A story of storytelling

A recent festival celebrates China's myriad traditional narrative-performance genres, Cheng Yuezhu reports.

China's traditional storytelling genres are so diverse that the umbrella term quyi－literally, the meaning of art and songs－was created to encompass them.

Today, 127 of China's 1,372 national-level intangible cultural heritage projects are categorized as quyi.

These were spotlighted at the 2020 National Intangible Cultural Heritage Quyi Week in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, from Oct 9 to 14.