BetweenJuly 21to 24, the originaldrama"Kong Qiu - What Are We Talking About When We Talk about Confucius?" wasstaged at the Beijing People's Art Theatre.

Taking Confucius’s thought of “RestrainingOneselfand ObservingtheProprieties”as the main line and focusing onthe important historicmoments, the drama makes up for the deficiencyin historicalrecords withrationalimagination.At the same time, a piano version of the Guqin song “Running Water”runs throughoutthe whole drama witha narrator’s voicewhichtakes the audience to the pre-Qin era more than 2,000 years ago,displaying artistic innovationbasedonfacts and research.

It is learned that, the drama, as abeneficiary of the 2022 annual funding project of Beijing Culture and Art Fund, has been selected into the 2023 “Beijing Stories”excellent theater show. Itwill,at the invitation of the National Theatreof China, alsogo to Nishan in Shandong Province for the customized premiere atthe grand theater in August.