Really sad to know that only twenty-something people went to watch the Peking Opera show last night at the Chang'an Theatre. Is this traditional form of art really so unattractive now to people busy with urban rhythms and modernized life? I can't say it is doomed, yet it is at least marginalized.
Reminded me of a book that I just finished reading today. It is a collection of black-and-white photoes taken by an amateur photographer in the 1980s in Beijing, together with a number of illustrative and reflective articles written by the cameraman's wife. A sort of sad yet helpless sentiment flows out of the pictures and texts recalling those good old days now long gone. It is a sharp contrast between our tranquil and easy lifestyle then, with almost everyone's undisturbed mind, and the society now characterized by consumptionsim and materialism as well as the rush-for-money (or survival?) life pace for people at large.
Let's try to remember.
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hm, you can always find a song to tell the story or a mood.
This song is cute. I like it.
btw, the PK opera has bilingual captions. I was almost reading through the English. There're five foreigners.....
Seems no need to finish this...Someone cut in. :)
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