What does "apricot altar" mean in traditional Chinese culture?

The school is called "Xingtan", the theater is called "Liyuan", and the hospital is called "Xinglin".

Xingtan [ xìng tán ], according to legend, is the place where Confucius gathered his disciples to teach, and it refers to the place where he taught his disciples, which is now a metaphor for the education sector.

LiYuan: originally an ancient nickname for the opera troupe. Our people in the habit of calling the opera troupe, troupe for the "Liyuan", called the opera actors for the "Liyuan children", several generations of people engaged in the art of opera family called "Liyuan family", the theater community The theater community is called the "Liyuan community" and so on.

Hangulin: Hangulin is a synonym for Chinese medicine.

Expanded Information:

The Liyuan students are divided into the sitting section, the standing section, the small section, and the men's section and women's section. Sitting part is generally excellent actors, musicians sitting in the hall to play, dancers are roughly 3 to 12 people, elegant dance, accompanied by bamboo and fine music; standing part of the general actors, musicians standing in the hall under the play, dancers 60 to 80 people ranging from the majestic dance, accompanied by drums and gongs (i.e., gongs) and other musical instruments, the volume of grandiose; small part of the children's performances team.

In addition, there is also a dance department, he was divided into Wen dance and Jian dance. Like such a huge choreography, both men and women of the Royal Academy of music, dance and opera, appeared more than a thousand years ago, can not be said to be rare in the world.

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