9/29/2017 Beijing Opera
Beijing Opera is a long-living, over-160-years-history art performance genre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. There are four roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng (male characters), Dan (female characters), Jing (painted face male or elder male characters), Chou (male clown characters). In modern era, to follow up the development of people’s aesthetic awareness, Beijing Opera also varies different kind of version to attract audience.
Beijing Opera is a long-living, over-160-years-history art performance genre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. There are four roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng (male characters), Dan (female characters), Jing (painted face male or elder male characters), Chou (male clown characters). In modern era, to follow up the development of people’s aesthetic awareness, Beijing Opera also varies different kind of version to attract audience.
Original background from "The Palace Museum"