This undated file photo shows the Xiqu Centre at the West Kowloon Cultural District. (ROY LIU / CHINA DAILY)
HONG KONG – Peng Liyuan, the wife of President Xi Jinping, visited the Xiqu Centre of the West Kowloon Cultural District on Thursday afternoon and chatted with young actors, members of a performance troupe and volunteers.
Peng presented a collection of traditional Chinese theatre libretti as a gift for the center. The compilation of the collection was initiated by the late well-known literary historian Zheng Zhenduo, and took several decades to complete. It has important historical and artistic value and represents a major achievement in safeguarding the national cultural heritage of traditional Chinese theatre.
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Peng also watched a rehearsal of Cantonese opera excerpts by the Tea House Rising Stars Troupe at the Tea House of the Xiqu Centre and a rehearsal of the Hong Kong Gaudeamus Dunhuang Ensemble before visiting the exhibition "A Thousand Faces: Cantonese Opera Legend Yau Sing-po".
Peng is accompanying Xi who will inspect the city and attend a meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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