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A Different Flavor of "Peony Pavilion"
Kunqu Opera
Kunqu Opera was included on top of the first batch of “Human Beings” Verbal and Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Work selected by UNESCO. As the current most ancient drama form, Kunqu Opera is one of the originals from the world’s three largest ancient dramas. Starting from the
late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Kunqu Opera is a performance and singing art with strict rules and forms, complete patterns, graceful and pleasant tunes, and gentle, lingering music. With integrated literature, drama, performances, music, dance, and art, Kunqu Opera is the stage art with
the most poetic and pictorial splendor. With all the advantages of ancient Chinese aesthetics, Kunqu Opera has always been reputed as the foundation of all dramas and considered a national treasure. Kunqu Opera The Peony Pavilion is the pinnacle in Chinese dramatic history and brings the delicacy
and romance of Kunqu Opera into full play.
Abstract of "Peony Pavilion"
In Lin’an city in Zhejiang Province, there lived a girl from a rich family named Du Liniang. One day, she goes to the garden to have some fun. She is mesmerized by the unsurpassed spring scenery and she is ravished by an intoxicating dream, in which a handsome scholar (Liu Mengmei) comes to her
with a willow branch and they fall in love at first sight. Waking from the dream, she finds no way to part with his image in her heart and it seems impossible for her to lock up her heart that has just been freed from the bondage of feudal ethics. She is so enchanted by the feeling that she finds
herself going nowhere else except in the dream where she stays with Liu Mengmei. As a result, she gets lost in the smothering atmosphere of her family where she cannot follow her heart to choose her ideal spouse.
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