In Wei, Jin and Southern & Northern dynasties, southern China and northern China were in a divisive situation for a...
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Before Zhou dynasty，there were already sacrifice and celebration activities.In Western Zhou period，these activities found a fixed time in spring，summer，autumn and...
Chinese traditional festivals have experi-enced a historical process of appearing, develop-ing, continuing and transforming. In pre-Qin peri-od some festivals had...
1)A miserable life Performers of traditional opera were first called"you"or jesters. The history of you people in China could be...
Perfomance of traditional opera has to be completed by joint efforts of a team, which is called"theatrical troupe". Theatrical troupe...
A Chinese saying goes:"One minute of performance on stage requires ten years ofpractice off stage."The success of a play won't...
1) Facial Makeup Many people are deeply impressed by the facial makeup of traditional opera,a way of facial dressing with...
Thanks to a long history of evolvement，traditional opera has developed a complete artistic form consisting of unique elements.A Chinese proverb...
The six classical works mentioned above are all literal creation with the formof opera. Chinese traditional operas, created by performers...
In the development of over thousand years，many works of traditional opera havebeen passed down as the literary masterpiece and classics...
Many local operas gradually arose in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Through continuously absorbing new art elements in...
After the mid-Ming dynasty, nanxi grew into different variants in southeast provinces. Zhu Yunming mentioned in his book Yuyao tune,...
By the Yuan dynasty traditional opera embraced its full boom with zaju as the representing art just as poems and...
Traditional opera form sprouted from god-worshiping dance and song in the ancient times. By the Spring and Autumn period and...
The beautiful old city Jiangyin is located atthe south side of the Yangtze River.The section of the Yangtze River near...
Billowing the Yangtze River flows further eastward and meets a large lake on the broad and even plain of the...
There are numerous lakes along the Yangtze River，but only 22 lakes have an area of more than 100 square kilometers，among...
"From the eastern hedge，I pluck chrysanthemum flowers，and idly look towards the southern Mountains."How much poets'yearn and nostalgia the spectacular Lushan...
Leaning against the mountain，Poyang Lake is like the skirt of Lushan，light and soft，never shy of showing her beauty and grace....
Mighty is the Yangtze River and vast is the Dongting water.When one looks afar，Dongting Lakeis“bordered by distant mountains and fed...