Source: CCTV.com

11-12-2008 08:49

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Among the noise of images, I present you with blue, the colour of the universe. Blue protects white from its naïvete, and mingles with black so as to find a way in the darkness.

The opera troupe was performing “Qin Qiang”, or Qin Opera, in Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province. The head of the troupe was 75-year-old Wang Peiji.

Wang Peiji began learning to sing opera when he was 12 years old. He had been singing Qin Opera for more than 60 years. After his retirement, he founded his own opera troupe, called the Zhengfeng Opera Society. He took in students and taught them singing. At one time, he had more than 20 students under his instruction. But now there were only two students left. Most of his students had been children from the surrounding countryside.