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Dance play dips toes in Chu culture during arts festival

By Wang Xin | China Daily | Updated: 2024-11-15 06:08 Chief director Yang Liping with dancers. With renowned veteran dancer-choreographer Yang Liping as the chief director, the epic dance play Jingchu Impression made its Shanghai debut on Oct 30 at the Shanghai Grand Theatre during the 23rd China Shanghai International Arts Festival, offering audiences an immersive experience of the profound …

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Dance play dips toes in Chu culture during arts festival

China Daily

Chief director Yang Liping with dancers. With renowned veteran dancer-choreographer Yang Liping as the chief director, the epic dance play Jingchu Impression made its Shanghai debut on Oct 30 at the Shanghai Grand Theatre during the 23rd China Shanghai International Arts Festival, offering audiences an immersive experience of the profound Chu culture. Jingchu generally refers to the current region of …

Culture Dance China Chinese China Daily Yang Dong

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dance play dips toes in Chu culture during arts festival

China Daily

Chief director Yang Liping with dancers. With renowned veteran dancer-choreographer Yang Liping as the chief director, the epic dance play Jingchu Impression made its Shanghai debut on Oct 30 at the Shanghai Grand Theatre during the 23rd China Shanghai International Arts Festival, offering audiences an immersive experience of the profound Chu culture. Jingchu generally refers to the current region of …

Culture Dance China Play Chinese China Daily Yang

5 months ago

TV show celebrates cultural relics in all their forms

China Daily

British martial artist Matt Jane and Hong Kong kung fu actor Fan Siu-wong perform during an episode of the fourth season of National Treasure in Beijing. China's popular cultural relics exploration TV show, National Treasure, concluded its fourth season on Aug 3. Such relics included the poignant letter To My Wife by Lin Juemin, written before the 1911 Huanghuagang Uprising, …

China Hong Kong British Cultural Museum Season Chinese

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Museum visitors eager to experience Egyptology exhibition

China Daily

Decorated coffins on display at the exhibition. CHINA DAILY The exhibition is "not only the first collaboration of a Chinese State-run museum with the Egyptian government but also the largest exhibition ever held outside Egypt and the highest-level exhibition ever held in Asia, displaying Egyptian artifacts, signifying a golden age when the long-standing friendship between China and Egypt enters a …

China Museum Chinese Egyptian Chinese Scholars Shanghai Museum Egyptology Exhibition

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily

A lacquer table found at the site. CHINA DAILY Significance The Chu features of the Wuwangdun tomb show the continuity of Chu culture, which is part of the Chinese civilization, according to Zhang. He says the Chu tomb in the last Chu capital of Shouchun has features borrowed from the Jiangling area in Jingzhou, Hubei province, the area the Chu …

Tomb Chu Xu Archaeologists Wuwangdun

10 months, 1 week ago

Exhibition highlights unique origins

China Daily

Nurtured by the Same Water, Bronze Age Civilizations in the Yangtze River Basin at Guangdong Museum is the first such exhibition held in Guangdong province to showcase the Bronze Age civilizations in the Yangtze River Basin. Consequently, the dominant trends of Chu culture in the Yangtze River Basin changed accordingly. With the destruction of the six states by the Qin …

China States River Basin Bronze Age Qin Chu

1 year, 6 months ago

Relics of early Chinese civilization put on display in Shanghai

China Daily

Fang Xiangming, head of the Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, introduces a jade cong belonging to Liangzhu culture, from about 5,300 to 4,300 years ago, at Shanghai Museum. Organized by Shanghai Museum with support from the administration of cultural heritage of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, the exhibition is the first and largest exhibition in China featuring the archaeology of …

China Exhibition Region Museum Civilization Chinese Shanghai

1 year, 6 months ago

Relics of early Chinese civilization put on display in Shanghai

China Daily

Fang Xiangming, head of the Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, introduces a jade cong belonging to Liangzhu culture, from about 5,300 to 4,300 years ago, at Shanghai Museum. Organized by Shanghai Museum with support from the administration of cultural heritage of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, the exhibition is the first and largest exhibition in China featuring the archaeology of …

China Exhibition Region Museum Civilization Chinese Shanghai

3 years, 2 months ago

Sanxingdui Museum, Sichuan province

China Daily

Among the numerous ancient bronzes across the globe, the mysterious bronze wares unearthed from the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Southwest China’s Sichuan province represent early human civilization and are of high research value. Since the first excavation work carried out at the site in 1986, an incredible and immense world of bronzes has been presented to the public, with the …

Bronze Chu Sichuan Province Sanxingdui Sanxingdui Museum

5 years, 1 month ago

Ancient Chinese relics on display at National Museum as part of India, China pact

Hindustan Times

As part of a memorandum of understanding signed between India and China during the external affairs minister’s visit to China in August this year, the National Museum is holding an exhibition of over 100 exhibits of ancient cultural relics of the Hubei province. Hubei belonged to the state of Chu in ancient China and the Chinese developed a unique bronze …

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Dance play dips toes in Chu culture during arts festival

Dance play dips toes in Chu culture during arts festival

Dance play dips toes in Chu culture during arts festival

TV show celebrates cultural relics in all their forms

Museum visitors eager to experience Egyptology exhibition

Retrieving history from the past

Exhibition highlights unique origins

Relics of early Chinese civilization put on display in Shanghai

Relics of early Chinese civilization put on display in Shanghai

Sanxingdui Museum, Sichuan province

Ancient Chinese relics on display at National Museum as part of India, China pact