Category: ArtsPart of speech: nounDifficulty: Intermediate

戲曲

/xìqǔ/Roman

English meaning: Traditional Chinese Opera

Chinese (Trad.) Definition

(繁體中文)

戲曲是綜合歌唱、音樂、表演、武打的傳統表演藝術,臺灣的歌仔戲是本土特色最鮮明的劇種,也積極保存京劇等傳統戲曲。

English Definition

A comprehensive performing art combining singing, music, acting, acrobatics, and elaborate costumes. Taiwan has actively preserved and innovated traditional opera forms. Taiwanese Opera (歌仔戲, gezaixi) — a form unique to Taiwan and Fujian — is the island's most popular indigenous opera tradition. Peking Opera (京劇) companies are also maintained in Taiwan, preserving art forms that faced disruption on the mainland.

Example

歌仔戲是臺灣獨具特色的傳統戲曲形式,深受臺灣民眾喜愛。

In English: Gezaixi is Taiwan's uniquely distinctive traditional opera form, deeply loved by Taiwan's people.

Synonyms

  • 戲劇
  • 歌仔戲

Literary Heritage

橫看成嶺側成峰,遠近高低各不同。不識廬山真面目,只緣身在此山中。

/Héng kàn chéng lǐng cè chéng fēng, yuǎn jìn gāo dī gè bù tóng. Bù shí Lú Shān zhēn miàn mù, zhǐ yuán shēn zài cǐ shān zhōng./

Viewed from the side it forms a ridge; viewed head-on a peak. Far, near, high, low — each reveals a different face. I cannot discern the true face of Mount Lu, for I myself am within the mountain.

蘇軾 (Su Shi) · 詩人、書法家、政治家 · 11th century CE

題西林壁 (Inscribed on the Wall of Xilin Temple)

題西林壁, composed during a visit to Mount Lu, 1084 CE

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