Hello guys! Glad to find some discussion about QZY in English and see so many international admirers of his out here. Boy it sure took me a while to read all 28 pages of comments so far in this thread, I'm amazed that some of you have been following his work since back in 2004.
It's my first post in this forum so let me start with a bit of a self introduction. I was born in mainland China, came to U.S. at age 16, but has now spent more years in this country than in China (you do the calculations). I found this place rather easily by searching for the term "Qiao Zhen Yu" on yahoo. I fell for this young actor several months back when I watched the Snow Flower (XHNSL) series on line. I had actually noticed and liked him previously in Story of a Noble Family (Jin Fen Shi Jia) and Seven Swordsmen of Mount Heaven (Qi Jian Xia Tian Shan) but did not really get hooked until Snow Flower, and since then I couldn't stop chasing after him from one TV series to another. So I watched Spirit of the Sword, followed by Book and Sword (yes I think I know everything there is to know about swords after watching these shows). I even watched Seven Swordsmen a second time to refresh my memory about all of his parts in it. In a rush of adoring madness I wrote a 3000-word-plus piece about him entitled "Cherish that Innocence in Your Eyes -- Impressions of Xiao Qiao" and posted it on both his official site forum and his baidu forum, which marked my official entrance into QZY fanhood.
As a new fan, I am surely not as knowledgeable as dogwood who is a moderator on QZY's official site. But I thought I'd simply put up some of my favorite pictures, I apologize if you have seen them before.
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