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Re: Shanghai questions

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-09-22 18:22

I don't speak or read Mandarin, so maybe the transliteration "JINGLING" has nothing to do with Chinese opera, but I'm curious about whether the name of this street has anything to do with music. Is it an area with a lot of concert venues or music stores?

I ask because the type of role generally transliterated into the Roman alphabet as a "jing" role in Beijing opera and traditional theater is a grotesque villain. The early 20th century theater and film actor Hong Jingling took this stage name because he specialized in these weird characters, with heavy prosthetic makeup and over-the-top acting. But then there's the capitol city of Beijing and there's also the jinghu, one of the opera's traditional stringed instruments (two strings, played with a bow), not villainous at all, as far as I know. Of course the jinghu might sound villainous if badly-played.

It's easy to be mistaken about words that might look alike in the Roman alphabet but not sound much alike in Mandarin, so maybe these various jings belong to different contexts that have nothing to do with each other, but does anyone here happen to know for sure?

Lelia
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