Pakistan Television to telecast Chinese folk opera cartoon series

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Pakistan Television (PTV) has announced it will telecast "Three Drops of Blood", a Chinese folk opera cartoon animation series, on its Urdu channel PTV-World, local media reported Saturday.

Local media quoted PTV managing director Hassan Immad Mohammadi as saying that the series would be telecast in six episode blocks on PTV-World every Saturday starting May 18, 2019.

He described "Three Drops of Blood" as being an important addition to the list of programs shown on PTV, adding that he believed that it would attract a huge number of viewers across Pakistan and abroad.

Short clips of the animated series were screened at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Friday evening and, on the occasion, PNCA director Jamal Shah lauded the cultural exchange between the two countries and added that the series emphasizes the similarities between the peoples of Pakistan and China.

"The colors of the series are bright and lively. It transforms costumes and facial marks in traditional opera into cartoon images with a distinct personality which impresses the audience," said series director Bai Zhijun.

"Three Drops of Blood", one of the classical masterpieces of China, was composed in 1918, and its script is derived from Yuewei Cottage Notes, a popular Qing Dynasty classical Chinese novel written by Ji Yun, a scholar of the Imperial Academy.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency