The “Performance to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the National Day of the People’s Republic of China and the Haojiang Moonlight Night – Dance Drama Wing Chun” is slated to be staged at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) on September 13-14, according to a Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) statement on Friday.
Wing Chun, according to Wikipedia, is “a concept-based martial art, a form of southern Chinese kung fu, and a close-quarters system of self-defence”.
The upcoming dance drama, which the statement said had received high acclaim since its launch, will be held at CCM’s Grand Auditorium. It tells the heroic story of Master Yip and recreates the production process of the film of the same name. It is produced as well as presented by the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theatre, and features a story that highlights the “perseverance of the Chinese people” and pays tribute to ordinary people.
The show also combines two types of national intangible cultural heritage and folk culture of the Lingnan region, those being Wing Chun and Gambiered Guangdong silk, which is used to create the costumes for the performance.
Xiangyunsha silk (香雲紗) or Gambiered Guangdong silk is a type of silk originating in the 5th century from Guangdong that is created by dyeing silk with gambier juice and covering it in soil from the Pearl River, resulting in a copper colour on one side and a black colour on the other, according to Wikipedia. Gambier is a species of plant in the genus Uncaria.
Mainly from Guangdong, the Gambiered Guangdong silk is nicknamed “soft gold”. The millennia-old technique includes plant-based dyeing, drying and coating the fabric with the uncontaminated and iron-rich river mud in Guangdong, according to CGTN.
Lingnan (嶺南 – ‘South of the [Nanling] Mountains’) is a geographic area referring to the lands in the south of the Nanling Mountains. The region covers the modern Chinese subdivisions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and Macau, and even Northern Vietnam, according to Wikipedia.
Tickets, priced between 200 patacas and 800 patacas, are now available, with more ticketing details available on www.macauticket.com or by calling 2855 5555. Show details can also be found on www.icm.gov.mo, or on the bureau’s social media pages.
This undated handout photo provided by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) promotes the“Performance to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the National Day of the People’s Republic of China and the Haojiang Moonlight Night – Dance Drama Wing Chun”, which is slated for next month.
