Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) Taiwan's National Center for Traditional Arts on Tuesday announced the launch of the inaugural "Taiwanese Opera Competition," an event undertaken in concert with the promotion of various languages and dialects in Taiwan.
Music played for the deceased using the traditional <i>nanguan</i> (南管) and <i>beiguan</i> (北管) music forms celebrate the philosophy of life, morals and the values of Taiwanese, and therefore should not be discriminated against, an academic said on Saturday.
A video clip uploaded to the Internet on Friday showed a Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School music teacher surnamed Lu (呂) yelling at a group of students for giving a presentation on <i>nanguan</i> and <i>beiguan</i> music, and a “soul guiding” music piece for their report on traditional Chinese instruments.
Soul guiding is a Taiwanese folk custom comprised of rituals and music, said