Peacocks Fly Southeast: Tang Wei and Qin Hao in 2027

What is confirmed

iQIYI's 2026-2027 content presentation included Peacocks Fly Southeast, a costume drama scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. Tang Wei and Qin Hao star, and Xin Shuang directs. The project is described as a new interpretation of a classic Chinese story rather than a straightforward adaptation.

The original story

The title comes from a famous Han dynasty narrative poem about a young couple whose marriage is destroyed by the husband's mother. The wife is sent back to her family, both lovers are pressured into new matches, and the poem ends in mutual suicide and a pair of peacocks flying away together. It is one of the foundational tragedies of Chinese literature, and it has been adapted for opera, film and television many times.

Why the team is notable

Xin Shuang directed The Bad Kids, a crime drama praised for its visual control and its unsentimental view of family. Tang Wei and Qin Hao are film actors with international reputations. Putting that team on a classic costume tragedy suggests iQIYI wants a literary event rather than a romance serial.

What to expect

A 2027 Q1 slot implies the production is far enough along to be scheduled, but iQIYI has not published an episode count or a trailer. The source material is short, so the adaptation will have to expand the world around the couple: family politics, local customs and the economic pressures that made the marriage impossible.

Why it matters for overseas viewers

This is one of the few 2027 titles with a director and cast already known to international festival audiences. If you liked the moody realism of The Long Night, this is the same production culture applied to a historical story.