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Long San Primary School (2001 CyberFair Project ID 1508)
Taiwan, hsin Chu
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms

We estimate 10 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: The local community is defined as the whole Chinese opera.After thousand of years, Chinese Opera has become the combination of music, dance, singing, drawing, literature, and martial arts, which is assumed to be the essence of Chinese arts.

Project Description: The scope of the study is focus on the "face make-up mask" of the chinese opera. The performance of Chinese Opera is only on one simple stage. The entire furniture, movement, dialogue, face make-up mask are completely symbolic. The character role is to express his/her personality that is seen most obviously on role¡¦s face make-up. They represent different kinds of people distinguished on the basis of sex, age, personality as good, evil, loyal, selfish, beauty, ugly. When the kids go through this project, they have gained the spirit of Chinese Opera.

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