Movie Trivia 66 Questions

Author: Jiang Xin
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: There are seventy-two trades or three hundred and sixty trades in the world, each with its own expertise, and they are highly specialized—what is said to be "like crossing a mountain between different trades." Some trades may seem simple, and people might rely on their own small cleverness to tackle them, only to end up making a fool of themselves. This shows that knowledge must be studied seriously. However, art is interconnected. For example, Peking Opera itself is a comprehensive art form. From the performances of Peking Opera actors, we can recognize Chinese music, painting, poetry, dance, acrobatics, and history. Understanding the freehand style of Peking Opera performances will also be beneficial for appreciating Chinese freehand painting. This art series includes eight aspects: opera, theater, film, painting and sculpture, music, dance, folk customs, and craft design. Each category of art, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, holds extremely valuable knowledge. You don’t know until you see it, and the more you see, the more amazing it becomes. However, respecting knowledge should not make one a slave to it. Using this series to appreciate a painting or watch an opera and then try to match it to a specific interpretation is also inappropriate. Because art is subjective—what the benevolent see is benevolent, and what the wise see is wise. If you like Qi Baishi, I like Wu Changshuo; if you like "Qilin Tong," I like Ma Lianliang; if you like Mei Lanfang, I like Cheng Shouqiu, then all of you are connoisseurs of art, and that is correct. It cannot be like arithmetic problems, where there must be a single correct answer. Therefore, I strongly advocate that everyone learns some basic knowledge to appreciate and master art, because art is the beautification of life and originally belongs to everyone. I congratulate the publication of this series of accessible, easy-to-understand pamphlets designed to bring art more broadly into everyone’s lives.