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What impressed us most about The Peony Pavilion?

What impressed us most in Peony Pavilion is this beautiful love that spans time and space.

Bai Xianyong's youth version of Peony Pavilion in Guangzhou Station in 2020, this beautiful love that spans time and space is still so moving. The classic tradition will never fall behind, but it will last forever and stay in our hearts.

It retains the abstract freehand brushwork of China's traditional operas, and presents the classic handed down from ancient times to the audience in the form of youth and beauty and with simple and complicated aesthetic traditions.

Flowers are full of flowers, and the garden is full of dreams. The classics handed down from generation to generation appear in front of people in the form of youth and beauty, reappearing this love story that spans life and death. From the beautiful scenes to the costumes of the actors, every detail is extremely exquisite, and all aspects of the performance are more exquisite than traditional stage plays, just like a dream that has been lingering for 400 years.

The Cultural Significance of Peony Pavilion

As a classic in the history of China literature, The Peony Pavilion has important cultural significance and far-reaching influence. First of all, The Peony Pavilion emphasizes the conflict between personal feelings and fate, which embodies the complexity of human nature and social constraints.

Secondly, the work reveals the restrictions of feudal social hierarchy on people's free choice and pursuit of happiness, and reflects some common problems in ancient China society.

In addition, The Peony Pavilion had a great influence on later literary and artistic creation, and influenced later literary, dramatic and musical works, and became an important part of China opera art.