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Visitors On The Icy Mountain
''Visitors on the Icy Mountain'' () is a 1963 Chinese film directed by Zhao Xinshui to a script by Bai Xin. The film is famous for its songs such as "Why Are the Flowers So Red", featuring the rawap and music of the Tajiks of Xinjiang.Lisa Funnell, Man-Fung Yip American and Chinese-Language Cinemas 1317910249 - 2014 The rawap, a popular Uyghur folk musical instrument, was predominantly used in Visitors on the Icy Mountain ( Bingshanshang di laike, Zhao Xinshui 1963), which is mainly about Tajik nationality." The cast features Bai Dezhang Bai Dezhang (; 1931 – 23 November 2019) was a Chinese film actor and director with Changchun Film Studio, best known for his performance in the 1963 film ''Visitors on the Icy Mountain''. He received the Honorary Award of the Golden Phoenix Awa ..., En Hesen, and Gu Yuying. References 1963 films Chinese-language films Films adapted into operas Films set in Xinjiang {{China-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawap
The rawap (Uyghur: راۋاپ, равап Uzbek: rubob) is a fretted plucked long-necked stringed instrument used in folk music by residents of the Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang, Western China. The history of the instrument dates back to the 14th century in southern Xinjiang. It is an instrument of the Uyghurs and Uzbeks. It's particularly associated with Uyghur music and culture.http://www.farwestchina.com/2011/01/uyghur-man-plays-the-rawap-pic-of-the-week.html Uyghur Man Plays the Rawaphttp://interactchina.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/xinjiang-uyghur-musical-instrument-rawap/ Uyghur Musical Instrument – Rawaphttps://shahnameh.netlify.com/rubab_kashgar.htm The Shahnameh Guide To The Lutes Of Central Asia Characteristics The body of the instrument is a constructed box, a bowl (like the Neapolitan mandolin or the lute), or else the neck and bowl are carved from a single piece of mulberry wood. It is used to accompany songs, and is less common with larger instrumentat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tajiks Of Xinjiang
The Tajiks of Xinjiang ( Sarikoli: , , ), also known as Chinese Tajiks () or Mountain Tajiks, are Pamiris that live in the Pamir mountains of Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Xinjiang, China. They are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the Chinese government. Most speak a variety of Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian; the majority speak Sarikoli while a minority speak Wakhi people, Wakhi. Name Despite the name by which they are known in China, the Tajiks of Xinjiang are not the same as the Tajiks, Tajik people (who speak the Tajik language). The Tajiks of Xinjiang are an extension of the Pamiris, Pamiri people, a different Iranian group who speak the indigenous Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. History Early period Tashkurgan, Tashkurgan Town became the capital of the Tashkurgan#History, Sarikol kingdom (), a kingdom of the Pamir Mountains in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County. Medieval period Xinjiang and its eastern Iranian-speaking people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bai Dezhang
Bai Dezhang (; 1931 – 23 November 2019) was a Chinese film actor and director with Changchun Film Studio, best known for his performance in the 1963 film ''Visitors on the Icy Mountain''. He received the Honorary Award of the Golden Phoenix Awards in 2009. Biography Bai was born in 1931 in Xinmin, Liaoning, Republic of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he became an actor with Northeast Film Studio (a predecessor of Changchun Film Studio). Starting with bit parts in films such as ''The White Haired Girl'', he later became a principal actor in a number of films such as ''Ji Hongchang'' (), ''Eagle in the Storm'' (), and ''Man in the Painting'' (). His best known role was probably as Commander of the 3rd Platoon in the 1963 film ''Visitors on the Icy Mountain.'' Starting in the 1980s, Bai became a director. Together with his wife Xu Xunxing (), also a director at Changchun Film Studio, he co-directed a number of films including ''A Place Far Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Films
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic ''Cleopatra'' and two films with all-star casts, '' How the West Was Won'' and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 9 – Joseph Vogel resigns as president of MGM and is replaced by Robert O'Brien. * February 20 – The classic epic western '' How the West Was Won'' premieres in the United States. It is an instant success with both audiences and critics and becomes the biggest moneymaker for MGM since '' Ben-Hur''. * June 12 – ''Cleopatra'', starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. ''Cleopatra'' marked the only instance that a film would be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese-language Films
Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be variants of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered separate languages in a family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Adapted Into Operas
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
