Qu Yuan is the first poet known by name and his position in the Chinese Literature is very important.It's equivalent...
Chinese Literature and Arts
As is well known，Chinese literature spans back thousands of years，from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the matured fictional...
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...
As early as in the Han dynasty the magic tricks enjoyed vigorous development; by the Wei, Jin, the South and...
In the Pre-Qin period the juggling plays were only limited to juggling balls andjumping swords and the varieties were quite...
The circus acts and animal plays thrived in the Tang dynasty. There were various performances of horsemanship, circus acts and...
In the Sui and Tang dynasties the magic art made new breakthroughs, especially through communications with India and adoption of...
By the Sui and Tang dynasties the aerial acrobatics made headway and myriads of aerial acrobatic shows emerged. The aerial...
Among the varieties of acrobatics, the magic shows appeared comparatively late and developed relatively slow. Up to the Han dynasty...
The number of both painters and painting works of figure painting in Qing dynasty was smaller than other painting sort....