Shu Feng Ya Yun Teahouse
 

Shufengyayun Teahouse is located in Chengdu Cultrue Park on Qintai Road. It's beside Qingyang Palace, the famous Taoist abbey, and it's near Wuhou Ancestral Temple and Dufu Cottage. The building of it is of primitive simplicity, and has a proper style of Old West Shu Country (the old name of Sichuan Province). Shufengyayun once was a teahouse and assembly hall of famous Sichuan operatic actors long before. In recent years, Shufengyayun gathers the distinguished actors in Sichuan Province once again and holds China Sichuan Opera Unique Skills Performance for each evening, which makes more and more people know Sichuan traditional arts and the old appearance of Sichuan ancient teahouse.

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Mr. Zhongwen He
Mobile: +86-13608086020 +86-28-88898804
(Speaking English and Chinese) (Peking time: 0830-2300)
E-mail: westtour@163.com    hezhongwen@hotmail.com
Sichuan China International Travel Service
Add: Room No.314#, No.65# Section 2nd Renminnan Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R.China
Post Code: 610021

Program：
Prolusion: Naotai
Naotai is a piece of gong and drums music. It contents the best of the operns of Sichuan Opera, and it is full of Sichuan folk charm and local feature.
Sichuan Opera
Sichuan Opera derived from the great culture of West Shu Country, which has a long history of over two thousand years. Sichuan Opera, as one of most characteristic Chinese local drama, has a history over three hundred years. Sichuan Opera is good at magnificent accomplishment, humorous actor’s lines, and excellent Gongfu performing.
Gaohu Solo: Liang Shanbo & Zhu Yingtai
Gaohu is a kind of violin (fiddle) with two strings which, together with Erhu, belongs to the "huqin" family.? Liang-Zhu is a classical Chinese composition adopted from a beautiful love story of the same name.
Stick-puppet show：The beauty of the World
Stick-puppet show is a tour de force, which has a long history over two thousands of years. The beauty of the World is adopted from an excerpt of Sichuan Opera.? The story is about a fairy, who descended on the world and was infatuated with the life of human and the beauty of the world.
Rhythm of Shu Yun
Rhythm of Shu Yun is a particular art form consisting of talking, singing, Sichuan folk instruments performing, and dancing.
Suona Solo, Kaxi
Suona is known as Chinese trumpet. Birds in the Woods is the most expressive Suona composition which describes merry birdcall of hundreds of birds in the woods.
Kaxi, Let’s Speak Intimate Words, humorously presents the dialogue between the relatives according to two persons’ performances.
Hand Shadow Show
Hand shadow show is an ancient folk art. It derived shadow show, puppet show, and even the hand performing of Chinese operas
Changing Faces
Changing Faces and Spitting Fire are the magic unique skills of Sichuan Opera. They are derived from Old West Shu Country and well known all over the world. During the performance, the performers change their masks in a magic way to show the rapid diversification
of the gut and the role’s innermost being. In Shufengyayun, the particular Sichuan Operatic masks and perfect performance of masters, who have been sent abroad to perform by government, shows the tiptop of the art of Changing Faces and Spitting Fire.? And only in Shufengyayun you can enjoy the unique skills so closely and truly.
Facial Make-up
Facial make-up is a step of making-up of actors of traditional Chinese Opera.? It’s painted in different design on the face with paint.? Different people have specified types of facial make-up to express the different characters.? For example: Red means loyalty, such as Guangong; Black means frankness, such as Zhangfei; White means duplicity, such as Caochao.? Facial make-up is usually used as  Jing (man with strong character).
Unique Skills of Puppet
Stick-puppet Show
Puppet show is rooted from the Han Dynasty(202BC-204DC). Stick-puppet show is a way of performing, which the puppet and performer are all on the stage. Wood-head Show in Sichuan Province and Pleading Puppet Show are most famous, and they were used as to fete the ancestors and jins at ancient times, when they had the style of sobriety and solemn. In the Song Dynasty (960—1279) they became to be puppet show, and spreaded in the folk to be a cheerful folk acrobatics.
Stick-puppet Show is specialized at both its exquisite model and difficult performing skills. Nowadays, there are few people who can perform the show. Therefore, you can watch the show performed by the famed artist in Shufengyayun.
Unique Skills Recommendation：The Beauty of the World
The Beauty of the World is adopted from an excerpt of Sichuan Opera with the same name. It includes many difficult skills of stick-puppet, such as picking flowers, changing flowers, rotating handkerchief, and so on.
Rolling Light
Rolling Light is a unique skill of Sichuan Opera, and it’s also a classic clown play of Sichuan Opera. The actor’s lines is humor and not stick to one pattern. This excerpt has been invited to show in many countries and been highly praised. The famous artists who are the representative of Sichuan Light Opera in Shufengyayun perform it.
Pijin, a lazy intellectual liked gambling outside. To let him to realize his errors and mend his ways, his wife thought out a stratagem, which was rolling light. At last, Pijin was repentant of his errors.
Recommendation
Rolling Light, performed and accompanied by the original actors and assembly of Shufengyayun, has been recorded in video CD, which is sold in Shufengyayun to provide a chance to opera-lover for view and admire.

Service
Bowl Tea with a Lip
Chatting while drinking tea is an interest of quiet life of Sichuan people. Sichuan tea is rich in flavor but not strong, and it’s pure but bitter in flavor. Tea sets, including cup, lip, and pad, and bamboo tables and chairs make people to return to the past.
Traditional Massage
Traditional massage is an important element of Chinese medicine.? It can not only release the tiredness of travel, but also strengthen physique.
Taoerduo
Taoerduo is a special folk way of Chengdu people and it is a popular service in Chengdu teahouses. Shufengyayun teahouse offer this service.

Calliguaphy, Painting and Curio
There have been always many scholars in Sichuan Province. Seal, the four treasures of the study, calligraphy, painting and curio are shown in the gallery, and some of which are for sell.
Traditional Chinese Instruments & Clothes
Pipa-lute has the timbre of stillness, which is as the shape of itself; Erhu has the timbre of passion with a little sadness; Guqin-Chinese zither has been a symbol of wisdom and nobleness.? Each instrument has its own character, and it shows consideration for the bosom friend.? There are a great variety of instruments and traditional clothes shown in the gallery of Shufengyayun teahouse.

Sichuan Teahouse
Sichuan has teahouses in towns and cities everywhere; it has most teahouses in China. It really has a well-deserved reputation, not only because of the numerous teahouses, but also because of the special teahouse culture.? We can tell how the people of Sichuan like sitting in the teahouse from the antithetical couplet in their teahouses.
Teahouses carry the Sichuan local living style. It is an important social interaction and gathering place since ancient times.People who go to the teahouses are not really thirsty. Retired people pay several Yuan to go to the teahouse and sit there all day long to chat with each other. Sometimes, people bring guests to the teahouses. They eat melon or sunflower seeds while they chat and return home when they are tired of sitting there.
Teahouses are also places for people from various businesses and organizations to get together to hold trade talks or make deals. In recent years, more and more people go to teahouses for business talks.
In addition, sometimes when people quarrel a mediator will bring them to the teahouse. When their dispute is settled, the person who is in the wrong will pay for the tea. It is interesting that as soon as the quarrelers enter the teahouse and sit down to drink tea, they almost always cool down. With the help of the mediator their disputes can be easily settled. So the teahouses in Sichuan also have special social functions.
In the past, most crowded teahouses were those where theatrical performances were on show, such as storytelling, cross-talk (comic dialogue) and Sichuan opera.