{ "id": "epw975pvev", "slug": "strange-tales-of-tang-dynasty-iii", "title": "Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III (唐朝诡事录之长安)", "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-sp-to-z", "label": "Titles Sp to Z", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials.alpha-sp-to-z" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials", "label": "China · 2021 and later: East Asian web and streaming serials", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.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.t2021", "label": "China · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2021.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.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III: To Chang'an (唐朝诡事录之长安) is the third season of iQiyi's Tang-dynasty zhiguai detective series, a 40-episode 2025 drama starring Yang Xuwen and Yang Zhigang, set in High Tang Chang'an with eight strange cases and a Douban score of 8.0.", "snippet": "Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III: To Chang'an (唐朝诡事录之长安) is the third season of iQiyi's Tang-dynasty zhiguai detective series, a 40-episode 2025 drama starring Yang Xuwen and Yang Zhigang, set in High Tang Chang'an with eight strange cases and a Douban score of 8.0.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.east_asian_web_streaming_serials.alpha-sp-to-z", "markdown": "# Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III (唐朝诡事录之长安)\n\n**Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III: To Chang'an** (唐朝诡事录之长安) is a 2025 Chinese costume suspense detective drama, the third installment of the *Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty* ([唐朝诡事录](https://www.edgepedia.org/horror-stories-of-tang-dynasty)) series. Produced by iQiyi with Changxin Media, it premiered on November 8, 2025 as an iQiyi exclusive with a simultaneous evening broadcast on Beijing TV, and ran for 40 episodes.[1](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548) • [2](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/425367-) The series continues the investigations of the detective duo Lu Lingfeng and Su Wuming, this time set in the Tang capital of Chang'an during the early High Tang.[3](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20251212/A11.pdf)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Premiere | November 8, 2025, iQiyi exclusive streaming with Beijing TV airing nightly at 19:30[1](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548) |\n| Format | 40-episode costume suspense unit detective drama, third in the series[2](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/425367-) • [4](https://www.iqiyi.com/v_20srzb2qryw.html) |\n| Key creatives | Chief director Ju Xingmao; supervisors Guo Jingyu and Bai Shan; writer Wei Fenghua, author of the source novel[1](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548) |\n| Lead cast | Yang Xuwen (Lu Lingfeng), Yang Zhigang (Su Wuming), Gao Siwen, Chen Chuang, Sun Xuening, Shi Yue'anxin[1](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548) |\n| Setting | Xiantian second year, early High Tang; the team returns to Chang'an escorting golden peaches sent by the Kingdom of Kang[5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIL5Buge1ok) |\n| Reception | Douban opening score 8.1, settling at 8.0; 1.456 billion cumulative views; topped the daily effective-play chart 23 times[6](https://www.gamersky.com/news/202512/2052503.shtml) |\n| Registration | Registered in August 2024 as a 40-episode ancient-legend web series under Beijing Changxin Film and Television Media[7](https://oss.hbnavip.com/file/20241008/7iYrGX4dYugT6UM2NAocaMG1Uql2o6kl0e1P8pi0.pdf) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and structure\n\nThe story is set in the summer–autumn transition of the second year of the Xiantian era. Although the new emperor has ascended the throne, the [Grand Princess](https://www.edgepedia.org/grand-princess)'s faction has grown stronger and the political situation in Chang'an is unstable. Lu Lingfeng (Yang Xuwen), a mid-ranking officer of the Jinwu Guard, and Su Wuming (Yang Zhigang), a disciple of [Di Renjie](https://www.edgepedia.org/di-renjie)'s investigative tradition, are ordered to return to the capital escorting golden peaches presented by the Kingdom of Kang, accompanied by their team of Pei Xijun, Fei Jishi, Cherry, and Xue Huan.[5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIL5Buge1ok) • [8](https://wmdb.tv/zh/movies/69fc2121a4b5a8856b25b2e9)\n\nLike its predecessors, the season is built as an anthology of eight cases, including *The Golden Peaches of Kang*, *The Cries of Chengfo Temple*, *The Traces of Baize*, *The Ouroboros*, *The Shop of Solace*, and a finale centered on the Shengshi polo match, in which a plot to bomb the polo grounds unfolds during a tournament before the emperor.[5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIL5Buge1ok) • [9](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_lx3ojrnwbx.html) A distinguishing feature of the third season is that the court struggle between Emperor Xuanzong and the Grand Princess, which in the first two seasons stayed in the background, moves to the foreground and directly drives the plots; the case *The Golden Peaches of Kang*, for example, layers a monstrous-bird mystery over a coup plot and a counter-scheme.[10](https://www.zgwypl.com/content/details13_446841.html)\n\n### The franchise after Chang'an\n\nThe third season confirmed the franchise's unusual sequel record: all three seasons have scored above 8.0 on Douban, and the second season, *Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II: To the West* (2024), won Best Series at the Asian Academy Creative Awards.[10](https://www.zgwypl.com/content/details13_446841.html) • [3](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20251212/A11.pdf) The next installment is not a full-length series but a mid-length drama, *Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty: To the South Sea* (唐朝诡事录之南海), shot together with *Chang'an* at one quarter of its length; a short-form spin-off, *Tang Gui Qi Tan*, was also scheduled on iQiyi.[3](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20251212/A11.pdf) • [23](https://www.cnsa.cn/module/download/down.jsp?colID=2019&i_ID=48047)\n\n## Adaptation approach\n\nThe series derives from Wei Fenghua's 2013 novel *Tang Chao Gui Shi Lu*, an annotated survey of [Tang dynasty](https://www.edgepedia.org/tang-dynasty) zhiguai (records of the strange) notebooks rather than a conventional novel with complete characters and plots, so each screen adaptation is substantially an original script built from that material.[11](https://static.nfnews.com/content/202211/13/c7063756.html) • [12](https://epaper.guilinlife.com/glwbpc/glwb/20250303/13.pdf) Wei has described his method as a \"second-floor aesthetic\": above the ground floor of the strict historical drama and the third floor of fully fantastical xianxia, the series grows suspense stories with supernatural coloring out of real Tang history and social detail.[13](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_28411746)\n\nUnderlining this approach, individual case elements such as the man-faced flower, the udumbara bird, haunted paintings, and various illusions are drawn from Tang zhiguai notebooks, while the production team consulted historical materials at the Shaanxi History Museum and the Famen Temple in Xi'an and studied reconstructed Tang architecture in Shanxi.[3](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20251212/A11.pdf) • [1](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548) Producer Wang Bing said the choice of Chang'an as the season's single setting followed from its mix of imperial grandeur and street-level everyday life, which the team treated as the fullest stage for Tang culture.[14](https://news.bjd.com.cn/2026/02/04/11565590.shtml)\n\n## Production\n\nThe drama was registered in August 2024 as a 40-episode ancient-legend web series under Beijing Changxin Film and Television Media.[7](https://oss.hbnavip.com/file/20241008/7iYrGX4dYugT6UM2NAocaMG1Uql2o6kl0e1P8pi0.pdf) The production retained the principal cast of the first two seasons, with Yue Lina and Liu Zhiyang in special guest roles.[1](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548) iQiyi's 2025–2026 slate listed the series as the third work of the hit original franchise, keeping the original team and the series' eerie style, with Tang zhiguai and [Tang chuanqi](https://www.edgepedia.org/tang-chuanqi) literature as its thread around a Chang'an at once splendid and sinister.[15](https://pages.iqiyi.com/m/zbs/2025iqiyiijoydj.html)\n\n## Reception\n\n**Strong opening.** Pre-release reservations exceeded 4 million, and the premiere drew an iQiyi first-day heat value of 8850, a platform record for a drama's first day; the series broke the 10,000 heat mark on its fourth day, the fastest for an iQiyi costume detective drama.[16](https://wb.gywb.cn/epaper/gywb/res/2025-11/12/6/gywbgywb202511126.pdf) • [17](https://lmtw.com/mzw/content/detail/id/248360/keyword_id/-1) Douban opened at 8.1, among the highest scores for a 2025 Chinese drama at that point, and settled at 8.0 by the finale.[6](https://www.gamersky.com/news/202512/2052503.shtml) • [18](https://k.sina.cn/article_7295511715_1b2d8aca302001ie4q.html?from=ent&subch=oent) The series topped the daily effective-play chart 23 times and closed with 1.456 billion cumulative views, alongside a Weibo score of 9.4 and more than 407 trending-search appearances.[6](https://www.gamersky.com/news/202512/2052503.shtml)\n\n**Awards.** At the \"Yingshi Bangyang 2025\" (影视榜样 2025 年度总评榜) year-end evaluation, hosted by Beijing Daily media group under the Beijing Radio and Television Bureau, the drama won the Innovative Series title and producer Wang Bing was named Best Producer for the franchise.[14](https://news.bjd.com.cn/2026/02/04/11565590.shtml) On August 25, 2026 it was nominated for Best Television Series at the 33rd China TV Golden Eagle Award.[19](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/7397632813488996364)\n\n**Divided verdicts.** Commentary split on the season's craft. *Guangming Daily* praised it for reviving the strange world of Tang notebooks such as the *Youyang Zazu* in unit-drama form, while also noting that the deduction in several cases lacked rigorous logical development and that some characters were not fully rounded.[20](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-02-04/doc-inhkqwsx3915418.shtml) Viewer criticism focused on court-intrigue scenes crowding out the case-solving, reversals driven by culprits confessing, and a sense that the season fell short of the first two; supporters highlighted the production values, historical detail, and the enlarged political canvas.[21](https://post.smzdm.com/p/aggr92kd/) • [22](https://piaofang.maoyan.com/tv/1491930/review)\n\n## References\n\n1. [《唐朝诡事录之长安》开播，观诗剑盛唐勘云谲诡案, The Paper](https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31922548)\n2. [唐朝诡事录, TheTVDB](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/425367-)\n3. [齐鲁晚报数字报 A11 版（2025-12-12）](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20251212/A11.pdf)\n4. [唐朝诡事录之长安, iQiyi](https://www.iqiyi.com/v_20srzb2qryw.html)\n5. [《唐朝诡事录之长安》八案追凶特辑, iQiyi on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIL5Buge1ok)\n6. [豆瓣8.0分！《唐朝诡事录之长安》有效播放榜23次登顶收官, 游民星空](https://www.gamersky.com/news/202512/2052503.shtml)\n7. [2024年8月全国重点网络剧拍摄备案公示](https://oss.hbnavip.com/file/20241008/7iYrGX4dYugT6UM2NAocaMG1Uql2o6kl0e1P8pi0.pdf)\n8. [唐朝诡事录之长安 (2025), WMDB](https://wmdb.tv/zh/movies/69fc2121a4b5a8856b25b2e9)\n9. [唐朝诡事录之长安 分集剧情, iQiyi](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_lx3ojrnwbx.html)\n10. [黄钟军：加速时代如何打造\"长寿\"剧集, 中国文艺评论网](https://www.zgwypl.com/content/details13_446841.html)\n11. [《唐朝诡事录》是怎么火的？对话魏风华, 南方人物周刊](https://static.nfnews.com/content/202211/13/c7063756.html)\n12. 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