On August 21, the Seventh Nationwide College Peking Opera Singing Seminar which lasted six days drew it’s curtain in Yantai City, Shandong Province. SYSU’s Lingnan Dramatic Club got two first prizes, five second prizes and the prize for excellent organization; the club was highly regarded by the seminar organizing committee.

All of the the participants of Lingnan Dramatic Club are freshmen, many of whom had never been on the stage before. Nontheless, they impressed the audience and the judges greatly with their impeccable performance and became the spotlight of the event. ; In the seminar subsequently, Wu Weimian, who is a sophomore of Chinese studies, gave an introduction on the history of Chinese ancient opera studies of SYSU’s Chinese department. He also read his thesis titled Three Traditional Theories on the Creation of Peking Opera, and was praised by President Sun Yuming, who is famous Peking Opera artist.

The list of winners:

The first prize winners:

Qing Yu ( Alumni Office of School of Business ): “Dream of the Boudoir”

Liu Jie (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the year 2006): “Suo Linnang”

The second prize winners:

Wang Qing ( Department of Chinese of the year of 2006) : “Suo Linnang”

Ye Yu ( Department of Chinese of the year of 2006): “Goddess of Heaven Scattering Flowers”

Yang Ya (School of Foreign Languages of the year of 2006): “Xie Yaohuan”

Wu Weijing (Department of Chinese of the year of 2007): “Xie Yaohuan”

Yuan Shuai (Master of School of Asian-Pacific Studies of the year of 2009): “ Forest of the Wild Boars”