The Peony Pavilion is an epic drama of love and death created by the playwright Tang Xianzu of Ming Dynasty over 400 years ago.Hou Qing re-tells the story with traditional Kunqu Opera, modern dancing and painting.The timeless classic and the same old emotions is thus expressed from different perspectives.The exhibition is a re-tell of the story of the Peony Pavilion in the same style the story in the famous narrative peom Pipa Xing(Journey with the Pipa) of Tang Dynasty was re-told with Pipa Ji (Journal of the Pipa) by Hou Qing.

The Peony Pavilion Exhibition is an extension of Pipa Ji (Journal of the Pipa) by Hou Qing(exhibited 2009 at Today Art Museum). HouQing has long been in objection of the advanced historical view of the West, which is widely advocated in art and rather more in many fields of humanity. Hou implements in his art the cycling historical view inherent in the Chinese approach to tradition. Hou incorporates his personal character and the Zeitgeist consciously into a mechanism that superfacially may be seen as re-construction of antiquities. Rather than opposing each other, tradition and innovation are presented in an integrated state. The Exhibition is all the more a multi-perspective presentation of the elementary forms of the classic Kunqu Opera art.