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    Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi...
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  • characters. A female Cantonese opera singer Headdresses used in Cantonese opera Bangzi, a musical instrument used in Cantonese opera Gonggu (講古; gong2 gu2...
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    China, but other genres like Yue opera, Cantonese opera, Yu opera, kunqu, qinqiang, Huangmei opera, pingju, and Sichuan opera are also performed regularly...
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    The Cantonese people (廣府人; 广府人; gwong fu jan; Gwóngfú Yàhn) or Yue people (粵人; 粤人; jyut jan; Yuht Yàhn), are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from Guangzhou...
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  • heralded as the standard. Cantonese was also used in the popular Yuè'ōu, Mùyú and Nányīn folksong genres, as well as Cantonese opera. Additionally, a distinct...
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    jùběn; Jyutping: kek6 bun2) for Cantonese opera, a well-recognised system had arisen for the use of written Cantonese. The theatrical art form became...
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  • Boat Opera Company (Chinese: 紅船) was a group of traveling Cantonese opera singers who toured China in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Cantonese opera was...
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    Chinese opera costume in English, are the stage clothes and attire worn in Chinese opera, such as Kunqu, Cantonese opera, Beijing opera, Huangmei opera. Some...
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  • Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language (廣東話,粵語), which is in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Cantonese is lingua franca of populations...
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  • common profanity in Cantonese. It can be regarded as the Cantonese equivalent of the English fuck. Diu is a word in the Cantonese language. It appears...
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    Cantonese or Guangdong cuisine, also known as Yue cuisine (Chinese: 廣東菜 or 粵菜), is the cuisine of Guangdong province of China, particularly the provincial...
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    Henan opera, Hebei opera, Shandong Laizhou clapper opera, Cantonese opera and Fujian opera. In various regions, local forms of opera flourished, and became...
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    The Guangzhou dialect (Cantonese) was used in the popular Yuèōu, Mùyú and Nányīn folksong genres, as well as Cantonese opera. There was also a small...
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    story has been performed numerous times in Peking opera, Cantonese opera and other Chinese operas. Stage musical adaptations in Hong Kong include: Pai...
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    that hold the tradition. Cantonese opera in Hong Kong A scene of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong Museum of History Cantonese opera played in Mazu's Birthday...
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  • Cantopop (redirect from Cantonese pop)
    Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of...
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    Jiangxi's opera heritage played a major role in the evolution of Beijing opera. Cantonese opera is the operatic style of Guangdong, but Chaozhou opera (潮劇)...
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    Gaohu (category Cantonese music)
    musician and composer Lü Wencheng (1898–1981) and used in Cantonese music and Cantonese opera. It belongs to the huqin family of instruments, together...
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    Lee Hoi-chuen (category Hong Kong male Cantonese opera actors)
    to Hong Kong and became a Cantonese opera actor. There, he met and married Grace Ho (1907–1996) who was of half-Cantonese and half-English descent and...
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    Cantonese nationalism is the notion that the Cantonese people are a distinct nation with their own unique culture, history and identity, and should therefore...
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  • Hung Sin Nui (category Cantonese opera actresses)
    former Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong and China. Hung was a national treasure level Cantonese opera master. In 1924, Hung was...
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    Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...
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    Shannon Lee (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
    of actor Brandon Lee. Through Bruce Lee she is a granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer and film actor Lee Hoi-chuen. Shannon was born on April 19,...
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    Foshan (category Pages with Cantonese IPA)
    area of the world. Foshan is regarded as the home of Cantonese opera, a genre of Chinese opera; Nanquan, a martial art; and lion dancing. Fóshān is the...
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  • Cantonese Opera Artiste". As a well-known actress and opera artiste in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, Fong Yim Fun performed in more than 150 operas...
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    Chaoshan or Teoswa (Chinese: 潮汕; pinyin: Cháoshàn; Cantonese Yale: Chìusaan; peng'im: Dio5suan1 [ti̯o˥˥꜖꜖.sũ̯ã˧˧]) is a cultural-linguistic region in...
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    Liza Wang (category Hong Kong Cantonese opera actresses)
    experimented with stage musicals before becoming a Cantonese opera actress. It was within the Cantonese opera community that Wang met her longtime partner,...
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    Law Kar-ying (category Hong Kong male Cantonese opera actors)
    Dr Law Kar-ying BBS MH (born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong Cantonese opera singer and actor.[citation needed] Born Law Hang-tong on September 22...
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  • Fong Yim Fun (category Hong Kong Cantonese opera actresses)
    Katie Fong Yim Fun (Chinese: 芳艷芬) is a former Chinese actress and Cantonese opera performer from Hong Kong. Fong is credited with over 150 films. Fong...
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    Connie Chan (actor) (category Hong Kong Cantonese opera actresses)
    made more than 230 films in a variety of genres, from traditional Cantonese opera and wuxia movies to contemporary youth musicals; action films to comedies;...
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