STORY: Chinese-French mixed-race girl enjoys learning Peking Opera
SHOOTING TIME: May 7, 2024
DATELINE: May 8, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:19
LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Qu Xiaopi performing Peking Opera

STORYLINE:

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): QU XIAOPI
"Hello, everyone! I'm Qu Xiaopi. I'm 10 years old. My father is French. My mother is Chinese."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG YEHAIJING, Chinese traditional opera teacher
"Turn around a little slower. Take it easy. Turn around slowly. Right. Good."

SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): WANG YEHAIJING, Chinese traditional opera teacher
"Qu Xiaopi has made rapid progress. Because she is a smart girl. And her body has a very good sense of rhythm. And her dynamic sense is amazing."

SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): WANG YEHAIJING, Chinese traditional opera teacher
"Good. Raise your arms."

SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): WANG YEHAIJING, Chinese traditional opera teacher
"At her age, she is not only required to master the movements and singing of this part, but also to infuse eye expressions and emotions into her performance. She should not just perform mechanically, but with emotions."

(Reporter: Qu Xiaopi, she just played the female role of Hua Dan?
Teacher: Yes. Little Hua Dan. Reporter: What are the distinctive features of Hua Dan?)

SOUNDBITE 6 (Chinese): WANG YEHAIJING, Chinese traditional opera teacher
"Smart, lively, lovely, more agile and vivacious. And we have Wu Dan(warrior maiden), like in the opera piece Hujiazhuang, Wu Dan sings with a more forceful and stronger tone. Hua Dan, on the other hand, sings with a softer tone. They convey different feelings. Relatively speaking, this can set the characters' personalities apart."

SOUNDBITE 7 (English): PIERRE, Xiaopi's father
"I think it (Peking Opera) is part of Chinese culture. I'd like to have my children be part of China, get part of this culture inside them, and they like it very much, so I support them to learn (Chinese) opera."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China.
(XHTV)