The highlight of this year's Annual Chinese Festival is the Kunqu opera. This 500-year-old style of Chinese opera is one of the world's oldest form of Opera. The 3 day Delaware Chinese festival began today and ends Sunday and also features Chinese hand puppets, a dragon dance, a fashion show, martial arts, Chinese dough modeling, Chinese tea drinking, gourmet Chinese cuisine and more.
The opera will be performed at 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday. Admission is Free, $3.00 for parking.
The location of the festival is 1313 Little Baltimore Road, Hockessin.
For more information about the festival you can call or go to their web site:
302-239-0432; www.chinesefestival.org.
To learn more about the Kunqu opera you can read the article that was in today's News Journal by going to the Delaware Online website:
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070622/LIFE/706220322/1005/LIFE
Some other links with informaiton about Kunqu Opera:
Kunqu Opera from China Page:
http://www.chinapage.com/xwang/kunqu.html
China Rescures 500-Year-Old Kunqu Opera, from People's Daily:
http://english.people.com.cn/english/200109/25/eng20010925_80993.html
Kunqu Opera at the heart of tradition:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/01/content_396205.htm
Kungu from Wikipedia:
http://www.answers.com/topic/kunqu
