Peking Opera
The Peking Opera, With its fascinating and artistic accompanying music, singing and costumes, is China's national opera. Full of Chinese cultural facts, the opera presents the audience with an encyclopedia of Chinese culture, as well as unfolding stories, beautiful paintings, exquisite costumes, graceful gestures and martial arts.
Since Peking Opera enjoys a higher reputation than other local operas, almost every province in China has more than one Peking Opera troupes. Opera is very popular among Chinese people, especially seniors, that even "Peking Opera Month" has been declared.
Paper-cut
Chinese Paper-cut is a very popular folk art craft in China. Boasting for rich contents, compact structures and smooth lines, Chinese paper-cuts are deeply rooted in people's daily life. There are no records about when Chinese paper-cuts came into being, but they already enjoyed popularity in the early Qing Dynasty.
Chinese Lanterns
Lanterns (Deng Long in Chinese) are a special handicraft of Chinese tradition. Fancy lanterns are widely used as decorations in the country during festivals and holidays, on weddings and other celebrations .
Diabolo Spinning
Diabolo spinning, which is also known as "bell spinning" or "kite spinning," is a traditional form of folk acrobatics of the Han people all over the country, especially northern China. The diabolo refers to a kind of toy that hums when spun.
Acrobatics in China
The Chinese acrobatics has a long history and rich national flavor. It is one of the art forms that are most popular among the Chinese people. In a broad sense, acrobatics is the collective name of various kinds of feats.
In the primitive society, acrobatics was closely related with music and dance, and became dominant of cultures at that time.
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese calligraphy has a history which is as long as that of China itself. Calligraphy is a special category in China's world of fine arts and one of the most challenging Chinese art forms for a foreigner to appreciate or master.
Calligraphy, or shufa, is one of the four basic skills and disciplines of the Chinese literati. The other three ones are painting (hua), stringed musical instruments (qin) and board games (qi ). |
