Jia Pingwa · Qin Opera

Author: Jia Pingwa
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Qin Opera is not about the opera performed on the stage, but uses a heavy brushstroke to tell the relationship between farmers and the land, the living conditions of farmers in the new era, and interprets the history of rural China over 20 years. Qin Opera is a "counter-epic rural epic" with an epic-scale grandeur and a profound texture. Jia Pingwa uses words to recreate and construct a vivid world, serving as an "elegy" for the rural life that is about to become a dirge. It is a "dual attitude of return and farewell" toward traditional rural life.