| Lady Wu: The First Empress | |
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| Also known as | The Great Empress Empress Wu Meiniang |
| Traditional Chinese | 至尊紅顏 |
| Simplified Chinese | 至尊红颜 |
| Literal meaning | Honorable Beauty |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhìzūn Hóngyán |
| Genre | Historical fiction, romance |
| Written by | Shan Zhe |
| Directed by | Hao Ran |
| Starring | Alyssa Chia Vincent Zhao Bao Jianfeng Kou Zhenhai Sun Xing Zhang Tong Yang Tongshu |
| Opening theme | Zhizun Hongyan (至尊紅顏) performed by Zhang Kefan |
| Ending theme | Yiwang (遺忘) performed by Lin Chunru |
| Country of origin | China |
| Original language | Mandarin |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Han Sanping Zhang Zhe Wang Zhiqiang |
| Producers | Yu Gang Wang Yi Song Zhenshan Wu Hongliang |
| Running time | 45 minutes per episode |
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| Original release | |
| Network | CTS (Taiwan) |
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Lady Wu: The First Empress, also known as The Great Empress or Empress Wu Meiniang, is a 2003 Chinese television series based on the biography of Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress Regnant. The series was first broadcast on CTS in Taiwan in 2003 under the Chinese title 武媚娘傳奇 (Wu Meiniang Chuanqi; literally: The Legend of Wu Meiniang).