chen Qiao'en), an American-raised photographer, and Professor Chen (Yang Xin) of the Institute of Archaeology recruit him and Pangzi as guides for an expedition into the Kunlun Mountains, where soldiers died years earlier and where Shirley's father disappeared searching for the ancient city of Jingjue. Hu Bayi recognizes the mountain where his own comrades were lost, and agrees, partly for the money and partly to face what happened there.\n\nThe glacier expedition is a chain of disasters. An avalanche buries part of the team. In the ice they find the Nine-Story Demon Tower, a structure of stacked corpses and rituals belonging to a lost civilization, and beneath it a cavern system where a giant salamander-like beast attacks the party. Members of the team die one by one. The expedition fails to reach Jingjue from this side, but the eye-shaped mark turns up again, and Professor Chen refuses to give up: the desert holds the city, and the team regroups for a second attempt.\n\n#### Episodes 13–21: The Taklamakan and Jingjue\n\nThe second expedition crosses the Taklamakan Desert with camels, water reckoned by the day, and their guide An Liman, while within the party itself lurks the cold, calculating Sadi Peng, who wants Jingjue's treasure for himself and will spend other people's lives to get it. The desert kills first. A black sandstorm swallows the camp, the team is scattered, and they stumble half-dead into the ruins of Jingjue, where the real horror begins.\n\nThe city is dead but not empty. Pig-faced bats pour out of the ruins. Beneath the city lies the Ghost Cave, and in the shrine above it the team finds the tomb of the Queen of Jingjue: a coffin of Kunlun divine wood, crowned by the legendary corpse-preserving arum, the flower that keeps the dead from rotting. Inside lies the queen, masked, dressed in splendor.\n\n**Hu Bayi lifts the mask from the Queen of Jingjue, and the face underneath is Shirley Yang's.** The staging is pure slow burn: the team has fought its way down through collapsing tunnels and swarming creatures to this one chamber, the arum flower looms over the coffin, and when the mask comes away the camera holds on the impossible resemblance while the team stands frozen. The queen's face is the series' central mystery made flesh: why does a woman dead for two thousand years wear the face of the living American photographer standing beside her coffin? The scene tips the expedition from treasure hunt into nightmare.\n\nThen everything goes wrong at once. Sadi Peng, desperate for the treasure, pushes Chu Jian into the abyss and turns on the others; Professor Chen, confronted with what the city means, faints and comes out of it insane. The team's only way out runs through the cave system, and their guide is a stone box holding a prophet's sheepskin scroll which must never touch the ground. The mad Professor Chen drops it. The cave begins to collapse, the walls split into three passages, and the fallen prophet's carved finger points at one of them. Hu Bayi gambles the whole party's lives on a dead man's gesture, they run for the passage it indicates, and the prophecy holds: it is the one exit that does not close. The survivors, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang, and Pangzi, stagger out of the desert alive, carrying the eye-shaped jade.\n\n### Characters\n\n**Hu Bayi** (Jin Dong) is the leader: a former soldier who reads feng shui like a map and treats tomb raiding as a craft with rules. Jin Dong plays him straight and grounded, a man of few words in a genre full of shrieking; the production deliberately insisted on a realist approach to him, so that the fantastic events around a believable 1980s everyman land harder [12](http://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c40606-28971033.html).\n\n**Shirley Yang** (Chen Qiao'en) funds the expeditions and photographs them, but she has a private reason: her father vanished looking for Jingjue, and the broken eye-shaped jade connects her family to the city. By the end, her face is identical to the dead queen's.\n\n**Wang Pangzi** (Zhao Da) is the comic engine and the muscle, greedy, loud, endlessly quotable, and fiercely loyal to Hu Bayi. [The Hu](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-hu)-Pangzi double act, bickering through avalanches and gunfights, is what most viewers come away quoting.\n\n**Professor Chen** (Yang Xin) is the archaeologist whose obsession with Jingjue outlives every warning, and whose mind the city finally takes. **Sadi Peng** is the human villain, a rival raider whose greed escalates from sabotage to murder in the final act.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe mask scene and the queen's face have been debated since broadcast: the series follows the novel in implying a bloodline or reincarnation link between Shirley Yang and the Queen of Jingjue, but leaves the mechanism unexplained, which became the standard fan argument. Chinese censors also shaped the show: critics noted that the supernatural creatures, the pig-faced bats, the mercury children, the fire beetles, were given \"materialist\" or quasi-scientific explanations, a deliberate strategy to keep the supernatural material broadcastable while satisfying the novel's fans [12](http://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c40606-28971033.html) • [13](https://www.bang.cn/article/176616.html).\n\n### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations\n\nThe series adapts the first volume of Tianxia Bachang's *Ghost Blows Out the Light*, the 2006 novel series whose online rights for eight books were bought by Penguin Pictures [14](http://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c22219-28968193.html). It was followed by further *Candle in the Tomb* web series continuing Hu Bayi's story, and by the parallel *Mojin* film franchise drawn from the same novels.\n\n## The source novel\n\nZhang Muye's *Ghost Blows Out the Light* (鬼吹灯) series is a tomb-raiding adventure saga about several \"Mojin Xiaowei\" (摸金校尉, gold-touching lieutenants), tomb raiders who use inherited feng shui and geomancy knowledge to explore and loot ancient burial sites. The series began appearing online in February 2006 and attracted tens of millions of readers[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html). The title phrase comes from the novels' motto \"a man lights the candle, the ghost blows it out\" (人点烛，鬼吹灯)[8](https://whb-oss.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/zhuzhan/kandian/20150917/37526.html).\n\n*The Ancient City of Jingjue* is the first book of the series. Its plot sends Hu Ba Yi and his friend Wang Kaixuan (Fatty Wang) with a professor-led archaeological team into the Taklamakan Desert in search of the ruins of Jingjue, an ancient kingdom, and into the underground \"Ghost Cave\" beneath it[4](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html). In the series' frame story, Shirley Yang is an archaeologist who grew up in the United States and returns to China after her father disappears while exploring tombs[9](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6413278/). The first four books of the series, including this one, went through a completion and rewrite cycle, and character growth across them is not strongly marked[10](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_7208994).\n\n## Production\n\n**Assembling the team.** In July 2015 the rights holder Mengxiang Pictures (梦想者影业) approached Penguin Pictures, which bought the web-series adaptation rights to all eight Ghost Blows Out the Light novels[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). The casting of Jin Dong began at a dinner late in 2015, when the actor, then rising on the strength of Noon Sunshine's *The Disguiser*, asked to be considered for Hu Ba Yi; he then suggested Noon Sunshine as the production company. Director Kong Sheng, whose team is known for a realist style, had read only *The Ancient City of Jingjue* among the eight novels and wanted to adapt it[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). Screenwriter Bai Yicong, who had worked on *The Lost Tomb* and produced *The Mystic Nine*, wrote the first draft, which was then polished jointly with Kong Sheng's team[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html).\n\n**Schedule and locations.** The project started on January 1, 2016 with the goal of airing within the year. Filming began on March 26, 2016 and took 87 shooting days, 172 days from preparation to wrap, leaving just over three months for post-production[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). The crew, which reached more than 300 people at peak, moved between Beijing, Dunhuang, Hami, and Hengdian, with four separate locations around Hami alone[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). The opening episode's Sino-Vietnamese border war sequence, first planned for a Beijing studio backlot, had to be moved to a Zhejiang base where tropical vegetation was planted[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html).\n\n**Effects.** The production used practical effects combined with computer graphics. The red hou (红犼), a corpse-like monster from the novel, was played on set by the basketball player [Sun Mingming](https://www.edgepedia.org/sun-mingming), who needed four to five hours in makeup each day and two hours to remove it; an earlier fully computer-generated version had proved both difficult and unconvincing[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). Seven visual effects teams totaling 287 people worked on the show, each spending about three months, producing 13 large 3D characters and 13 3D models, including the giant salamander of the snow mountain scenes and the desert army ants[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). The art department, led by Shao Changyong, estimated its workload at three times that of a feature film; the Liao-Jin tomb murals in episode 14 were painted from period research, scanned, and reproduced at scale with two to three rounds of color grading[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html).\n\nProducer Hou Hongliang said the team had underestimated the difficulty of a project so dependent on effects, and that the budget of 5 million yuan per episode grew increasingly tight[7](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1461639). Jiemian reported the total cost at about 80 million yuan, about 4 million yuan per episode[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html).\n\n## Release and reception\n\nThe series launched on Tencent Video on December 19, 2016 with six episodes[4](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html). Within 12 hours those episodes reached 170 million views and the show topped Baidu's television search rankings[4](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html). After the first six episodes, Douban users rated it 8.6 out of 10[6](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c22219-28971062.html). By late January 2017, Jiemian reported a Douban score of 8.3 and monthly views above 2.5 billion[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html). On IMDb the series holds a 7.1/10 rating from a few hundred users[11](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6413278/ratings/).\n\nReviewers singled out fidelity to the novel. Comments such as \"extremely faithful to the original\" and \"finally real tomb raiding\" circulated widely, and the series was credited with lifting domestic tomb-raiding dramas above the poor reputation left by earlier adaptations[6](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c22219-28971062.html). The story follows the novel closely, from a Liao-Jin dynasty tomb to the Kunlun mountains and the desert search for Jingjue, and restores the novel's creatures and human-sacrifice imagery without softening the premise[6](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c22219-28971062.html). Some critics noted that the heavy use of non-linear narration and flashbacks in the early episodes could confuse viewers who had not read the book[4](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html).\n\nCommercially, the show was profitable for Penguin Pictures, with advertising, including mid-episode creative insert ads, providing most revenue ahead of membership fees[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html).\n\n## The film adaptation and the lawsuit\n\nA different adaptation of the same novel reached cinemas first. *Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe* (九层妖塔), directed by Lu Chuan, was released in late September 2015, more than nine years after the novel began serialization online; the Wenhui Bao report gives the release date as September 30, 2015, while the National Copyright Administration account gives September 23, 2015[8](https://whb-oss.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/zhuzhan/kandian/20150917/37526.html) • [1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html). The film had been widely expected to be unadaptable, and its changes proved controversial: the story background was reset to an alien civilization, and the male and female leads became descendants of superpowered aliens, which angered many fans of the novels[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html).\n\nOn August 8, 2019, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court ruled on Zhang Muye's appeal against China Film Co., Ltd., Mengxiang Pictures, and Le Vision Pictures, with Lu Chuan as a first-instance defendant. The court found that the adaptation infringed Zhang Muye's rights of attribution and integrity of the work, ordered the defendants to stop disseminating the film, to publicly apologize and eliminate the effects of the infringement, and to pay him 50,000 yuan in damages for emotional distress[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html). A lawyer for some of the defendants said they would apply for a retrial[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html). Zhang Muye said after the ruling that adaptation disputes arise partly from differing understandings of what adaptation requires, and that all parties should respect the literary work, the audience, and the industry[1](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html).\n\n## Place in the series\n\nThe web series became the first entry in a continuing franchise. By 2023, the seasonal series had brought five of the novels to the screen in order of premiere, *The Ancient City of Jingjue*, *The Wrath of Xiangxi* (怒晴湘西), *The Lost Labyrinth* ([龙岭迷窟](https://www.edgepedia.org/candle-in-the-tomb-the-lost-caverns)), *[The Worm Valley](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-worm-valley)* (云南虫谷), and *Kunlun Shrine* (昆仑神宫), with the main team stabilized as director Fei Zhenxiang, supervisor Guan Hu, and leads Pan Yueming (Hu Ba Yi), Zhang Yuqi (Shirley Yang), and Jiang Chao (Wang Kaixuan)[2](https://m.fx361.com/news/2023/0218/23629764.html). Together with *The Lost Tomb* by Nanpai Sanshu, the Ghost Blows Out the Light adaptations drove a wave of \"tomb raiding plus adventure plus suspense\" web dramas, drawing on traditional Chinese texts such as the *Zhouyi* and the *Zangjing* for their tomb-locating lore[2](https://m.fx361.com/news/2023/0218/23629764.html).\n\n## References\n\n1. [《九层妖塔》终审被判侵权，部分被告表示将申请再审, 国家版权局 (National Copyright Administration of China), 2019](https://www.ncac.gov.cn/xxfb/yjdt/201908/t20190813_49593.html)\n2. [齐维恒 (2023). 跨媒介叙事：网络小说改编网络剧的创作探讨. 长江小说鉴赏 2023年24期](https://m.fx361.com/news/2023/0218/23629764.html)\n3. [鬼吹灯之精绝古城, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/candle-in-the-tomb)\n4. [《精绝古城》开播点击火爆 靳东版胡八一缺点\"痞气\", 人民网, 2016-12-22](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1222/c40606-28969369.html)\n5. [下一场战争的起点：谁在制造《鬼吹灯》？, 界面新闻·三声, 2017-01-26](https://www.jiemian.com/article/1089771.html)\n6. [网剧版《鬼吹灯》获赞\"良心真盗墓\", 北京日报 via 人民网, 2016-12-23](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c22219-28971062.html)\n7. [靳东：《鬼吹灯》是一部值得玩命去拍的剧, 澎湃新闻](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1461639)\n8. [王彦 (2015). \"不可改编\"小说拍成电影 《九层妖塔》月底上映, 文汇报](https://whb-oss.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/zhuzhan/kandian/20150917/37526.html)\n9. [Candle in the Tomb (TV Series 2016–2017), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6413278/)\n10. [\"长线\"摸金, 澎湃新闻·湃客](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_7208994)\n11. [Candle in the Tomb (TV Series 2016–2017) - Ratings - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6413278/ratings/)\n12. [http://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c40606-28971033.html](http://media.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1223/c40606-28971033.html)\n13. [https://www.bang.cn/article/176616.html](https://www.bang.cn/article/176616.html)\n14. 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Edgepedia Community License 1.0.", "speakable": "Candle in the Tomb: The Ancient City of Jingjue is a 2016 Tencent Video web series adapted from Tianxia Bachang's novel, starring Jin Dong and Joe Chen, directed by Kong Sheng, praised for fidelity, and later central to a copyright ruling against the film Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe." }