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Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

When the autumn breeze blows through the eaves of the capital

2024 "East of the Forbidden City"

Ancient Art Season Activities

The genuine model is coming

Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

On September 23rd, the opening ceremony of the Ancient Architecture Art Season was grandly opened in Zhongshan Park. In October, the most beautiful season in Beijing, a series of well-planned art activities will be held along the central axis of Beijing at a number of ancient sites. Various activity sections such as the Ancient Architecture Show, the Ancient Construction Alliance, the Ancient Construction Art Education, and the Ancient Architecture Dialogue will open the audience recruitment channel one after another, inviting you to experience the beauty of the integration of ancient architecture and art.

This is not only a visual feast, but also a spiritual touch, allowing us to witness and experience the profundity and brilliance of Chinese culture in the long river of history, and protect and inherit this precious historical treasure together.

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Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

The dream of the ancient architecture show returns to the Red Mansion

Classic recitation of "Dream of Red Mansions".

and classic music sharing sessions

The 1987 version of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" is a classic of Chinese dramas in the hearts of several generations, and the soundtrack is even more unforgettable. Cao Xueqin constructed the world of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and composer Wang Liping used music to compose a series of enduring Dream of the Red Chamber.

Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

In this performance, Liu Xiaocui, a first-class actor of the National Theatre of China, Zheng Xiao, a national first-class actor of the Beijing Peking Opera Company and a successor of the Mei School of Peking Opera, Nie Yunlei, a sheng player, Lin Shiyan, a young dulcimer player, and Zhang Yubo, a young guzheng player, will jointly perform the classics and accompany the audience on a journey to the Red Chamber like a dream.

Activity flow

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sign in

13:30-14:00

02

Guided tour of ancient buildings

14:00-14:15

03

Read through excerpts from "Dream of Red Mansions".

14:15-14:30

04

The 87th version of "Dream of Red Mansions" suite is sung

14:30-15:30

The line-up

First

Excerpts from "Dream of Red Mansions" are recited

Title: The twenty-third chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions".

The West Chamber remembers the witty words and jokes

The peony pavilion is beautiful and the police are in the heart

Recitation: Liu Xiaocui

Flute, flute: Zhang Xiaohan

Second

The 87th version of "Dream of Red Mansions" suite is sung

introduction

Zilingzhou song

Vain eyebrows

Red bean koji

Smart tired

The question is three unique

Sigh Xiangling

Divide the flesh and bones

Autumn window wind and rain

Funeral flowers

Singing: Zheng Xiao

Sheng: Nie Yunlei

Yangqin: Zhou Yixuan

Guzheng: Liu Jiaxin

Guest introduction

Read aloud: Liu Xiaocui

First-class actor of the National Theatre of China. Director of the Volunteer Association of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, representative of the 11th and 12th National People's Congress, National 38 Red Flag Bearer, and outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2020. 2021 Outstanding Communist Party Member of the Central Committee and State Organs. The first publicity and selection of Lei Feng's literary and artistic volunteer service "fashion of the times" advanced model.

Xiao: Zhang Xiaohan

Outstanding young master of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater. In 2018, he was admitted to the China Academy of Drama, and in 2023, he entered the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater to work until now. Under the tutelage of Wang Dayuan, Wei Lan, Xu Dajun, Liu Yimin, Wang Mengqiu, Yu Xiaoqing, Wang Jianping, Liu Changfu and other teachers, he studied "The Peony Pavilion", "The Story of the Lion's Roar· Kneeling Pool", "The Story of the Sea of Evil· Sifan", "The Palace of Eternal Life· Restaurant" and other plays.

Singing: Zheng Xiao

He is a national first-class actor of the Beijing Peking Opera Company and a successor of the Mei School of Peking Opera. He is a member of the Youth Federation of Beijing Municipal Government, a disciple of Mr. Mei Baojiu, a famous Peking Opera performance artist, and a graduate student of the 6th Outstanding Young Peking Opera Performers Graduate Class of the China Academy of Drama. In 2019, he held a special performance of Peking Opera "Xiaosheng Yongmei", and in 2017, he published a solo album "Zheng Xiao, the Successor of the Mei School - Yutang Chun".

Music Director/Sheng: Nie Yunlei

He is a sheng performer, a national first-class performer, the leader of the Youth Troupe of the Beijing Peking Opera Company, the leader of the Gong Gong New Art Orchestra, and a visiting professor of the Music Department of the China Academy of Drama. Judge of the 2019 CCTV National Instrumental Music Competition. Music Director of the opening work of the 21st Beijing Music Festival "Farewell My Concubine".

Yangqin: Zhou Yixuan

In 2015, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music and studied under Mr. Wang Se. In 2019, he was admitted to the undergraduate program, in 2021, he was admitted to the musicology major of the Department of Musicology, and in 2023, he was exempted from guaranteed admission to graduate school under the supervision of Professor Liu Yuening.

Guzheng: Liu Jiaxin

Master of Zheng Performance from China Conservatory of Music. In 2010, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the China Academy of Drama to study under Mr. Yang Yang; In 2017, he was admitted to the China Conservatory of Music to study under the tutelage of associate professor and master's supervisor Qiu Ji, and the young guzheng player Song Xinxin; In 2021, he was admitted to the Graduate School of the China Conservatory of Music to study Zheng performance under the tutelage of Associate Professor Qiu Ji.

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The Memorial Hall of Cao Xueqin's Former Residence is located in Ciqikou, Dongcheng, Beijing, and is an important historical and cultural project in Beijing. The original site of "Seventeen and a Half Rooms in Garlic City" is the site of Cao Xueqin's former residence recognized by experts of the Chinese Red Society, with historical data and relics to be found, and it is also the birthplace of the literary masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions".

Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

The current memorial hall was relocated and completed in 2020, and the exhibition will be completed in 2022, with a total of 5 exhibition halls open to the public. The memorial hall of the former residence flexibly displays the history of the building itself, the life of Cao Xueqin, the culture of the Chongwenmen area, the history and folk customs of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty, the literature of "Dream of Red Mansions", traditional handicrafts and other cultural content.

Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

Cao Xueqin's Former Residence Memorial Hall takes the principle of public welfare orientation, explores new ways of using the former residences of celebrities on the basis of protecting cultural relics, and realizes the content expansion from the former residence to Cao Xue, Hongxue, to Chinese life aesthetics, and then to today's cultural self-confidence with the "activation and operation of limited space", builds an academic exchange platform for Cao Xueqin and Hongxue culture, promotes exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations, protects, displays and inherits the excellent achievements of Chinese civilization, and creates a new coordinate for the open activation and utilization of cultural relics.

Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".
Recruit Audience! You are invited to come to the memorial hall of Cao Xueqin's former residence, a → of "dreaming back to the Red Mansion".

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Time

Monday, October 14

14:00-15:30

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Cao Xueqin's Former Residence Memorial Hall

Recruitment conditions and participation methods

Please pay attention to the WeChat public account of "Beijing Dongcheng".

Let's walk into this audio-visual feast together

Relive those classic melodies and immortal stories

Travel through time with the artists

Feel the dreamlike world of Red Mansions

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