Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.

As we all know, there are four types of role in Peking opera today - namely, the sheng (male role), dan (female role), jing (painted face) and chou (clown). The sheng is the male protagonist ...

Plays, Peking opera, Cantonese opera ... How do you make it into a two- or two-and-a-half-hour opera?” Sheng said he replied, “Look, someone’s got to do this. And I think you and I could ...

It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai.

In 2008, Kunqu opera was officially inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of ...

1988 Hong Kong film follows Yu Jim-yuen, the master of the Peking opera school in Kowloon whose pupils included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Painted Faces is a dramatised biopic of Yu Jim-yuen ...

Chinese sheng player Wu Tong and Japanese sho player Mayumi Miyata perform in Beijing on March 29 ... often used in folk music, opera and orchestras. The sho, however, remained more specialized, ...

Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.