Miguel is a 12﹣year﹣old boy. He and his family live in a small village in Mexico. Music is Miguel’s favorite in the world. But his family hates it. Every time they hear the boy say," I want to be a musician," they get really angry. This is because Miguel’s great-great grandfather was once a famous musician, but he left his family. Miguel finds out that his favorite musician, Ernesto de la Cruz, is probably his great﹣great grandfather. How exciting that is!

On the Day of the Dead（It’s a festival in Mexico for remembering the dead. On that day, Mexican people smile instead of crying. This is because they don’t think death is sad or scary. People stay with their families. They have their faces painted like funny skeletons）, the most amazing thing happens: Miguel enters the Land of the Dead! No one in the real world can see him. There, Miguel finds his family members. They have died. He also makes friends with Hector, a skeleton who loves music, too.

Miguel meets Ernesto de la Cruz and plays music in front of him. But soon he finds that Ernesto de la Cruz is, in fact, not a good person. The sun is rising, Miguel needs to go back to the real world, or he will be stuck in the Land of the Dead and lose his family. But time is running out. What happens to Miguel? Does he go back to his family?

You can find out the answers in the movie Coco（《寻梦环游记》）. It is playing in theaters now. There are no ghosts in the real world, but the movie is full of fun!

Lao She wrote Teahouse in 1957. The play shows audience life in China between 1898 and 1945. It takes place in a teahouse in old Beijing and it tells us the story of Wang Lifa and customers. It asks us to see the teahouse as the centre of the neighborhood. Finally, it say good-bye to old Beijing and its people.

The story starts in 1898 during the Qing Dynasty. It continues in 1916, and finally, it brings the audience to the end of the Anti Japanese War, in 1945. After the war, Wang loses the teahouse and dies.

Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. His parents sent him to the Teacher's School in Beijing and he learned to teach. From 1924 to 1929 he taught Chinese to the English in London. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories. He was named a “People’s Artist” and a “Great Master of Language”. He was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20^th century.

In Lao She’s Teahouse today, waiters bring tea to the customers and sell them delicious Chinese food. If you like Beijing Opera, folk music, acrobatics（杂技）or magic shows, you can enjoy them in the teahouse. Lao She’s Teahouse gives a wonderful welcome to everyone from China and from all over the world.