Gong-drum Drama is an age-old local recitative drama prevalent in Linyi, Wanrong and Hejin Counties in Shanxi Province. It is famous for singing without the accompaniment of stringed instruments, but merely gongs and drums. Gong-drum Drama ...
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The Daoqing Play is a folk operetta popular in the Yellow River Valley. It originated from the chanting of Taoist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty, and developed into the folk art form of Daoqing dagu in the Song Dynasty in which singing ...
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Face changing is a stunt of performance in opera arts and is a romantic technique to reveal the innermost feelings of characters in the play. According to the legend, the ancients painted different patterns on their faces to scare away ...
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Cuotaiji is a kind of ancient drama that only exists in Luoga stockaded village in Bandi Town of Weining Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Guizhou Province." Cuotaiji" is the transliteration of the equivalent in Yi language of Bandi ...
Cigarette case dance of Yi ethnic group in Shiping, also known as "tiaoxian" or "longzong", is a kind of folk dance loved by the people of Nisupo tribe of Yi ethnic group. It goes around Gejiu, Shiping, Jianshui, Mengzi, Kaiyuan, Tonghai, ...
' The Han Tune Guangguang Opera, also called Guangguangzi opera, is popular in Hanzhong and Ankang in southern Shaanxi Province. It is thus named because the singing and narration of the opera are based on the Hanzhong dialect (dialect ...
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The Han Tune Erhuang Opera, also called Shaan Erhuang and Shan Erhuang, is the second important genre of opera in Shaanxi, and enjoys popularity in Ankang, Hanzhong, Shangluo and Xi'an of Shaanxi Province and some areas in Gansu and ...
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Nanxin Village Puppet Play in Hejian City of Cangzhou, also called "Pushing Play" and "Elbow Play", is a rare opera in Hebei. It was carried to Nanxin Village from Guo Village in Xijiiuji County in the 29th year (1601) of Wanli in the Ming ...
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Hejian poetry has been an outstanding representative of oral literature since the Han Dynasty. It is also an important component of the contemporary culture of the Book of Songs. Hejian poetry is popular in Hejian, a hinterland city in the ...
Tianjin Tune is one of the most representative folk art genres in Tianjin. Sung in local Tianjin dialect, the tune is pellucid and sonorous with strong rustic charm. It is often in the form of a solo or duet show, in which the performers ...
The shadow puppet play, also called "shadow play", is a drama form in which the player holds the human figures that are engraved by the animal hides with colored paintings, and reflected on the curtain through the light, singing and dancing ...
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Guyi Exorcising Opera in Wu'an County, Handan City, is developed from the ancient exorcising ceremony, exorcising music, exorcising dance and the custom of exorcising. It is various in kinds and characters and is the quintessence of the ...
The Qiang flute is a kind of vertical flute that is made up of two 15-20cm-long bamboo pipes with holes of the same size wound together with silk threads. Mainly for solo performance, the flute is a folk music instrument with a bamboo reed ...
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Originated from the primitive sacrificial dance, the Tujia hand-swinging dance of western Hu'nan is a folk dance most characteristic of the Tujia nationality and best representative of the age-old Tujia traditions. The dance is mainly ...
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The Blangs, with a population of 82.280, mainly live in close communities in the Blang, Xiding, Bada, and Daluo mountains of Menghai County in Xishangbanna, Yunnan Province. The remainder are scattered in Kincang and Simao. ...
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