The document discusses masks in Chinese opera and their meaning, then changes topics to discuss the acrobatic skills of Peking Opera performers which require extensive training, and finally changes topics again to describe how the music in Chinese opera differs from American opera through the use of instruments like the zither instead of horns.

4. Picture Not a Video Of Mask
Changing

5. • The colors of the masks show what the
emotions of the characters are, for ex. Purple
means: Uprightness , sophistication and cool
headedness. Green means: The character is,
Impulsive, violent and stubborn.

6. Topic Change To: Acrobats Of
Peking Opera
• The Chinese peking opera includes a lot of
stretching and jumping through obstacles.
The acrobats probably have to go through a
lot of training to do all the jumping and
flipping.

7. Chinese Acrobats

8. Final Topic Change: How The
Music Sounds
• The instruments are really different compared
to America’s opera instruments, for example:
They used an instrument called a “Zither”
which was invented three hundred years ago.
They also used a lot of strings instead of horns
like America.

9. What A Zither Looks Like

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