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Foreigners like to watch
'bilingual' Peking opera
People's Daily, April 12, 2005 - On the evening of April 1, the Beijing Chang'an Theater shrouded in hazy spring
rain was full of affection as a Peking opera was staged there. The theater
welcomed in a group of special spectators: More than one hundred foreign
friends. Some of them are correspondents stationed in Beijing and their families
from 11 countries, including Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Qatar, Spain, Malaysia,
Cuba, Turkey and Pakistan, some are foreign students studying Chinese language
and culture at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, as well as
foreign tourists hosted by travel services.
What's more surprising is that the list of Peking operas previously staged for
foreign friends were usually either "Stealing Fairy Grass", "Picking Up Jade
Bracelet", or the "Fork in a Road", and "Creating an Uproar in the Heavenly
Palace", all these were basically highlights from operas featuring acrobatic
fighting and fairy tales, but this time, the Beijing Peking Opera Theater staged
for foreigners the "Prosperity Brought by the Dragon and the Phoenix", a Chinese
opera characterized by singing and acting. To help foreign friends overcome
language barriers, English captions were used in the performance from libretto
to the spoken parts, thus making the performance a "bilingual" Peking opera
worthy of the name... (full
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A worker makes Yuanxiao, a kind of
round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at a workshop
in Nanjing, Jiangsu province February 19, 2008. The last day of the
Chinese New Year this year falls on February 21 and is commonly
celebrated with these dumplings and a lantern parade. [Photo:
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Folk artists perform at a square in Jinci Town of Taiyuan City on
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Residents perform in the Zhenghe Park
in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 20, 2008. Folk
troupes from all over China and local residents in Nanjing gave
various kinds of folk performances here on Wednesday to celebrate
the Chinese traditional Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb. 21
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A woman dances with a kite in
hand in Nantong of East China's Jiangsu Province February 7, 2008,
which is the Chinese New Year according to the lunar calendar.
People all over China are enjoying the week-long Spring Festival
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A worker rests after arranging lanterns to celebrate the
Chinese Lunar New Year on a street in Wuhan of Hubei Province
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