Baisha (Baksa in the Toisanese language, 白 沙 镇 ), in Taishan County, Guangdong Province, was the ancestral home of many of the first Canadian-Chinese. Their descendants live all over Canada, and used to predominate before the 1980s in the Chinatowns of Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Banff and Edmonton, and US West Coast cities such as San Francisco and Seattle. See: West Coast of the United States West Coast, New Zealand West Coast, Tasmania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area - Total - Land - Water - % water 369. ...
Based on observations of Chinese-Canadian elders living in Edmonton between 1980 and 2005, it would seem that the Taishan language spoken in Baisha in the mid-20th Century differed somewhat from that spoken in Taicheng (Hoiseng in the Hoisan language, 台 城 ), the county seat of Taishan (Hoisan, 台 山 县 ). Indeed, the pronunciation was more or less the same as that of people living across the river in the next county, Kaiping (Hoiping in the Toisanese language, 开 平 ). One notable difference can be seen in the shift of certain vowel sounds, as follows: 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
The Baisha variant of the Taishan language is fading amongst the descendants of Canadian-Chinese, as Cantonese and Mandarin become more dominant. The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ...
April 1845: Baisha achieves a great success in the same theater by playing the role of Sasaki Takatsuna in the drama "Kamakura Sandaiki"; the roles of Princess Toki and Miuranosuke are played by Bandô Shûka I and Ichimura Uzaemon XII.
Octobre 1859: Baisha plays at the Kado no Shibai the roles of Yoshitsune and Yokawa no Zenji Kakuhan in the drama "Yoshitsune Sembon Zakura"; the roles of Shizuka Gozen and the fox Genkurô are played by Arashi Rikaku II and Onoe Tamizô II.
November 1864: Mimasu Baisha I takes the name of Mimasu Daigorô V at the Minamigawa no Shibai, playing in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura"; the performance is interrupted one day by a big brawl within the theater between members of the Shinsengumi and rivals.
Baisha xiyue (Chinese for "Baisha fine music") is one of the two surviving forms of traditional music of the Naxi (also spelled Nakhi or Nahi) people of Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China, known as "Naxi ancient music".
Baisha is a town located ten kilometres north of Lijiang, and was the capital of the independent Naxi kingdom before it was annexed by the Yuan Empire in 1271.
Baisha xiyue is a classical orchestral musical form, with 24 qupai (tunes), played on antique Chinese musical instruments, such as flute, shawm, Chinese lute, and zither.
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