Documentary 1:
Chinese Opera Costume Design and Production
Cantonese opera is an ancient Chinese musical stage performance similar to the art form of Peking opera. Unlike Peking opera, which is mainly located in northern China, Cantonese opera is mainly found in southern China.
In this film, Mr. Wang, the designer and producer of Cantonese folk opera costumes, introduces the various costume styles, patterns and colors and how they connote the different characters and their qualities. For example, red clothing and tall hair crowns are unique to the ancient upper class; the hat with two shaking wings in the back symbolize a scholar. Mr. Wang also showed hand embroidery in front of the camera, which is one of the few manual art production formats that can be preserved in the modern industrial era.
（Running time: 5 minutes; My creative role: Director, Screen Writer, Journalist, Researcher, Editor & Interviewer）
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Documentary 2:
Traditional bamboo musical instruments
Modern musical instruments are of various types and functions and easily accessible to music enthusiasts, so it is difficult to find loyal fans of traditional bamboo musical instruments in modern Chinese society. However, this documentary records an artist, Mr. Dizi, who has been engaged in making bamboo musical instruments for more than 30 years in Guangzhou, a major city in China. He also devotes his passion and efforts on preservation of bamboo instruments.
Mr. Dizi not only specializes in making bamboo musical instruments by hand, but also is a professional flute tuner. He can update the function of flute by adjusting the size of the vent on the instrument.
Usually, this kind of unpopular folk handicraft survival relies on the teaching between the master and the apprentice. Mr. Dizi's son is also his apprentice, both father and son are dedicated to preserving folk handicrafts.
（Running time: 5 minutes; My creative role: Director, Screen Writer, Journalist, Researcher, Editor & Interviewer）
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Documentary 3:
Traditional Stone Reading
In traditional Chinese art and culture, there is a very special art appreciation activity——stone appreciation and reading.
Related to ancient Chinese divination, ancient Chinese people read information about fate, belief, economic prosperity and decline from various shapes of different stones. Unlike divination, which was the function of stone reading in ancient China, the reading of stones in modern Chinese cultural is more about exploring the narrative interest of the peculiar shapes and colors of stones, and the geographical cause to the stones’ different characteristics.
In this documentary, we meet the owner of the Stone Exhibition Center, Mr. Hai, who has collected tens of thousands of pieces of different stones. He interprets each piece of his collection with a unique story. He also makes different wooden stands for each stone in order to match the implicit statement for the individual stone. For most stones in his collection, Mr. Hai can tell the exact geographical origin.
（Running time: 5 minutes; My creative role: Director, Screen Writer, Journalist, Researcher, Editor & Interviewer）
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