Arts

Chinese Opera

Beijing Opera

Peking opera is a purely Chinese opera form which dates back to the year 1790.Chinese Jewelry,Tibet Jewelry,Tibet Collections. That year four local opera troupes of Anhui Province came to Beijing on a performance tour on the order of the imperial court. The tour was a hit and the troupes stayed. The artists absorbed the tunes of the Hubei local opera and drew on the best of Kun Qu, Qin Qiang and Bang Zi and other local operas. More

Chinese Pi Ying Opera

Chinese Pi Ying Xi, also called leather-silhouette show or shadow play, came into existence almost a thousand years ago. It is said in Yuan Dynasty it once spread to west Asia and even as far as Europe. The paper or leather cut silhouette is reflected onto a piece of white cloth and performers behind the scene control it to walk, dance, or do various kinds of acts by the strings connected to the joints, with companion of music and songs. More

Chinese Musical instruments

Guqin                   Erhu (Two Stringed Violin)       Xiao (vertical flute)  

Konghou (Chinese Harp)        Guzheng

Chinese Music

The body of vocal and instrumental music composed and played by the Chinese people has a history of more than 8000 years. It has a very early development of theoretical, systematic, acoustical, and material science, and orchestral practice. More

Chinese Folk Toys

The development of the modern toy industry in China has had an effect on what today's children play with, but traditional folk toys continue to play a major role in contemporary Chinese culture. As China continues to grow and develop, traditional folk toys are still flourishing. Toys represent the fundamental ideas, desires, and concerns that are central to both the lives of Chinese people and to Chinese culture. More