Performing Arts
This traditional Chinese performing art combines singing, dancing, acting, and martial arts, and is known for its colorful costumes and painted masks.
What is Peking Opera?
This stone is often used to sculpt with thanks to its association with its many virtues of longevity, purity, and whatnot.
What is Jade?
Often performed during Lunar New Year for good fortune, this traditional dance involves performers mimicking the movements of a powerful animal to the beat of drums and cymbals.
What is the Lion Dance?
This monkey was born from stone, gaining supernatural powers, ultimately staging a failed revolt, resulting in his imprisonment by the Buddha.
These were the travelers in the tale of “The Journey to the West”
Who are Xuanzang, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing?
This ancient form of shadow entertainment uses translucent figures held between a light source and a screen to tell stories.
What is Chinese Shadow Puppetry?
This is the largest Buddha Statue in the world at 153 meters.
What is the Spring Temple Buddha?
This art form involves transforming clay into lifelike figures.
What is the “Clay Figure Zhang”?
This powerful, mischievous boy entity is best known as a symbol for rebellion against authority. He sacrificed himself with the aid of divine intervention, having also fought the son of Ao Guang.
Who is Ne Zha?
These are the four plants of China represent the four virtues 和 seasons
What is the orchid, plum blossom, bamboo, and the chrysanthemum?
This elegant and expressive dance style, often performed by the Dunhuang Dance Troupe, takes inspiration from the ancient Silk Road murals in the Mogao Caves.
What is Dunhuang Dance?
The beginnings of the silk road can be symbolized with this statue.
What is the “Bronze running horse”/ “The Flying Horse of Gansu”/ “Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow”?
This red paper art form is hung in windows and doors during the Chinese New Year to symbolize happiness and good fortune.
What is Paper Cutting (剪纸 jiǎn zhǐ)?
All of the zodiac animals were invited to the banquet hosted by the Jade Emperor; where he held a race and the first twelve animals to cross the river earns a year named after them. This is the order of which the zodiac animals ran and won.
Who is the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat/Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig?
Another name for the four plants of China, representing the four seasons/virtues.
Who are the four gentlemen/noble ones?
A famous Peking Opera tells the story of Yang Yuhuan, a beautiful imperial consort, who drinks alone in her pavilion after the emperor fails to appear for a planned banquet to admire the flowers.
What is Drunken Beauty?
This emotional poem about love between a prince and a nymph is immortalized in what painting?
What is “The Nymph of the Luo River”?
Originating during the Tang Dynasty, these colorful woodblock prints are displayed on doors and walls during the Spring Festival to welcome good fortune and ward off evil spirits.
What is New Year Picture? (年畫- Nianhua)
The Creator of the world.
Who is Pangu?
In Peking Opera, this unique vocal technique, used mostly by female roles known as dan, involves a high-pitched, ornamented style of singing.
What is the Qingyi singing style?
A famous Peking about a Buddha's heavenly maid who scatters blossoms to test the faith and learning of the Buddha's disciples. Those disciples who are still shallow in their spiritual understanding are covered in petals, while those with deeper faith are not, encouraging them to continue their diligent practice.
What is The Heavenly Maid Scatters Blossoms?
This legend of a celestial falling in love with the beauty of Zhuhai is immortalized as a statue in what form (celestials can transform).
What is the Zhuhai Fisher Girl Statue?
The four famous embroideries refer to these names.
Xiang Embroidery, Shu/Chuan Embroidery, Yue/Guang Embroidery, Su Embroidery
These are the Four Dragon King names.
Who is Ao Guang (敖广), Ao Qin (敖钦), Ao Run/Jun (敖闰/敖君), Ao Shun/Ming (敖顺/敖明).
This story involves 10 deities that can shape shift into a crow and a 日, in which this man killed 9 out of 10 of; as the world was suffering in drought:
What is the story of the Ten Suns and Hou Yi?