北师版英语必修2 Unit 5 Lesson 2 Beijing Opera 7.docVIP

Unit 5 Lesson 2 Beijing Opera Task 1 Assignment--- Internet Reading (课前完成) —How well you use internet to search information? Beijing opera is considered as a national treasure in China, and dates back to(goes back to) long time ago. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor(皇帝) Qianlong of Qing Dynasty(1790), the four big Huiban opera Troupes (徽班) entered the capital. Gradually, through a period of more than half a century of combination of various kinds of opera, there came out the present Peking Opera. Today, Beijing Opera is the largest and most influential kind of opera in China and its richness, great number of artists, avid audience, and profound influence are incomparable in China. Since Mei Lanfang, the grand master of Peking opera, visited Japan in 1919, Peking opera has become more and more popular with people all over the world, and it has made an excellent contribution to cultural exchange between China and the West. Peking Opera house of Beijing has been invited to perform in U.S.A., England, France, Germany, Italy (three times), Australia, Japan( four times), Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, South korea and Hongkong (five times). The performances have made an outstanding contribution to Sino-foreign cultural exchange and to the promotion of friendly association of peoples in the world, and were highly appreciated by foreign audiences. In 1993 Peking Opera House of Beijing as a big Peking opera troupe made a performance visit to Taiwan, pushing the cultural exchange to a new height. Peking opera is a combination of action, singing, dialogue and mime, acrobatic fighting and dancing to represent a story or different characters and their feelings of gladness, anger, sorrow, happiness, surprise, fear and sadness. In Peking opera there are four types of roles: sheng , dan, jing, and chou. The characters may be loyal or treacherous, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, their images being vividly manifested.  Peking opera is mainly engaged in fairy tales of pre