Event Information | The “Culture to Every Household” Public Benefit Event Arrives at Tang Xianzu Bookstore

  

Xinhua Bookstore – Tang Xianzu Bookstore is currently the largest bookstore in Fuzhou City, with a floor area of over 4,000 square meters and a collection of nearly 20,000 titles, offering a total book inventory of close to 50,000 volumes. Grounded in Fuzhou’s thousand-year cultural heritage, Tang Xianzu Bookstore takes Tang Xianzu’s operas as its thematic motif, creating a space that integrates reading…
A cultural exchange platform integrating reading, cultural and creative products, experiential activities, and leisure, it stands as a cultural landmark in Fuzhou City’s New District.
 

On February 26, the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City visited the Tang Xianzu Bookstore to launch the “Culture Enters Every Household” public‑benefit initiative. Our museum presented two exhibitions—“Tang Xianzu, the Sage of Eastern Opera” and “A Selection of Ancient Anti‑Corruption Couplets: The Chapter on Loving the People”—which trace Tang Xianzu’s journey as a playwright and promote a culture of diligence and integrity. Through these displays, visitors are subtly inspired to cultivate a spirit of incorruptibility and a deep sense of devotion to both family and country.
 

In addition, to enable young people to appreciate the unique charm of traditional Chinese opera and to consciously draw spiritual strength from China’s fine cultural heritage, thereby fostering a deep sense of patriotism, our museum has launched a “Opera Mask‑Making” course to introduce them to the fundamentals of this art form.
 

In opera performances, the faces of different characters are adorned with intricate patterns and vivid colors—this distinctive stage makeup is known as “face painting” or “masking.” Face painting is a unique artistic technique in Chinese opera that combines realism with symbolism, exaggerating a character’s features to accentuate and emphasize their personality and individuality, thereby enhancing the overall theatrical effect.