This document provides information about various festivals and theatrical forms from different Asian cultures. It includes details about the Yi Peng lantern festival in Thailand where people float sky lanterns called khom loi to make wishes. It also describes the Loy Krathong water lantern festival in Thailand. Information is given about the Japanese art of taiko drumming and noh theater, the Indonesian shadow puppet theater of wayang kulit, and details about kabuki theater and Beijing opera, including their costumes, makeup, and storytelling techniques.

2. PRE-ASSESSMENT
•MATCHING TYPE: READ THE FOLLOWING ITEMS CAREFULLY,
THEN MATCH COLUMN A WITH THE CORRECT ANSWER IN
COLUMN B.

3. 1. IT IS A LANTERN FESTIVAL
CELEBRATED IN THAILAND,
MOSTLY RECOGNIZED FOR ITS
FLOATING SKY LANTERNS
KNOWN AS KHOM LOI.

4. 2. IT IS A WATER LANTERN
FESTIVAL, OCCURS ON THE
EVENING OF THE FULL MOON
DURING THE TWELFTH
MONTH OF THE THAI LUNAR
CALENDAR.

5. 3. IT CONVEYS TWO MEANINGS:
THE HEARTBEAT AND THE
CHILDREN OF THE DRUM.
4. IT IS THE OTHER TERM THAT
PERTAINS TO THE TAIKO
DRUMMERS.

6. 5. IT INVOLVES ELABORATELY
DESIGNED COSTUMES, EYE-
CATCHING MAKE-UP,
OUTLANDISH WIGS, AND
ARGUABLY MOST IMPORTANTLY,
THE EXAGGERATED ACTIONS
PERFORMED BY THE ACTORS.

7. 6. IT IS A JAPANESE WHICH
THEMES OFTEN RELATE TO
DREAMS, SUPERNATURAL
WORLDS, GHOSTS, AND
SPIRITS.

8. 7. IT IS AN INDONESIAN FORM OF
SHADOW PUPPETRY, HOLDS THE
AUDIENCE'S ATTENTION WITH
RIVETING STORYLINES
EXECUTED MASTERFULLY BY
PUPPETEERS

9. 8. IT IS ANOTHER TERM
THAT REFERS TO THE
PUPPETEERS OF AN
INDONESIAN THEATE

10. 9. IT IS STYLIZED ACTION,
SINGING, DIALOGUE, MIME,
ACROBATIC FIGHTING AND
DANCING TO REPRESENT A
STORY OR DEPICT DIFFERENT
CHARACTERS AND THEIR
FEELINGS.

11. 10. IT IS ALSO CONSIDERED
ESSENTIAL TO THE AESTHETIC
OF BEIJING OPERA ALONGSIDE
WITH MAKE-UP.

12. FESTIVALS

13. LOY KRATHONG
• A water lantern festival, occurs on
the evening of the full moon
during the twelfth month of the
thai lunar calendar.
 It is less known to outsiders, but it is a massive
celebration in THAILAND.
 As a local thai woman said, "it is a way to say sorry for
what you do to the river during the rest of the year."

14. YI PENG
A lantern festival in
Thailand, is the event most
people recognize for its
floating sky lanterns
known as Khom Loi.

15. YI PENG
 People come from all over the world to select a khom loi
lantern to release into the sky.
• Often people write a wish on the outside of the lantern, and it
is considered good luck to watch your lantern until it
disappears.
 A khom loi is made of thin tissue paper with a crossed
base, which supports a wax heat source. You have to
break up the wax before lighting it to sustain the flame.

16. TAIKO
• A traditional Japanese drum with
limitless rhythmic possibilities.
• Kodo's mission is to explore these
possibilities, and in the process,
forge new directions for a vibrant
living art form.
In Japanese, the word "Kodo" holds a double meaning.
It can be translated as "heartbeat," the primal source of
all rhythm.

17. • Indeed, the great taiko is thought to be
reminiscent of a mother's heartbeat as felt
from the womb, and babies are often lulled to
sleep by its thunderous vibrations.
• However, if read in a different context, Kodo
can also mean "children of the drum," which
reflects the group's desire to play the drums
with the simple heart of a child.

19. ASIAN THEATRICAL
FORMS

20. KABUKI
•Is an art form rich in
showmanship. It involves
elaborately designed
costumes,
eyecatching make-up, outlandish wigs, and,
arguably, the actors' exaggerated actions.

21. KABUKI
•It is a traditional japanese form of theater with roots
tracing back to the edo period.
•It is recognized as one of japan's three major
classical theaters along with noh and bunraku
and has been named as a UNESCO intangible cultural
heritage.

22. NOH THEATER
•Noh theater in japan is
structured around song and
dance.
•Movement is slow, language is poetic, the tone is
monotonous, and costumes are rich and heavy.

23. NOH THEATER
•Plots are usually drawn from legend, history,
literature, and contemporary events.
•Themes often relate to dreams, supernatural
worlds, ghosts, and spirits.
•One key element of NOH is the masks that the shite
(leading character) wears.
•They tell the audience what kind of character is being
portrayed.

24. WAYANG KULIT
•An Indonesian form of
shadow puppetry, holds the
audience's attention with
riveting storylines
executed masterfully by the
dhalang, or puppeteer.

25. WAYANG KULIT
•The puppets are made of buffalo
hide and intricately designed,
down to the most minute detail of
costume and color, to help the
audience distinguish between the
different characters.

26. BEIJING OPERA/PEKING OPERA
•Is a synthesis of stylized action, singing, dialogue,
mime, acrobatic fighting, and dancing to
represent a story or depict different characters
and their feelings of gladness, anger, sorrow,
happiness, surprise, fear, and sadness.

27. BEIJING OPERA/PEKING OPERA
•The characters may be loyal or treacherous,
beautiful or ugly, good or bad.
•Their images are always vividly manifested in
bright costumes that show the styles of ancient
china.

28. BEIJING OPERA/PEKING OPERA
•Make-up and sometimes masks are essential to the
aesthetic of Beijing Opera.
•The colors are rich and depict different characters
using the symbolism of color.
•Black will often represent intelligent characters,
while white indicates wickedness.

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