Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year 2011 Celebration in 1Borneo Shopping Mall.

Yick Nam Lion dance team performing. Among the events are Mask change performance, Acrobatic performance and Lion dance performance.

Face-Changing
(BianLian 變臉) is a traditional Chinese magic art of Sichuan opera.

Best kept secret on how the actors do that.

But we can enjoy a Face-changing show easily in 1Borneo in Malaysia during the Chinese New Year Festival.

Among the 1,000 over different variety of local operas in China. Sichuan opera is one of the oldest and facetious.

In Sichuan Opera are unique solo singing, percussion, comedians and the famous unique skill of : the face-changing.

Face-changing is a magic that puzzled you on how they change the face masks magically so many times and so fast.

This 300 years face-changing art is an important intangible cultural heritage in China. This secret has been passed down from one generation to the next within families. Only a few people have grasped this skill.