Tuesday, October 17, 2006


We also went to this Taoist temple in Chengdu. Its been another beautiful temple but I was a little bit disappointed cause I really would have liked to learn more about Taoism but all the signs they had were about the buildings themselves. Anyway we saw Taoist monks (or whatever those people are called) and they look so nice.. Those are the people with long black dresses, long hair which is tightly done with sticks thru them (i'm sure you get what i mean haha) ...
Though this picture doesnt totally show the monks we saw.

At night we went to the Sichuan Opera. Its really famous for the changing faces - a person on stage (actually there were like 4 or so) who can change his face - which is a mask - withing a second, you cant see how he changes it. Hes just waving over his face with his hand and - it changed. Its so impressive. And its not only once they do it, they do it up to 20 times or so in a minute .. You need to see it. The other parts of the opera were mainly funny. Especially the translations.. That really didnt make sense at all. There should be a book where someone just writes down all the Chinese - English translation that you can find anywhere.. hihi.
The costumes in the opera.. Wow.

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