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CHINA-ZHEJIANG-YUE OPERA-VILLAGE TOUR (CN)(120206) -- BEIJING, Feb. 6, 2012 () -- Wu Fenghua organizes her dressing backstage during a night show in Yueqing in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 3, 2012. While most Chinese people were enjoying their family gatherings during the country's Lunar New Year holidays, or the Spring Festival, young girls of Xiaobaihua Shaoxing Opera Troupe in Shaoxing, were busy presenting their plays around local villagers as a festival celebration, which is a tradition of over 25 years since the founding of the Troupe in 1986. Shaoxing Opera, or Yue Opera, is a major genre of Chinese opera form founded around 1906 in south China. It was named "Yue Opera" because it has its origin in part of Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period dating back about 2,000 years ago. Yue Opera was initially performed by men only, but female groups started performing in 1923, and during the 1930-1940s, the form became female-only. Now females impersonating males has become a distinguish feature of this art form. While excellent at expressing emotions through singing, with its soft, sweet tunes and melodies of gentle and refined style, Yue Opera has gained great popularity in south and east part of China over the time. The troupe, one of the best-known in Zhejiang, is invited for a cruise tour in the Province every Spring Festival. Since lacking adequate stage facilities in those far-cling villages, stage designers had to use scaffolds and wood block to set up a temporary stage, and plastic cloth to make a makeshift theater. Hours before the performance, surrounded villagers started to rush into the theater to grab a closer pit to the stage, either sitting or standing regardless of frequent leaking of rain drops from above. Girls usually have no dress room but a chilly farmhouse instead, and they have to wait backstage with thin but delicate costumes prior to their turn on stage. From villages to villages, these angel-like girls were supposed to perform two weeks in a row with only one day off in the middle. Fell the curtain deep at night, while girls rush to put their jackets on again to warm up themselves and staff quickly removed the scaffolds for the next performance elsewhere, a kind of joyfulness and a graceful affection for this traditional Chinese art probably may have started to roll over hundreds of local people in these Chinese villages. ( automatický překlad do češtiny ) ( zobrazit originální popisek v angličtině ) | ||
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