PNCA unveils Chinese folk Opera cartoon

ISLAMABAD, May 17 (APP):Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) unveiled “Three Drops of Blood” Chinese Shaanxi folk Opera cartoon here on Friday depicting traditional values of Chinese culture.
“Three Drops of Blood” is a classical story with 500 years’ circulation by a theater genius known as Oriental Shakespeare with a long lasting performance of 100 years. Directed by Bai Zhijun and Produced by Wang Nan, It is a product of Shaanxi Association of the Promotion of International Cultural Exchange, the Shaanxi Dramatists Association, the Xi’an Qinqiang Theater Co, Ltd, The Xi’an Silk Road Modern Art Center and Shaanxi Zhongshan Cultural Media Co.
The event was attended by people from different walks of life including Deputy Chief Chinese Embassy, Director General PNCA, Syed Jamal Shah and Chief Planner Yong Tao, Bai Zhijun.
Speaking on the occasion, Jamal Shah said art and culture should be given it’s space in society and Pakistan particularly as we are striving to achieve a level. The program will be followed by a workshop of animation by inviting emerging animators from schools and media institutions. While a Chinese film festival will also be arranged.
Three Drops of Blood, one of Fan Zidong’s classical masterpieces was composed in 1918, one hundred years ago. The script is derived from Your Wei Thatched Cottage Notes, a popular Qing Dynasty classical Chinese novel written by Ji Yun, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, in his twilight years.
The story’s themes touch upon ancient and apocryphal issues, the Emperor’s Court, interpersonal relations and textual research on the classics of the upper class, meanwhile involving folklore, anecdote, medical science, divination and astrology, and the tales of God’s, ghosts and goblins discussed among the lower classes.
Covering all walks of life, these stories, elegant, popular, orthodox or fantastic, reflect contemporary social, laying bare several of it’s contradictions and illustrating the good and evil conduct of the various social classes of the day.
Through this representation of contemporary Chinese Society’s complex interpersonal relationships in this story revolving around a Superstitious judge, Fan Zidong aimed to warn the people that Blind Belief is mindless as believing in nothing, a moral with profound practical significance in that era.
The program will be screened on PTV World every Saturday for six weeks.