Architecture Professor Enjoys Traditional Chinese Culture

TOKYO—On Japan’s National Founding Day, Tokyo audiences attending the first Divine Performing Arts (DPA) show in Japan and had a great deal to be excited about. Much of Japan’s traditions are based on those from China's Tang Dynasty.

The mission of DPA is to focus on the authentic cultural heritage of classical China—much of it from the Tang Dynasty.

Professor Hirofumi, an emeritus professor of architecture at a major national university who attended the show, said, “It’s Chinese New Year, and it’s everything I had hoped for. It was very good.”

The DPA show has a variety of dances, most of which are story-based. The ancient stories that appealed most to Dr. Hirofumi were the stories of Sun Wukong, Li Bai, the famous poet, and Monk Jigong [Monk Ji Gong Abducts the Bride], who saves the city from a landslide.

The professor said these performances were "easy to understand and exciting.”

Dr. Hirofumi says Japan has much to learn from Chinese culture, from “Chinese history, and even [from] the modern stories. We can learn a lot from traditional culture in Japan,” he said.

The DPA will be performing in Nagoya on Friday, then on to Hiroshima, and then to Osaka.

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