Although it is common knowledge that Chinese poetry, calligraphy, and painting, known as san-chueh, or the three perfections, have been practiced together in single works of art, the precise relationship between them has yet to be fully explored.
Opera is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. As one of the Chinese traditional arts forms, it has unique Chinese artistic characteristics and is very special in the world of arts. There are about 360 kinds of Chinese operas. The UNESCO has listed Kunqu Opera, Cantonese Opera and Peking Opera as the representative works of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Major Themes
The stories in traditional Chinese operas usually go like this: The protagonists experience all kinds of difficulties, and ultimately, “The good people would have good rewards, while the bad on Id have their bad retributions.”
Music is the common language of humanity and is an important tool and medium for human beings to express their emotions, to record things in life, to adjust their moods, and to communicate with each other.
During the Han Dynasty, around the 1st century BC, the government decided to run the country with Confucianism, which emphasized the coexistence among men with the thought of benevolence. Thereafter, music began to play an important role of regulating the relationship between people, and between man and society.
