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Shanghai Opera

Shanghai opera, based on the folk songs of the Huangpu River region, is an art form performed by a small bunch of local people. Also known as "Huju" in China, the opera is performed in the Shanghainese dialect of Wu Chinese, which is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin. In other words, a person from Beijing would not understand the lyrics of a Huju piece. That is to say, everyone is a foreigner as for the opera except the local poeple! And you are going to enjoy the uniqueness of the dialect, the music, and the wonderful acting of the performers. And the clothing is something worth mentioning. Shanghai opera performers wear costumes that resemble the street clothing of ordinary people from the pre-communist era. Their makeup is not much more elaborate than that worn by western stage actors, in stark contrast to the heavy and significant grease-paint used in the other Chinese Opera forms.

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