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	Taiwanese opera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese opera was later exported to the Min Nan-speaking areas.
		Taiwanese opera, like other forms of Chinese opera and theater around the world, often traditionally uses cross-dressed performers (反串; fǎnchùan; hóan-chhòan), specifically women portraying men's roles in the case of Taiwanese opera.
		Fans of the opera attribute its continuing relevance to a willingness of performers to adapt to modern times in terms of style and artistic diversity.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gezaixi (275 words)

	Chinese tea custom and history
		Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export.
		The word for tea leaves or tea as a drink in many countries are derivatives from the Chinese character "cha." The Russians call it "cha'i", which sounds like "chaye" (tea leaves) as it is pronounced in northern China, and the English word "tea" sounds similar to the pronunciation of its counterpart in Xiamen (Amoy).
		Tea is produced in vast areas of China from Hainan lsland down in the extreme south to Shandong Province in the north, from Tibet in the southwest to Taiwan across the Straits, totalling more than 20 provinces.
	asiarecipe.com /chitea.html (1508 words)

	Chinese traditional opera - huangmei opera
		Thus Hubei's Huangmei Opera was brought to Anhui by victims of flood and famine.
		The opera tells how the Jade Emperor of Heaven has seven daughters, the youngest of whom, the ravishingly beautiful Seventh Fairy Maiden, daringly flees down to the world in search of a love of her own choosing, and marries Dong Yong, an honesr, kind-hearted serf, in defiance of her father.
		This was conducive to the spread of Huangmei Opera.
	www.chinavoc.com /arts/perform/opera/huangmeiopera.htm (857 words)

	Performing Arts
		Beijing Opera, also written as Peking opera, is a purely Chinese opera form which dates back to the year 1790.
		Di Opera is a traditional Chinese opera popularized in the Guizhou towns of Anshun, Huishui, Pingba and Zhenning.
		Originally without a name, the opera became known as Di because the audience watched on slopes rising in all directions from the stage.
	www.china-window.com /china_culture/performing_arts/index.shtml (474 words)

	Huangmei Opera and Yan Fengying
		Huangmei in Hubei Province bordering on Anhui Province is a county famous for its tea and tea-picking songs, from which Huangmei Opera got its original name, "tea-picking tunes" or "tea-picking opera".
		The success of the opera owed much to the work of renowned performers, among them Yan Fengying, born in 1930, a country girl from Luojialing in Tongcheng County, Anhui Province.
		The opera tells that the Jade Emperor of Heaven has seven daughters, the youngest of whom, the ravishingly beautiful Seventh Fairy Maiden, daringly flees down to the world in search of a love of her own choosing, and marries Dong Yong, an honest, kind-hearted serf, in defiance of her father.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_27459.htm (603 words)

	Epsom and Ewel - Tea Time
		London's tea gardens, of which Vauxhall in 1732 was the first and Ranelagh the most magnificent, were places where anyone who was respectable enough to afford the entry fee of a shilling could promenade, meet other gentlemen and ladies, and be served tea with bread and butter.
		The tea from any one garden can alter with the growth of the bushes and the change in weather throughout the year, but by blending a uniform taste can still be provided for the customer; prices are kept steady by a greater or lesser admixture of the cheaper, neutral teas.
		Tea tasters study the appearance of the leaf, both dry and used, as well as the look and taste of the liquor; a particular tea, once tasted, is never forgotten.
	www.epsom.townpage.co.uk /bhmtea.htm (3181 words)

	India Currents News: Cardamom Tea
		Although many of the tea estates still bear their original names, most of them have been taken over by Tata Tea, which is probably the largest employer in the area.
		By evening, groups of tea pickers could be seen at the weighing stations, accounting for their day’s pickings.
		Tea stalls doled out steaming cups of fragrant cardamom and lemongrass tea as the little ones ran around shouting out to their friends, trying to gauge if Echo Point deserved its name.
	www.indiacurrents.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=2d4a4b1a948e3040d7f6a72ce93298c5 (2063 words)

	Huangmei Opera
		Huangmei Opera was derived from "Caicha Tune", the folk ditties people sang while picking tea.
		From the time that Huangmei Opera became popular in rural areas, it had gone a long way from its status as a recreational activity to professional performances in big cities.
		Since the contents of the opera are often varied, costumes and sets change according to the opera's social environment and customs.
	www.cnhubei.com /200502/ca677346.htm (728 words)

	Taiwanese opera -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Taiwanese (folk) opera ((A native or inhabitant of Taiwan) Taiwanese: koa-á-hì; (Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia) Mandarin: 歌仔戲, Gezaixi; lit.
		The language used is a stylized combination of both literary and colloquial ((computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind) registers of (A native or inhabitant of Taiwan) Taiwanese.
		Taiwanese opera was later exported to the (additional info and facts about Min Nan) Min Nan-speaking areas.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taiwanese_opera.htm (350 words)

	Trrill: Opera Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In fact, by the time opera was in its infancy, the art of scenery was quite advanced, developed in the spoken-word theatre, naturally.
		The new incarnation of the Metropolitan Opera's official website is clean, elegant, organized, and intelligently integrated with external related resources as well as with the Met Family's associated websites.
		Let's face it: opera's going indie, and if we don't spread the love by generating and sharing treasures from the vaults of private collectors, they likely be lost to and forgotten in loftier, more remotely-accessible towers, like university libraries (gross).
	www.trrill.com /archives/cat_opera.html (10958 words)

	Huangmei Opera
		Huangmei Opera was originally called "Huangmei tune" or "tea-picking opera." It was a folk opera that was formed in the regions of Anhui, Hubei, and Jiangxi at the end of the 18th century.
		Some operas had the actions of tumbling and rushing, which was transferred from Qingyang and Hui tunes.
		Pingci is the main melody of reserved copy opera, which uses narration and lyrics to express its meanings.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_madeinchina/2005-12/05/content_76655.htm (240 words)

	Opera
		Chinese traditional opera is a comprehensive performing art which combines singing, music, dialogue, acrobatics, martial arts, and pantomime.
		Among the hundreds of forms of opera throughout the country, Beijing Opera has the greatest influence and is therefore regarded as a national form.
		Yue Opera, originated in the area of Sheng County in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in the early period of the century, is a rapidly developed local opera with a short history in China.
	www.pasadena.edu /chinese/cultural/opera.html (2923 words)

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		Yu opera is noted for its demanding melodies, strong rhythms and intensive use of spoken language.
		Chuan Opera's wide repertoire has a strong literary quality, and is full of wit, humor and lively dialogue with a pronounced local flavor.
		Chao Opera, also called "Chaozhou Opera," is popular in the Chao'an and Shantou regions of Guangdong Province, in the southern area of Fujian Province and in Taiwan where people speak Chaozhou dialect.
	www.teachcn.com /culture_show.asp?articleid=29 (6285 words)

	Station Information - Music of Taiwan
		While nanguan is melodic and soft, beiguan is loud and complex and is found across much of the island.
		Budaixi hand-puppet theater and gezaixi opera are very popular, while the latter is often considered the only truly indigenous form still extant today.
		Holo folk music is most common today on the Hengchun Peninnsula in the southernmost part of the island, where performers sings accompanied by yueqin (moon guitar), which is a type of two-stringed lute.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_taiwan.html (662 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Chinese traditional opera is a comprehensive performing art, which combines singing, music, dialogue, acrobatics, martial arts and pantomime.
		Yue Opera, originated in the area of Sheng County in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in the early period of the century, is a rapidly developed local opera with a short history in China.
		The Yue Opera was circulated first among the country folk in its early period of development.
	www.chinainfinity.com /webpages/culture/opera.htm (1020 words)

	Global Chinese Language And Culture Center Online_Folkore
		Taiwanese opera has also inherited some of these elements from traditional Chinese opera but there application is not as strict as traditional opera’s such as Peking opera.
		Early Taiwanese opera were very careful which gestures they adopted from other operas for they were very particular about this aspect of their art.
		The opera was changed into something called new theater although in reality it was neither new nor old.
	edu.ocac.gov.tw /culture/chinese/CULTUREENGLISH/Folkore/Efolkore0217_16.htm (1259 words)

	hakka-opera
		Performances are usually held in temple courtyards on deities' birthdays or other special occasions, such as the ceremonies held to commemorate the yi-min (men who died in the suppression of rebellions or while protecting the community during feuds) or the masses held for the souls of the dead.
		The operas performed during the daytime were generally of a relatively high "status," such as "The General" or operas concerning gods and spirits.
		Hakka Opera is unique not only in terms of the format of the performance, but also in the singing styles used.
	www-camil.music.uiuc.edu /musedex/taiwan/hakka/hakka-opera.htm (1042 words)

	Tetley Tea Books - The Vision of Emma Blau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		No, not the Typhoid Mary kind, but the kind you carry around with you from place to place, the kitchen to the bedroom, the car to the dentist’s office, just in case you might have an empty minute somewhere to check out the next event in the lives of the complex and troubled Blau clan.
		Picking up characters from the fringes of that novel, she follows them through four generations of relationships with each other and the beautiful, sometimes obsessive, building.
		Her work is strong and teleological, driving to an end that is telegraphed from the beginning (“many years later when Robert would.
	www.tetleyusa.com /books_emmablau.asp (368 words)

	Radio Taiwan International
		The so-called grand opera is a play staged with actors speaking the dialogues in Mandarin Chinese, which is also known as cheng-yin, or the standard pronunciation.
		It often kicks off with the impersonation of deities between 9-11am, then it is followed by the staging of a grand opera around 2:30 pm for the matinee and ends with a tea-picking play for the evening.
		The repertoire for the matinee often consists of operas about grand generals, impersonation of deities or characters with prestigious social status, such as scenes from the Hall of Gods, the Three-Fairies Passing, Happy Birthday, the Yellow Crane Tavern, or Beheading Yang Wen-kuang, etc. The evening performance often consists of tea-picking songs and mountain songs.
	www.cbs.org.tw /english/hakka/p13.html (1280 words)

	Mountainous Area and The East & West Wings of Guangdong
		Cantonese is widely spoken in the city proper of Shaoguan, the city proper of Lechang and Renhua County while Mandarin Chinese is spoken in the city proper, county, town, factories and mining area.
		The folk culture and art are rich in a great variety including tea-picking opera, flower-drum opera, flower-lamp opera, folk-song opera, folk song, storytelling, clapper talk, Cantonese opera, drag-dance performance and lion-dance performance and wood carving, weaving, embroidery and paper-cut.
		The unique ecological system is formed by unique climate, plentiful rain, sunshine, rivers, ponds and reservoirs and rolling hills immense forests, especially for planting "green" vegetables, out-of-season vegetables, alpine flowers and plants and pot landscape.
	www.gddoftec.gov.cn /sq/en/tz_cg.html (1465 words)

	Radio Taiwan International
		The camphor oil that they extracted from the trees, along with the tea that they grew in the fields, became the two most important and sources of income for Taiwan in the beginning of the 20
		Tea leaves are an important source of income for the Hakka people.
		And of course, one cannot forget the woodcarvings of San Yi, the fireflies of Neiwan, Pengfeng Tea from Beipu, Dried Persimmons from Hsinpu, and the lotuses of Guanyin… the list is endless.
	www.cbs.org.tw /english/hakka/p9.html (1121 words)

	Today's Opera News -- Metropolitan Opera Schedule -- AllAboutOpera.com
		Opera star Bryn Terfel is to appear at a north Wales charity concert on Wednesday despite falling ill earlier in the week.
		Opera purists may call it a faustian bargain, but in the first on-stage merger of classical opera and heavy metal the tragic tale of Faust and his existential struggle between good and evil has found an apt musical expression in this small western Norwegian town.
		As music director of the Metropolitan Opera for nearly the last 30 years and in the home stretch of his first season as chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his potential for goosing the possibilities of 21st-century classical music performance is unique.
	www.allaboutopera.com /news/2005_03_01_archives.php (6010 words)

	Taipei Times - archives
		An award-winning opera troupe staged a traditional "tea picking" opera last night to celebrate the first anniversary of the Cabinet's Council for Hakka Affairs.
		Hakkas, which represent 15 percent of the nation's population, have had a close relationship with tea, as many live in Taiwan's hilly areas where tea is grown and derive their income from the crop.
		Although Hakkas are not the only tea farmers in Taiwan, they are the only group to blend tea into their music and culture.
	www.taipeitimes.com /news/2002/06/09/story/0000139581 (606 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Eat A Bowl Of Tea
		Eat a Bowl of Tea was adapted (from a novel by Louis Chu) by screenwriter Judith Rascoe, also responsible for—one might even say guilty of—the scripts for such schlock as Havana and Endless Love (yes, I'm sorry I brought that one up—that groundswell of nausea you feel will pass momentarily).
		As wonderfully evocative as Eat a Bowl of Tea is for the first half of its running time, it is to the same degree frustrating in its latter half.
		You'll be sorry that the script doesn't treat its main characters with greater care, but you won't regret spending a few moments of your time broadening your cultural horizons, learning a bit of history that your freshman civics textbook conveniently skipped, or watching a genuine original at work in the person of director Wayne Wang.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/eatbowltea.php (1645 words)

	MSC Opera - Cruisemates Reader's Cruise Reviews
		MSC Opera was hands down one of the best cruises my family and I have ever taken.
		We booked the cruise in a guaranteed cabin (level 1) and were bumped to a level 4 room (inside state rooms).
		Before I had even noticed her picking it up, Bappoo had replaced the dirty spoon with a new one.
	www.cruisemates.com /articles/memreviews/MSC/opera9.cfm (573 words)

	Tea Leaves: February 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		You pick an action for a character and then you must time button presses as a sweeping hand goes around the judgment ring to determine how well your character does.
		In most videogame versions of football, it is considered legitimate to pick a play, hike the ball, and then not touch the controller, but to just let the players run the play as best they can.
		Head over with your empty bag and pick up fruit, vegetables, bread, cheese that is illegal in the U.S., fresh fish, raw oysters, live langoustines, and loads of hot dishes ranging from quiche to kabobs to whole roast chicken.
	www.tgr.com /weblog/archives/2005_02.html (14705 words)

	Taiwanese opera - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Taiwanese opera was later exported to the Min Nan-speaking areas.
		In the early 1980s Taiwanese opera was brought to the television audience, with Iûⁿ Lē-hoa (楊麗花) as its popular face.
		Fans of the opera attribute its continuing relevance to a willingness of performers to adapt to modern times in terms of style and artistic diversity.
	www.music.us /education/T/Taiwanese-opera.htm (433 words)

	Crash Test Dummies: Soap Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		At first Ben passed it off as a friendly British custom but, as the paint fumes made their way up his densely-forested nasal passages, he thought it wise to telephone his fellow band members while consciousness was still an option.
		At Luxurious Chateau Spice, Ben was weepily telling his tale of woe to the Spice Girl who once posed naked and the four lesser ones.
		Unfortunately, Ben was so at ease that he begun talking about his perfect day, and hoping that maybe, just maybe, the naked Spice girl and the other ones might help him have that day.
	www.crashtestdummies.net /Fans/SoapOpera.asp (2912 words)

	Welcome to theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Along with the transformation of Chinese society, Chinese opera actors and actresses began to modify their performances, costumes and makeup to suit the tastes of the inhabitants of the newly burgeoning cities.
		In the beginning, these new operas were simple in form, with one-man, two-man and three-man shows as the mainstay.
		For instance, The Heavenly Maid and the Mortal performed by the Huangmei Opera Troupe from Anhui, tells a love story concerning young farmer Dong Yong and a fairy maid, became well known ovemight, as did Yan Fengying, the actress who played the role of the fairy maid.
	english.ccnt.com.cn /?catog=theater&file=050301&ads=service_001 (354 words)

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