Today me and my assignment group mates go for an interview of people who do Chinese opera at a temple near my hostel because there is a festival of Birthday of one of the Chinese God, Guan Di. We interviewed the boss and also the performer, and the boss told us that this is maybe the last generation of this opera group already because there is no youngster want to learn this kind of art or continue the culture. I feel sad for that, because this is consider one of the culture or art of the Chinese people in Malaysia if this culture is gone, there is not much more cultures that we Chinese people can tell or show to the other races.
This is a small opera group which contain mostly their own family members and friends only. One of the grandson of the boss is about 10-13 years old and he can play very well music of the opera. We have the chance to watch their performance but we found out that there was no people are watching their performance. There is a table of teenagers playing 'UNO' at the table beside and all the people around is just doing their own thing. Although they have no audiences, they also very focus and performed it very well and their acting is so good. I think they are not aim for the people to watch their performance but to perform for the God.
One of the little kid take some roasted pork for us and also give us candies and also water. We are well treated and they all are very friendly to us and we also talk with one of the performers about her family and so on. In this interview I learned a lots of things and not because of the assignment I won't be able to know more about my own race culture.
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