Chinese Paladin is a 2005 Chinese fantasy television series adapted from the popular Taiwanese adventure role-playing video game The Legend of Sword and Fairy by Softstar Entertainment. The series was produced by Tangren Media and Chinese Entertainment Shanghai and starred cast members from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It was first broadcast in January 2005 on CTV and CBG in Taiwan and Mainland China respectively. The drama was hugely popular in China and achieved high ratings of 2.7.

The Legend of Sword and Fairy, also known colloquially as Sword and Fairy 1 (仙劍一), is a fantasy adventure role-playing video game developed by the Taiwanese game company Softstar Entertainment, incorporating elements of wuxia, shenmo and xianxia and heavy inspirations from traditional Chinese mythology. Initially released in 1995 for the MS-DOS platform, the game was later re-released for Windows 95 in 1997, for Sega Saturn in 1999, and as a re-rendered version for Windows 98/Windows XP in 2001.