| Peking
Opera of China is a national treasure with a history
of 200 years. In the 55th year of the reign of
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790), the
four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital
and combined with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju
opera and Luantan in Beijing's theoretical circle
of the time. Through a period of more than half
a century of combination and integration of various
kinds of opera there evolved the present Peking
opera, the biggest kind of opera in China, whose
richness of repertoire, great number of artists
of performance and of audiences, and profound
influence are incomparable in China. |
