'Fables of the East' seeks child actors nationwide
- By Zhang Rui
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A 1,000-episode children’s TV series "Fables of the East" is recruiting a cast of thousands of children nationwide for its second season, China.org.cn reported.
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A poster of TV series "Fables of the East." [Photo/China.org.cn] |
The TV series, produced by China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and China Fables Film and TV Culture Co., Ltd., adapts the fables and stories behind well-known Chinese idioms, including stories involving ancient Chinese philosophers such as Confucius, Meng Zi and Zhuang Zi.
The TV series only has child actors and actresses, opening a new channel for children to learn and inherit excellent Chinese traditional culture, the producers said.
Hu Qili, chairman of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, hoped that it could function as "inheriting history and inspiring the future."
The "Fables of the East" crew and production team has built children actors training bases in Beijing, Shanghai, and provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shandong, Shanxi, and have been actively seeking talented children between the ages of six and 16.
The first season, with 125 episodes, involved more than 5,000 youngsters, mostly primary and high school students from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, none of whom were professionals. The second season will need more than 8,000 children.
Currently, the training base in Henan Province, with help from Henan Film & TV Group, has recruited 100 children for training; Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai bases also launched their own recruiting campaigns.
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