At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics you will certainly have the opportunity of listening to the singing of performers of Beijing opera. Beijing opera is reputed to have the best form of stage presentation among the numerous operas that originated at different places over the vast territory of China. Operas in China do not flaunt luxurious and elaborate scenery on the stage. As a rule, they have a very simple stage setting. Take Beijing opera as an example. The same opera about a story from history can be staged in the same theater consecutively for hundreds of shows with the house filled to capacity every time. Reliance is not put on the stage setting but on fascination of the audience with the stage performance. The charm of Beijing opera is inseparable from the actors and actresses on the stage. If you want to play a radiant leading role on the opera stage you must be truly proficient in the skill of playing the role. Beijing opera fans, who frequent the theaters, often describe the skill of role- playing required of the successful actors and actresses by saying, “One minute of brilliant performance on the stage rests on ten years of hard training under the stage.” Chinese opera at Opening Ceremony of Beijing Olympics Beijing opera history and famouse performing artists Chinese culture and Chinese opera masks,Beijing opera masks Chinese dresses Cheongsam,Qipao at Beijing Olympics Here, in this special column on Beijing Olympics and Chinese culture I would like to introduce to you a few famous artists who have made great contributions to the cause of developing and popularizing Beijing opera in China in modern times. Their names were on everybody’s lips in China decades ago. There is a strange custom in Chinese operas. A female may wear the costume of a gentleman and play the part of a male, and a male may be dressed like a young girl or a lady and play the role of a female. The four performing artists in the photos were all gentlemen, but they played the roles of females in dresses of ancient styles on the stage. They were honored by the audience with the group title of “the four great female character types”. They played on the stage such roles as a heroine in the history of China, a famous princess, the daughter of an illustrious family, a charming girl from a humble family or even a servant girl, with the imitation so skillfully made as to be indistinguishable in the audience’s imagination from the originals, making the audience lost in wonder. But in real life they were men of courage and honor without the least bit of femininity. They were looked up to for their manliness. They taught and brought up many pupils and disciples in their lives. Therefore, some of the performing artists of Beijing opera at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics will most probably be the pupils of their pupils.beijing opera and dresses Related articles: First Chinese taking part in Olympics game The first Gold medal of China at the Olympics game Chinese business & new Social China Economic Stratum Human right and gap between rich and poor of China http://www.feedmode.com/user/lilichinese/blogs
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What is culture? What does culture consist in? This question is really a hard nut to crack. Culture has no shape; it's not susceptible of description. Culture has no scope; it's hard to set bounds to. Culture is like air. We live in it every day, we can't leave it for a moment, but when we hold out our hands and try to "take hold of" it we'll find that it is ubiquitous and is with us all the time---only not to be taken hold of by us. A cultural phenomenon, whatever it is, cannot occur at random, by accident, and with no reason at all. The task set for the science of culture is to find the reasons and explicate them. If we say that a Chinese is an enigma and Chinese culture is also an enigma, then the ideological core of Chinese culture is the most enigmatic of all enigmas. The core of culture, the ideological nucleus of a nation, is the general program of the existence and development of the nation. Once we seize hold of the general program, everything falls into place. Only when we have taken full command of the ideological core of a nation's culture, can we have a comparatively deep and thoroughgoing understanding of the nation's cultural characteristics, cultural personality, cultural behavior and cultural psychology. That is to say, only when a Westerner has mastered the ideological core of Chinese culture can he/she look at a Chinese with understanding, with penetration, and with precision. It is for this reason that in previous articles I have introduced you to the influence that Chinese classical philosophy has had on her culture. Philosophy is abstruse, while culture in itself is concrete, vivid and lively. Thus, the core of culture can be no other than a highly abstract philosophical generalization. Moreover, this kind of abstract generalization must be shown as true by the vivid, concrete, and lively cultural phenomena. It is difficult to derive the abstract from the concrete. It is even more difficult to return from the abstract to the concrete. Culture is doubtless made up of a great multitude of cultural phenomena. These phenomena, like biological cells that contain the secrets of life, contain the genetic code, so to speak, of a nation's culture. A conclusion that naturally follows is: A nation's culture embodies the nation's cultural personality. For example, a Chinese traditionally bows or bows with clasped hands in greeting because, as some researchers think, Chinese people have "introvert" character. Westerners shake hands or embrace on meeting, because Westerners are "extroverted" in character. Extroversion causes one to extend his hand to grasp the other person's hand. Introversion makes one stretch out his hand to hold the other hand of his own.

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