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In Guangxi, a 500-pound bronze drum with a frog-faced design still summons entire villages to prayer and weddings; cast since 700 BCE, it has never stopped.
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Qinqiang is China's oldest major folk opera, a 600-year-old Shaanxi tradition whose rough, loud style influenced Beijing Opera and inspired Zhang Yimou.
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Kunqu opera emerged in 14th-century Suzhou and gave Chinese theater its melodic bones, its actor-training system, and The Peony Pavilion. Six centuries on, UNESCO calls it a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Here is why it still matters.
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