Weekly culture & leisure guide (Jan 3-10)

Concert with a strong Chinese flavor

The Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall will stage a New Year concert on Jan 8 for enthusiasts of traditional Chinese music.

The concert will feature a dozen popular works, all performed with traditional Chinese musical instruments, such as the pipa, konghou, guzheng, guqin, xun,and erhu.

Among the best know performers are Fang Jinlong (playing the pipa), Zhang Zisheng (playing the guqin), Lu Lu (playing the konghou) and Cheng Haoru (playing the guzheng).

If you go:

19:30, Jan 8, Forbidden City Concert Hall, inside Zhongshan Park, Xichang'an Avenue, Xicheng district, Beijing 010-6559 8285 北京市西城區西長安街中山公園內中山音樂堂