Dance Drama: Spine Dates
Author and Director: Zhang Jigang
Published by Peninsula Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2007
Medium: 1 DVD-9
DVD region code setting: All
Picture Format: NTSC, MPEG-2, Color
Soundtrack: Chinese
Subtitles: Chinese and English
Run time: 122 minutes
ISBN: 9787883678335
ISRC: CND010700380
EAN: 6937475388156

It is in the period when business of Jin (today Shanxi) merchants prospers. Suan Zao (literally spine date), daughter of the housekeeper of the Yin family, falls in love with a servant boy of family. But the housekeeper who covets the Yin family’s assets forces his daughter to marry the idiot son of his boss by poisoning the servant boy after whose death Suan Zao is dead of despair. The show displays the development history of Jin merchants' business through a tragic love story. It innovates with efforts in the dance, music, stage design, costume, prop and dressing, which are permeated with profound local styles and national feelings. It mirrors the ideas, culture and taste of a specific period of time in Shanxi Province.

商品名称：舞剧《一把酸枣》
导演/编剧：张继刚
介质：DVD
碟数：1
出版社：半岛音像出版社，2007
字幕：中、英文
ISBN：9787883678335
ISRC：CN-D01-07-0038-0/V.J7

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