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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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  • Cantonese culture, or Lingnan culture, refers to the regional Chinese culture of the region of Lingnan: twin provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, the names...
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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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    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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    Cantonese (traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdùng wá) is a language within the Chinese...
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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 or...
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    displayed his personal feeling and understanding of classical music. Cantonese opera is quite popular, especially among elderly residents. In 2003, the...
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    galleries. This designation was abandoned after the French Revolution. In Cantonese opera, stage right is called yi bin (the side of clothing) and stage left...
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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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    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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  • primarily a mix of Chinese and Western influences, stemming from Lingnan Cantonese roots and later fusing with British culture due to British colonialism...
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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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    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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    western classical music in the city. There is also a long tradition of Cantonese opera within Hong Kong. In colonial Hong Kong, pipa was one of the instruments...
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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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    type in Chinese opera for "rough" or "mighty" male characters.[citation needed] In many genres (such as Peking opera and Cantonese opera), this role requires...
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  • Hong Kong Cantonese is a dialect of the Cantonese language of the Sino-Tibetan family. Although Hongkongers refer to the language as "Cantonese" (廣東話),...
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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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    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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  • Cantopop (redirect from Cantonese pop)
    hail from Shanghai. By the 1960s, Cantonese music in Hong Kong was still limited largely to traditional Cantonese opera and comic renditions of western...
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  • Trinh as Princess Tái Á (Princess Saiya) Season 1 was adapted into a Cantonese opera titled Waan Jyu Gaak Gaak Bei Hei Cung Fung (還珠格格悲喜重逢), with Ye Youqi...
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    Wan was born in Cholon, Saigon in 1949 to a Cantonese Vietnamese family and was trained as a Cantonese opera singer. Wan left South Vietnam for British...
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  • The Flower Princess (category Cantonese opera)
    script written in the Qing Dynasty, while the second version was a Cantonese opera from the early 1900s later found in Japan and Shanghai. Little information...
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    in Yu opera. The Fourth Son (四郎探母), a 1959 Hong Kong film in Cantonese opera. Golden Sword (楊八妹取金刀), a 1959 Hong Kong film in Cantonese opera. Yang Female...
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    Bruce Lee (category Cantonese people)
    Hong Kong businessman of Dutch Jewish and Cantonese descent. Lee's father Lee Hoi-chuen was a Cantonese opera star. As a result, Junior Lee was introduced...
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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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  • 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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    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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    deceased 11. Cheung Wood Yau (1910–1985) Hong Kong Hong Kong Cantonese opera star opera star 1940 and 1950s; later joined TVB and retired 1982 – deceased...
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