To enrich international students’ cultural life and enhance the influence of the Jilin local culture, International Students Association in College of International Education organized international students to watch Jilin Opera performance in Taolimei Theater.
Jilin Opera is not widely known, thus this activity enabled the international students of Jilin University to have a deeper understanding of it.
Students already sat in the front rows long before the performance began. When it started, they were captivated by the costumes of the actors on stage.
After the performance, the international students took photos with the actors backstage.
Ishdorj Orgilchimeg from Mongolia said that she loved China’s traditional culture and that the costumes of Jilin Opera were fascinating. She hoped to have more opportunities to appreciate China’s traditional culture.
Introduction to Jilin Opera:
Jilin Opera is one of the operas of the Han ethnicity people in Jilin Province. It is mainly popular with the whole Jilin Province and some areas in Liaoning Province, Heilongjiang Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is a new opera developed on the basis of Er ren zhuan (two-people rotation: a genre of local folk dance and song from Northeast China) after the founding of the new China. It is well-known for coming into being in Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province.
From 1959 till now, nearly 200 Jilin Opera plays of big, medium and small scale have been created, adapted, rehearsed and performed. The representative Jilin Opera plays include “Lanheyuan”, “Taolimei”, “Lord Baogong Making an Apology”, “Yanqing Maixian”, “Banyao”, “Jiangjie”, “Yuye Songliang”. “Lord Baogong Making an Apology”, “Yanqing Maiqian” and “Taolimei” were made into films around 1980.
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