Learn Chinese Culture By Appreciating Beijing Opera

How to introduce Chinese traditional culture to foreigners? How to reveal the abstract culture more directly and vividly? Beijing Opera is an image reflected Chinese culture and a typical performance art style of Chinese language. It is not only a microcosm of Chinese culture and a big viewing window of Chinese national condition as well. Beijing Opera is a quintessence of Chinese culture. It is also an elegant enjoyable art and a high lever platform to communicate culture. But how can it be appreciated by foreigners? With modern multiple-media technology, at the advanced Chinese lever, Beijing Opera is a possible easier and better way to learn and understand Chinese culture. At the cognitive stage, to listen to sufficient songs accompanied by the old operas; at the absorptive stage, to watch ample plays of modern Beijing Opera; at the comparative stage, to study liberal plays of traditional Beijing Opera in order to arouse the interesting of learning Chinese culture and to improve the cultural competence. As the cultural communicative competence becomes more skillful and suitable, it is more inclusive to accept other culture and easier for different culture to coexist together and develop coherently.