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| Genre: | Historical fiction Time travel Romance | ||||||||
| Director: | Jeffrey Chiang | ||||||||
| Creative Director: | Stanley Tong | ||||||||
| Starring: | Hu Ge Michelle Bai Chang Shih Ren Quan Zhang Meng Li Yixiang Chen Zihan Tan Kai Allen Ting Jin Sha | ||||||||
| Opentheme: | Time Travel by Zhang Meng and Wang Haixiang | ||||||||
| Endtheme: | Beautiful Myth performed by Hu Ge and Michelle Bai | ||||||||
| Country: | China | ||||||||
| Language: | Mandarin | ||||||||
| Num Episodes: | 50 | ||||||||
| Executive Producer: | Wu Yueming | ||||||||
| Producer: | Jackie Chan | ||||||||
| Editor: | CCTV | ||||||||
| Location: | China | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 45 minutes per episode | ||||||||
| Company: | Emperor Entertainment Group | ||||||||
| Network: | CCTV-8 | ||||||||
| Budget: | 40 million yuan | ||||||||
| Related: | The Myth (film) Kung Fu Yoga |
The Myth is a 2010 Chinese television series based on the 2005 Hong Kong film of the same title. Jackie Chan, who starred in the original film, was credited as the producer for the series, while Stanley Tong, who directed the film, was the creative director for the series. The series was first aired on CCTV-8 in China in January 2010.
By coincidence, Yi Xiaochuan finds a tiger pendant which sears a mark onto his chest when he wears it on his neck. Meanwhile, his brother, Yi Dachuan, discovers a 2,000-year-old treasure box at an excavation site. Xiaochuan unlocks the box with his pendant and opens a time portal by accident. Unknown to everyone else, he is transported back in time to the Qin dynasty together with Gao Yao, his girlfriend's brother.
Back in the Qin dynasty, Xiaochuan meets Xiang Yu and Liu Bang and becomes sworn brothers with them. He also encounters Meng Tian, who insists that Xiaochuan is his long-lost younger brother Meng Yi because the mark of the pendant belongs to the Meng family. While serving as a general of the Qin Empire, Xiaochuan meets Yushu, a princess of the tribal kingdom Tu'an. They develop romantic feelings but cannot be together as Yushu has become the Qin emperor's concubine in exchange for peace between her kingdom and the Qin Empire. Xiaochuan is unwilling to give up and he secretly meets Yushu inside the palace.
On the other hand, Gao Yao is separated from Xiaochuan and sent to the palace, where he is forcefully castrated and made to serve the royal family as a eunuch. After enduring humiliation and bullying, he earns the favour of the emperor through his culinary skills and rises through the ranks. Now known as Zhao Gao, he starts taking revenge on those who were responsible for his plight. As he becomes increasingly influential in the imperial court, he becomes corrupted by power and starts turning against his old buddy Xiaochuan, whom he now sees as a threat to his plan to dominate the empire.
In the present-day, Dachuan, Gao Lan (Xiaochuan's girlfriend), and Dachuan's parents, work closely to open the treasure box. Following clues from the box's engravings and a map, they embark on a treasure hunt to find the five secret keys to unlock the box. However, a mysterious masked man in black is also after the box's contents and he sends his henchmen to harass them.
| Year | Award | Category | Winner |
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| 2010 | China Student Television Festival | Most Popular Actor | Hu Ge |
| Most Popular Fantasy Drama | The Myth | ||
| Best Actor (legend) | Hu Ge |