New Fashion After Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony



Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2008

by
Joyce Qi

2008 is a year of China , the most important sports meeting ------the Olympic Games is held in China . Under the slogan of One World, One Dream, all the nations come together to realize their dreams. In the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, the director Zhang Yimou used his fantastic imagination and his knowledge to give all the people in the world an unforgettable night. And after this, Chinese things or all the things with Chinese characteristics become more and more popular. However, among all things, which attracts people most?

As Italy has its opera, Russia has its ballet, what does China have? ------ Chinese Opera.

The history of Chinese opera is dating back from 200 years ago, it is a synthesis of stylized action, singing, dialogue and mime, acrobatic fighting and dancing to represent a story or depict different characters and their feelings of gladness, anger, sorrow, happiness, surprise, fear and sadness. In Peking opera there are four main types of roles: sheng (male) dan (young female), jing( painted face,male), and chou (clown, male or female). The characters may be loyal or treacherous, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, their images being vividly manifested. The music of Chinese opera is that of the "plate and cavity style". Its melody with harmonious rhythms is graceful and pleasing to the ears. Besides its singing, action, and dance, there is one essential thing -----types of facial make-up. The types of facial make-ups in Chinese opera are rich and various, depicting different characters and remarkable images, therefore they are highly appreciated. All kinds of different types of facial make-up give us different impressions of the opera, so in some aspects, types of facial make-up in operas is on behalf of Chinese opera.

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» left by straight talk
 3 years 159 days ago.
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Yes I agree, like japn, a rich history of song, dance and theater.
» left by joyce qi from China 3 years 159 days ago.
Yes....This adds even more sense of mystery to the country.
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