Chinese Beijing Opera
Romantic love is the most common opera emotional patterns, there must be Qingyimianmian Haikudanlan of love and the promise of the vicissitudes filled with touching story of the aesthetic sentiment. This is Du Jinfang Yu Zhenfei with the performance of the opera “Legend of White Snake” in a drama, the heroine of men and women love at first sight, in the rain by an umbrella to convey love.
When I first arrived in Beijing foreigners, usually always go to visit the Great Wall, Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven, Beijing is that the three most representative historic sites, if it is with the tour, at night, the tour guide will lead tourists to visit At Chang An Avenue (the main East-West Cross-Island Avenue, Beijing) on the Chang’an Grand Theater. Hall is brilliant, there are a variety of folk handicrafts to sell the counters to buy and to introduce Chinese opera types of facial makeup of Beijing Opera books, paintings, audio-visual products, and so on; Chamber of audio speakers came off the opera aria, although I do not know what repertoire , But the melody is very nice mildly attractive. Theater, is a Western-style stage, the audience is comfortable in the back of the soft-seat sofa, in the front row is fine and the Square Table ARMCHAIR, in the classical as if there is a kind of symbolic embellishment. Find a good seat, looking around the fans – they face very easily, clothing is not about the dress, a lot of people in whisper, but as long as the sound gongs and drums, all quiet down and look at attentively from the show. With the development of the story, they seem to know in advance when one of the play, it should be clear when any actor’s performance to applaud. What is even more surprising is that the Chinese people on the actor’s performance and expressed appreciation for the enthusiastic encouragement – in addition to applause, accompanied by loud shout “ao”! Asked to translate to know that this is the meaning of applause!

Night of Beijing, rich and colorful cultural and recreational activities. (Photo Zhaode Chun)
Although generated during the Beijing Opera and the not too distant future, but in the West, was full of mystery. Beijing opera is rooted in oriental culture of this rich soil, and the Western drama has a fundamental difference. If you have been to Beijing is located in the southwest of the temple B is Huguanghuiguan or watch opera performances had a different feeling. For had just arrived at the foreign tourists, these two look like the old theater has become a folk understanding of Beijing’s landscape – they are the modern opera Xi Yuanzi the site, the traditional Chinese architecture, the theater is also a display of antique; place in which to enjoy Beijing Opera Although only a lively read, but also give birth to a visit to Cuba as a serious sense.

The movie “Farewell My Concubine” (1992 products) stills. This is an international film festival and the revival of Chinese films, many foreigners are watching it began to understand the opera. The film by Hong Kong writer Li Bihua adapted from the novel of the same name, directed by Chen Kaige. The photo shows the three well-known movie stars Gong Li (left), Zhang Fengyi (middle), Leslie Cheung (right) in a movie theater. (China Film Archive provided)
The first foreigners to see Peking Opera, Peking Opera would have a sense of distance, also do not understand can not read. In fact, foreigners do not have to say that contemporary Chinese people, Beijing has some of the divide, “approached” Peking Opera really is not an easy thing. But as long as willing to learn the art of Peking Opera and the characteristics of the culture, you will find that it is all there is interest, perhaps at some point in the morning, ears from the Performance Yi Ya, you suddenly find themselves falling in love with opera.
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