Twice in a year, namely Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, our Chinese Student and Scholar Association would organize a celebration party which would be called, in American terms, a variety show. Being an inactive member of the Chinese community here, I had only been to these events once before. After five years in the United States, however, I started to miss some of the stuff I grew up with but hated since adolescence, in a way similar to my rediscovery of tea.
This year's show was the biggest and fanciest so far, held in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with the help and for the benefit of the whole Chinese community in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Professionals like these two pictured performing "Changing Face", a famous trick of the Sichuan Opera, were invited from Sichuan, China.
My friend, Xiang, and his partner, Rui, were the must-have comedians for any of our shows, performing Xiangsheng, a popular form of comedic performance in Mandarin.
This year's show was the biggest and fanciest so far, held in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with the help and for the benefit of the whole Chinese community in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Professionals like these two pictured performing "Changing Face", a famous trick of the Sichuan Opera, were invited from Sichuan, China.
My friend, Xiang, and his partner, Rui, were the must-have comedians for any of our shows, performing Xiangsheng, a popular form of comedic performance in Mandarin.
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