P. S. I thought this performance was part of the broadcast, but it seems to be a regional thing? I’m now obsessed with 越剧, regardless. Also amused that they’re ok with cross dressing and reverse roles as long as it’s traditional stuff. 😂
Oh my god! Two girls doing romantic Chinese Opera is my newest obsession too! There's a really amazing bit in Henan TV's Spring Festival Gala this year! Where the two girls involved aren't even wearing Chinese Opera makeup, so it's super obvious they're both girls, and it's so sweet!
Oh, that link of yours, it's also Chen Li Jun and Li Yun Xia! I wonder if their troupe have deliberately paired them up in shows as some of operatic love pairing lol
Ommmmmmg amazing!! I also discovered, much to my amusement, that my elders have absolutely no issue with the likes of 任劍輝 , gushing about how dashing and charming her characters were. It does makes me wonder how much I am projecting my own western-informed lens about sexuality and orientation on them.
Yes! Maybe that’s why I grew up thinking I wanted to dress like a boy / be like a boy so I could be with a pretty girl, without realising that I could be a girl who got with a pretty girl. 😂
Your recap is greatly appreciated in the U.S. where we have no way to see or understand about Chinese culture or celebrations. Very interesting and informative.
You were right the wire dance and the acro were amazing. The performance from Xinjiang was interesting too, a mix of chinese and islamic world influences. The mongol band was The Hu we have at home.
Thanks for the highlights and Happy Chinese New Year. Year of the dragon. Oh my!
Thank you for this amazing recap. I didn’t plan to watch the gala but will definitely watch those segments.
May I ask why tou call the languages which are spoken in China besides mandarin “dialects”? Isn’t this creating an artificial hierarchy between mandarin which is a full blown language, and then all those other tongues which are dialects?
Are they not dialects? I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I really haven't actually thought about this before. To clarify, the ethnic minorities in China totally have their own languages that are totally different, and I respect that. There's also a lot of songs and raps that's just spoken in Sichuan-local dialect, and I don't feel like that's distinctive enough from mandarin to count as a full blown language, does it? In my experience, Shandong dialect, at least, has their own terms for certain things (in my hometown, mostly produce and fruits since we're a farming community), we might have different ways of addressing family members, but 85% of Shandong dialect is still just mandarin in terms of vocabulary and grammar, it's just all the tones are changed around. Some dialects are more impenetrable than others. I've never been to Dongbei, but if someone spoke to me in Dongbei dialect, I'd be able to understand it without subtitles. Does that make it similar enough to mandarin to not count as a separate language?
Would love to hear more thoughts about this. If I'm being insensitive or something, I'd like to know!
There's a lot of debate about what's a language and what's a dialect and one tongue in cheek definition is that a language is a dialect with a navy thus taiwanese is a true language.
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P. S. I thought this performance was part of the broadcast, but it seems to be a regional thing? I’m now obsessed with 越剧, regardless. Also amused that they’re ok with cross dressing and reverse roles as long as it’s traditional stuff. 😂
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Oh my god! Two girls doing romantic Chinese Opera is my newest obsession too! There's a really amazing bit in Henan TV's Spring Festival Gala this year! Where the two girls involved aren't even wearing Chinese Opera makeup, so it's super obvious they're both girls, and it's so sweet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2GP2EJCo0g
Oh, that link of yours, it's also Chen Li Jun and Li Yun Xia! I wonder if their troupe have deliberately paired them up in shows as some of operatic love pairing lol
That's because Chen Li Jun is *everyone's* husbando
“老公姐”, love it! And love that she takes it all in good stride.
Ommmmmmg amazing!! I also discovered, much to my amusement, that my elders have absolutely no issue with the likes of 任劍輝 , gushing about how dashing and charming her characters were. It does makes me wonder how much I am projecting my own western-informed lens about sexuality and orientation on them.
The original TV version of Legend of the White Snake had a woman crossdressing as Xu Xian, didn't it? And it's still considered a classic
Yes! Maybe that’s why I grew up thinking I wanted to dress like a boy / be like a boy so I could be with a pretty girl, without realising that I could be a girl who got with a pretty girl. 😂
Your recap is greatly appreciated in the U.S. where we have no way to see or understand about Chinese culture or celebrations. Very interesting and informative.
Thanks!
Happy Chinese New Year! :)
Thank you!
You were right the wire dance and the acro were amazing. The performance from Xinjiang was interesting too, a mix of chinese and islamic world influences. The mongol band was The Hu we have at home.
Thanks for the highlights and Happy Chinese New Year. Year of the dragon. Oh my!
Thank you!!
Thank you for this amazing recap. I didn’t plan to watch the gala but will definitely watch those segments.
May I ask why tou call the languages which are spoken in China besides mandarin “dialects”? Isn’t this creating an artificial hierarchy between mandarin which is a full blown language, and then all those other tongues which are dialects?
Are they not dialects? I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I really haven't actually thought about this before. To clarify, the ethnic minorities in China totally have their own languages that are totally different, and I respect that. There's also a lot of songs and raps that's just spoken in Sichuan-local dialect, and I don't feel like that's distinctive enough from mandarin to count as a full blown language, does it? In my experience, Shandong dialect, at least, has their own terms for certain things (in my hometown, mostly produce and fruits since we're a farming community), we might have different ways of addressing family members, but 85% of Shandong dialect is still just mandarin in terms of vocabulary and grammar, it's just all the tones are changed around. Some dialects are more impenetrable than others. I've never been to Dongbei, but if someone spoke to me in Dongbei dialect, I'd be able to understand it without subtitles. Does that make it similar enough to mandarin to not count as a separate language?
Would love to hear more thoughts about this. If I'm being insensitive or something, I'd like to know!
There's a lot of debate about what's a language and what's a dialect and one tongue in cheek definition is that a language is a dialect with a navy thus taiwanese is a true language.
Hahahaha, does that mean Icelandic is not a true language? :P
That would also mean Cantonese is not a language, which is obviously false.