BEIJING -- To celebrate the Spring Festival, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing will show performances of four classic Peking operas from Saturday to Tuesday.There are hundreds of local forms of Chinese opera, of which Peking Opera is the most popular. Peking Opera is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as intangible cultural heritage.Over the four-day period, four operas -- The Pearl Shirt, Guangtai Village, The Unicorn Purse and The Rouge Pleat -- will be performed by Beijing's Jingju Theater Company. They depict historical events or stories with the themes of love, friendship, loyalty, and changes in fortune.Established in 1979, Jingju Theater Company is a professional Peking Opera performing arts ensemble that has performed in more than 50 countries and regions.The Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, is regarded as the most important traditional festival for those of Chinese origin, characterized by family gatherings, feasts and performances. It falls on Feb 16 this year. wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
BEIJING -- An exhibition on Marxism will be open to the public every Tuesday to Sunday in Beijing with free admission to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth.The exhibition on Marxism's early spread to China was also held to commemorate the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto.It uses pictures, objects, documents and art to depict the hardships during the early stage of Marxism's spread to China and Marxists' solid faith and efforts to save the nation.A launch ceremony was held on Friday at the Beidahonglou branch of the Beijing Luxun Museum (the New Culture Movement Memorial of Beijing) by the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.Marx, born on May 5, 1818, was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, though his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance after his death in 1883.
