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How Chinese Opera Started It was the emperors birthday so the people of china did an act of singing, dancing, and acrobatics it was so good and fun the people wanted to do it again and the emperor wanted to see it again and again it was later, decided it would be called opera.
Chinese opera (Chinese: 戏曲/戲曲; Pinyin: xìqǔ) is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE. There are numerous regional branches of Chinese opera, of which the Beijing opera (Jingju) is one of the most notable A little More About Chinese Opera……
Who Can Be in Chinese Opera? ANYONE!!!!!!!!! OF ANY AGE!!!!!!!!!!!
“IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEIJING OPERA WAS ENCOURAGED; MANY NEW OPERAS ON HISTORICAL AND MODERN THEMES WERE WRITTEN, AND EARLIER OPERAS CONTINUED TO BE PERFORMED. AS A POPULAR ART FORM, OPERA HAS USUALLY BEEN THE FIRST OF THE ARTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CHINESE POLICY.” Something I found Interesting Well I Was Searching The Web…..
ChineseVocabulary 1) 京剧Jingju(Beijing opera) 2)Zaju(Northern opera) 3)扇shàn (Fan) 4) huàzhuāngpǐn(Makeup) 5)雨伞yǔsǎn (Umbrella)
Here is what Chinese opera is….. www.chinese opera.com Videos
I hope you get to see a Chinese Opera If you don’t your missing a lot!