# Sweet Tai Chi (淑女飘飘拳)
**Sweet Tai Chi** (淑女飘飘拳; Japanese release title お嬢さま飄々拳) is a 2019 Chinese youth romance web drama built around tai chi, directed by Luo Ande (罗安得) and starring Bi Wenjun (毕雯珺) and [Sun Qian](https://www.edgepedia.org/sun-qian) (孙千). It premiered exclusively on Youku on December 25, 2019, and ran for 24 episodes of about 45 minutes each[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%B7%91%E5%A5%B3%E9%A3%98%E9%A3%98%E6%8B%B3/23126888?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [2](https://watch.plex.tv/zh/show/sweet-tai-chi?context.unit=HE). The series adapts the 2008 novel of the same name by Tian Yi You Feng (天衣有风), part of the CMFU Academy series on Qidian Girls' Network, and was billed as China's first "new guofeng" (new Chinese-style) youth idol drama[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html) • [4](https://ent.rednet.cn/c/2018/11/05/4764992.htm).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original run | December 25, 2019, Youku exclusive; 24 episodes, about 45 minutes each[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%B7%91%E5%A5%B3%E9%A3%98%E9%A3%98%E6%8B%B3/23126888?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [2](https://watch.plex.tv/zh/show/sweet-tai-chi?context.unit=HE) |
| Source | 2008 novel by Tian Yi You Feng, one of six novels in the CMFU Academy series[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html) • [4](https://ent.rednet.cn/c/2018/11/05/4764992.htm) |
| Production | Youku, Yuewen Pictures, and Dada Pictures; first live-action adaptation of the CMFU Academy series[5](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html) |
| Main cast | Bi Wenjun as Wei Chu, Sun Qian as Feng Piao Piao, with Ding Zeren, Jia Zhengyu, Zhang Xinyue, and Sato Kanta[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%B7%91%E5%A5%B3%E9%A3%98%E9%A3%98%E6%8B%B3/23126888?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |
| Filming | Entirely in Chengdu, November 2018 to January 2019, including Dujiangyan, Qingcheng Mountain, and Chongzhou[5](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html) |
| Martial arts guidance | Tai chi consultant Ye Yongxiang, sixth-generation inheritor of Yang-style tai chi; action director Chen Shaohua, who worked on the film *Kung Fu*[6](https://www.sohu.com/a/363239370_120396407) |
| Reception | Youku heat peaked at 9277; the official hashtag passed 530 million reads; final online score 6.9[7](https://yule.360.com/detail/621074) • [8](https://k.sina.cn/article_1751106815_685fc4ff00100jrsf.html?from=ent&subch=film) |
## Spoilers
### Premise and plot
The story is set at CMFU Academy, a fictional school for elite students in culture and sports, where the tai chi department has declined through years of factional infighting[2](https://watch.plex.tv/zh/show/sweet-tai-chi?context.unit=HE). Feng Piao Piao (孙千), a girl who loves tai chi culture, intends to apply to the tai chi department but misses the entrance exam because of Wei Chu (毕雯珺), and settles for the calligraphy and painting department of the liberal arts college[9](https://www.tvmao.com/drama/YmZrI11i). Through a series of misunderstandings she acquires the title of "Shangxiang Lady" and becomes the focus of campus attention[10](https://ycpai.ycwb.com/ycppad/content/2019-12/25/content_598483.html).
The drama opens with a "beauty saves the hero" scene: Feng Piao Piao defeats the seven members of the boxing club to rescue Wei Chu, tearing a corner off his shirt to mask her face so her ladylike image survives, and demands he keep her martial skill secret[11](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/157724425415340.html) • [12](https://m.tvmao.com/drama/YmZrI11i/episode). Wei Chu, the heir and acting head of the Wei family's tai chi lineage, does not cooperate, and the two become sparring partners in both romance and martial arts[11](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/157724425415340.html). He takes her as his student, she trains for a place at the national martial arts tournament, and under their joint effort the tai chi department revives and wins the tournament championship[10](https://ycpai.ycwb.com/ycppad/content/2019-12/25/content_598483.html) • [13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX6okWuwj3s).
**Supporting characters** map onto tai chi's real family lineages. Chen Bing (丁泽仁) is the steady heir of Chen-style tai chi and Yang Ningxue (王芊雯) the proud heir of Yang-style; the two, betrothed since childhood, spar often yet know nothing of each other's school's inner techniques[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html). Bai Haiyang (贾征宇) is the inheritor of the hidden Bai style and head of the tai chi department, and Tan Lin (漆培鑫) is the scheming head of the boxing club[12](https://m.tvmao.com/drama/YmZrI11i/episode) • [2](https://watch.plex.tv/zh/show/sweet-tai-chi?context.unit=HE). The antagonist Fang Zhaotian, once expelled from the Baqi Gate, hides in Southeast Asia, blends several boxing styles, and returns to China to scheme for a martial arts championship[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html).
## Themes: tradition and youth
The [People's Daily](https://www.edgepedia.org/peoples-daily) commentary on the finale reads the drama as an argument about old and new. In Wei Chu's view, tai chi withers because the Wei, Bai, Yang, and Chen families guard their secrets behind door-keeping prejudice, while years earlier the Baqi Gate kidnapped the most talented disciples of all four families, nearly destroying tai chi entirely[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html). Students outside the family lines, treated as outsiders, cannot learn the essence of tai chi and only go through the motions, while the department shrinks toward closure[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html). The drama's answer is fusion rather than confrontation: change in the story works like tai chi itself, with each side containing the other, instead of a fight that ruins both[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html).
A second thread is authenticity. Feng Piao Piao is genuine and warm by nature, but because she won her admission by accidentally bringing her grandfather's painting to the exam, she must live behind a false persona, unable to read her beloved comics openly or even eat normally in the cafeteria; this falseness blocks her progress in both painting and tai chi until Wei Chu trains her true self out[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html).
## Production
Yuewen Group, Youku, and Dada Pictures announced the production at a launch ceremony on November 5, 2018, with the Taiwanese director Luo Ande attached[4](https://ent.rednet.cn/c/2018/11/05/4764992.htm). Filming began in Chengdu in November 2018 and wrapped in January 2019; locations included [Dujiangyan](https://www.edgepedia.org/dujiangyan), Qingcheng Mountain, Chongzhou, and the Sichuan International Biaobang Vocational College, while the characters' dormitory was a full set built in an old factory near Xindu[5](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html). The producer said Chengdu was chosen after scouting nationwide because the drama needed beautiful scenery of forest, flowing water, and bamboo together with deep tai chi culture[5](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html).
The martial arts content received professional backing. Ye Yongxiang, a sixth-generation inheritor of Yang-style tai chi, served as the drama's tai chi consultant and coached the actors so their movements carried both grace and force; the action direction was by Chen Shaohua, who had worked on [Stephen Chow](https://www.edgepedia.org/stephen-chow)'s film *Kung Fu*[6](https://www.sohu.com/a/363239370_120396407) • [3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html). Reviewers credited this guidance for fight scenes that flowed well and for cultural detail beyond the tai chi itself, such as references to [Liu Xie](https://www.edgepedia.org/liu-xie)'s *Wenxin Diaolong* and [Shen Zhou](https://www.edgepedia.org/shen-zhou)'s painting *Lushan Gao*[6](https://www.sohu.com/a/363239370_120396407).
## Reception
The series drew a large young audience on Youku. Within its first week it reached first place on Youku's web drama heat ranking with a peak approaching 9000, and it placed in the top ten of the Datawin TV drama prosperity index for four consecutive days, peaking at second[14](https://yule.360.com/detail/616163). Over its run its daily Youku heat stayed in the top three of the web drama chart, reaching a historical high of 9277; the official hashtag #淑女飘飘拳# passed 530 million reads and the topic #毕雯珺 卫楚# passed 430 million[7](https://yule.360.com/detail/621074).
Critical response was mixed. A Sina Entertainment review at the finale gave the drama a final online score of 6.9 and praised its fresh premise, sets, and costumes, while noting that the adaptation lost the novel's fine-grained characterization and that some of the three side romances were poorly connected[8](https://k.sina.cn/article_1751106815_685fc4ff00100jrsf.html?from=ent&subch=film). A Sohu review found the dialogue and plot logic weak, citing continuity errors in the first episode, but judged the drama rich in cultural content[6](https://www.sohu.com/a/363239370_120396407). Another Sina piece, published after three episodes, called the story dull and the romance un-sweet despite strong early ratings momentum[15](https://k.sina.cn/article_2212667713_83e2a14100100k582.html). Viewers on Douban praised the Chengdu-area scenery enough to plan trips to the filming locations[5](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html).
## Context in the CMFU Academy series
The source novel is one of six works in the CMFU Academy series, in which different web novelists set stories at the same fictional university; two of the others, *Gentlemen Fence* (绅士击击剑) and *Prince Billiards* (王子碰碰球), had already received animated adaptations before this drama[4](https://ent.rednet.cn/c/2018/11/05/4764992.htm). Sweet Tai Chi was the first of the series to be adapted as live action[5](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html). Tian Yi You Feng's better-known work *Feng Qiu Huang* (凤求凰) had been adapted for the screen shortly before[3](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html).
The drama was also part of Yuewen Group's broader 2018–2019 push to adapt its web novel properties, following titles such as *[Martial Universe](https://www.edgepedia.org/martial-universe)*, *Fighter of the Destiny*, and *The Novel's Extra*-style fantasy IPs, with the CMFU series positioned as a youth line built on traditional [Chinese culture](https://www.edgepedia.org/chinese-culture), sports, romance, and competition[4](https://ent.rednet.cn/c/2018/11/05/4764992.htm).
## References
1. [淑女飘飘拳（2019年毕雯珺、孙千主演的网络剧）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%B7%91%E5%A5%B3%E9%A3%98%E9%A3%98%E6%8B%B3/23126888?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
2. [淑女飘飘拳 (2019), Plex](https://watch.plex.tv/zh/show/sweet-tai-chi?context.unit=HE)
3. [《淑女飘飘拳》收官：在太极中碰撞的传统与青春, 人民网上海频道 (2020-01-20)](https://sh.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0120/c350122-33733255.html)
4. [阅文自制《淑女飘飘拳》官宣开机 国内首部新古风青春偶像剧安排上了, 红网娱乐 (2018-11-05)](https://ent.rednet.cn/c/2018/11/05/4764992.htm)
5. [网剧《淑女飘飘拳》开播，片中"成都气质"吸引网友想来打卡, 红星新闻 (2019-12-26)](https://static.cdsb.com/micropub/Articles/201912/cdd44d436ea69bca883959054bd08e45.html)
6. [《淑女飘飘拳》经不起推敲，台词与剧情不佳，但颇具文化内涵, 搜狐 (2019-12-27)](https://www.sohu.com/a/363239370_120396407)
7. [《淑女飘飘拳》今日会员收官 毕雯珺孙千花式撒糖获封"暖冬甜剧", 360娱乐 (2020)](https://yule.360.com/detail/621074)
8. [《淑女飘飘拳》完美收官，毕雯珺演绎热血少年，荧屏处女作6.9分, 新浪娱乐 (2020-01-16)](https://k.sina.cn/article_1751106815_685fc4ff00100jrsf.html?from=ent&subch=film)
9. [淑女飘飘拳剧情介绍（1-24全集）大结局, 电视猫](https://www.tvmao.com/drama/YmZrI11i)
10. [《淑女飘飘拳》今日上线，毕雯珺孙千弘扬太极文化, 羊城派 (2019-12-25)](https://ycpai.ycwb.com/ycppad/content/2019-12/25/content_598483.html)
11. [《淑女飘飘拳》上线，毕雯珺孙千弘扬太极文化, 新京报 (2019-12-25)](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/157724425415340.html)
12. [淑女飘飘拳第1集分集剧情, 电视猫](https://m.tvmao.com/drama/YmZrI11i/episode)
13. [我们是冠军！太极系获得全国武道大会冠军《淑女飘飘拳》, 捷成华视偶像剧场, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX6okWuwj3s)
14. [《淑女飘飘拳》首周告捷，毕雯珺演绎"高配学长"俘获少女心, 360娱乐 (2020-01-02)](https://yule.360.com/detail/616163)
15. [刚开播就被吹上天，但这部新剧看了三集就完全崩溃, 新浪娱乐 (2019-12)](https://k.sina.cn/article_2212667713_83e2a14100100k582.html)
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