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    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 coverage)

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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: Agencies]


Folk artists perform at a square in Jinci Town of Taiyuan City on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)


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 this year. (Xinhua Photo)


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 holiday. Photo: Xinhua News Agency


A woman with her baby in arms looks at a lantern displayed on a square in Fuzhou, capital of south China’s Fujian Province on Feb. 16, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

 


A worker rests after arranging lanterns to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year on a street in Wuhan of Hubei Province Feb. 4, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)