Tibetan epic King Gesar staged in Mandarin
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A Tibetan song and dance drama based on the world's longest epic poem, King Gesar, is being staged in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, for five days from Jan. 14 to 18.
It is the first time ever for the King Gesar story to appear on the stage in Mandarin Chinese.
"King Gesar" is a ballad that tells how the half-human, half-god Tibetan king of the 11th Century conquered the devils of other tribes and sought to help ordinary people.
The 1,000-year-old epic of King Gesar, with more than 120 episodes, is considered the crowning masterpiece of Tibetan folk literature.
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