Kunqu Opera - Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭 寻梦

[countrymusic12344]

Tanx CHina !

Its Fantastisc !

with love from Armenia

[Ginne86]

whereas kunqu is more calm and relaxing

[totosun4fam]

don no if it is jst preoccupation or not. Sir Mei Lanfang's version seems of better rhythm. and the prounouciation heards quite differently from this one. this one's more like proper mandarine instead of wat is called 吳儂軟語. hope to be answered. many thx!

[iysum]

This the North division of Kun Opera. 北昆 and 南昆 are quite different in the dialects they used as well as the stage steps: 北昆 stage steps are more flashy while and 南昆 focus on being calmer/slower movements.

[iysum]

Both南北昆 use 中州韵（ancient official Chinese）and 入字声（a pronunciation method）, 北昆 and 南昆 singing accent are different.

北昆's accent is close to Beijing dialect, 南昆accent is close to southern dialects. Now we have 5 major Kun opera companies in China; one belong to 北昆 division, 4 belong to南昆. Even the 4 南昆 opera companies use slightly different southern accents when singing.

[jejaka1243]

I am an overseas chinese who does not read or write chinese ... only speak a little hakka dialect. Beatiful though I do not understand a word. Any traslation of the song in English?

[taijicheng]

@jejaka1243 hard to translate literary Chinese

basically its about the girl went back to the garden to relive the dream she had in which she met her Mr. right

she is enjoying the blooming flowers and at the same time deploring the loss of the dream

u should learn some Chinese, the characters have meanings in themselves and are beautiful

[jejaka1243]

@taijicheng

Thanks Taijicheng. Has been quite a while since I logged into youtube. I know the chinese characters are beautiful. I am a third or 5th generation overseas chinese depending on either my father or mother's side of the family... local politics really made my mother avoid sending me for chinese education more than 30 years ago. Now it is better. I send both my children to learn Mandarin, read and write the characters apart from English.

[minuet30131]

Beijing opera origin from kunqu opera

kunqu opera have 600 years history

[chloe0725]

this is not chinese opera. this is kunqu. Chinese opera is from Beijing and this is another type. You can compare it with "Yang Silang Visits His Mother"

[Ginne86]

beijing opera is very noisy because it has mandarin influence

[iysum]

There are more than 100 kinds of Chinese opera; Kunqu and PK opera are two of many Chinese Opera. And Kunqu is the oldest form of opera in China(600 years); it is the mother of all classic Chinese Opera. PK opera came out of Kunqu ( or Kun Opera) 300 years ago. You need to update your knowledge about Chinese classic opera.

[LornaEGL]

I love chinese opera, wish I could go and see one one day!

[skubdeliou]

Thank you Reverdie it is beautiful

[A5B17X]

like a poem in a dream.

[A5B17X]

Very wonderful, like a poetical dream.

[pabler1986]

he visto gárgolas

[claudiasilvag]

no temas maner!

[emmanuel070]

tengo miedo..

[rometube]

haahaa, eres TREMENDO!

[tmwc2003]

琴、笛與女聲配合得天衣無縫，最難得是笛子的聲並沒有蓋過女聲。­主調仍在女聲。

[klss]

Very enjoyable. thanks for sharing.

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[NikkiSavella]

SPLENDID Form of Art. Thus is Chinese Opera! ^_^

[throottu]

great, wonderful! singing and dancing too

Thank you YOU TUBE for uploading this Opera

piece!

[kylie131]

i like this!!!