Fun Talk About Chinese Opera Halls

Author: Liu Xuzhou
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Each stagehouse is like a museum, recording the rise and fall of Chinese opera over centuries. It is a frozen masterpiece of past glorious theatrical activities, a silent narrative of the vibrant life on stage in its heyday, and naturally, a brilliant construction showcasing the ingenuity of ancient craftsmen. Ancient Chinese stagehouses varied in type, with different styles, characteristics, and scales of construction across different historical periods. From primitive performance venues to temple music halls, market entertainment areas (washi goulan), stagehouses in private residences and aristocratic mansions, guild hall theaters, tavern and tea house stages, opera houses, and modernized theaters as well as numerous traveling stage platforms, the variety was vast and spectacular.