Pear Garden

Pear Garden
Pear Garden
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	梨園
Simplified Chinese	梨园
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Líyuán
Japanese name
Kanji	梨園
Hiragana	りえん
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Rien

The Liyuan or Pear Garden was the first known royal performing arts and musical academy in China. Founded during the Tang dynasty by Emperor Xuanzong (712–755),^[1] it is an example of an early institutional academy of performing arts and music.

The Tang dynasty (618–907) is sometimes known as "The Age of 1000 Entertainments".^{[citation needed]} Emperor Xuanzong established a school in the palace city Chang'an (now Xi'an) for performances in music, dancing, and acting. Three hundred musicians and performers were trained annually under the supervision of the emperor, who sometimes joined in the training as well as the performances.^[1] The Pear Garden, so named after the pear trees planted inside, was an acting school established to produce a form of drama that was primarily musical, although this suffered from the vicissitudes of the An Lushan Rebellion. Performers were commonly called "Children of the Pear Garden", and in later dynasties the phrase "Pear Garden" was used to refer to the world of Chinese opera in general.^{[citation needed]}

In Japan, the Rien refers to the Kabuki society.

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^ ^a ^b Tan Ye (2008). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater. Scarecrow Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0810855144.

External links[edit]

Pear Garden in Encyclopædia Britannica

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[dictionary-1] Tan Ye (2008). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater. Scarecrow Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0810855144.

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