Subscribe to free Email Newsletter
Introduction:
This program offers a highly visual introduction to the traditional Chinese art of Beijing Opera. In the first half, a teaching classroom is moved onstage to show the process by which dynamic, modern people are transformed into traditional Beijing Opera characters. The second half consists of performances of highlights from various famous Beijing operas.
Beijing Opera: Beijing Opera Classroom and Performance Highlights
Introduction:
In an ancient Chinese temple, a young monk devotes himself to the practice of meditation and martial arts, growing from an innocent child into a person of valor and wisdom. Through this story, the author shows that hardship and growing up are integral parts of life...
Dance Drama: The Legend of Kungfu
Introduction:
This program consists of song and dance pieces taken from a number of famous classical stories.
Dance Drama Variety Program: Gorgeous Legends
Introduction:
Displays of colored lanterns are a traditional form of Chinese folk entertainment. The multicolored lanterns come in all shapes and sizes, representing flowers, birds...
Lantern Display: Colored Lanterns of the Orient
Introduction:
Butcher You Hulu borrows fifteen strands of coins, then misleads his stepdaughter Su Rongjuan into thinking that he obtained it by selling her as a servant.
Kunqu Opera: Fifteen Strands of Coins
Introduction:
A piece of history; a love story; an elegy to the spirit of a heroic man and the passion of a beautiful woman.
Dance Drama: Farewell My Concubine
Introduction:
This drama is a retelling of the story of Romeo and Juliet, set in the animal world.
Dance Drama: Wild Zebra
Introduction:
The majority of the works in this extravaganza of percussion and drumming are original compositions.
Percussion Production: Red Poppy
Introduction:
Shaolin Gongfu is a form of martial arts rooted in Zen Buddhism. It utilizes meditation in the study of martial arts and the practice of martial arts as a form of meditation...
Martial Arts Production: The Legend of Shaolin
Introduction:
This exhibition offers 123 exquisite examples of Jingdezhen porcelain, dating from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties to pre-war and modern China.
Exhibition:One Thousand Years of Jingdezhen Porcelain
|
about us
|
contact us
|
Constructed by Chinadaily.com.cn
Copyright © 2003 Ministry of Culture, P.R.China. All rights reserved
