The Confucius Institute at UADY offered the Feast of the Peking

Opera

The Confucius Institute of the Autonomous University of Yucatán, CI-UADY, was

visited by the Lingnan Chinese Opera Association, which is part of the Sun Yat-

Sen University, located in Guangzhou City, Guangdong. For the first time in the

city of Mérida the event attendees had the opportunity to admire elegant characters,

lush makeup, and the exquisite singing, postures and technical characteristics of

Chinese opera.

The Peking Opera is one of the most famous. It is also one of the most

characteristic expressions of the traditional art of China. Peking Opera is an

important part of the cultural heritage of the Chinese people. It originated from the

local opera of Anhui province, and combined in its evolution the artistic

expressions of other premises which gave life to new drama operas. Peking Opera

integrates multiple art forms: singing, dialogue, monologue, choreography, acting,

acrobatics and martial arts.

The feast of the Peking Opera took place on March 17, 2014 in the theater Felipe

Carrillo Puerto at the Autonomous University of Yucatan with an attendance of

approximately 300 people who enjoyed the role and various numbers such as:

spreading sky goddess flowers, which delighted the audience with the technique of

using water hoses, legend of the White snake, a folk tale well known in China that

tells the love story of a young man and a lady, White Snake. They meet on the

shore of the beautiful West Lake and gradually fall in love. The dream of a young

married woman is a fragment that showed the transformation of the feelings of a

sore and troubled heart to a sweet moment when in her bedroom she sees her

husband in his sleep, who was separated from her.

The number presented by actor Wu Di Pickup ¨Picking up the Jade Bracelet¨ that

without scenic elements and with only the use of hands, gestures and posture

managed to unleash joy and laughter in the audience, was the most acclaimed.

The Managing Director of the Confucius Institute at UADY, Dr. Andreas G. Aluja

Schuneman, welcomed the public and the authorities present. For his part, Dr.

Kang Baocheng, director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Sun Yat -sen

University, spoke a few words of thanks to the public of Merida for their great

interest in Chinese culture. Technical Director of CI- UADY, Pamela Crystals

Ancona opened the event with a brief introduction of Chinese opera.

The event was led by local teachers of the Institute, Miguel Contreras Carrillo and

Nubia Cano Magaña. The presentation of the feast of the Peking Opera was part of

the artistic group tour Lingnan whose next presentation was on March 19 in

Mexico City, event that was organized in cooperation with the Confucius Institute

at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (CI- UNAM).

The event in images: