Peking Opera belongs to folk music or not

Belonging to Simply put, Beijing Opera belongs to the ~Opera Music~, ~Opera Music~ belongs to the ~Ethnic Music~ so Beijing Opera belongs to the Ethnic Music. In more detail, the concept of folk music is: "from the folk, circulating in the folk, the expression of folk life, production of songs or music." That is, Chinese folk music can be divided into: folk songs, folk dance music, folk instrumental music, folk rap music and folk opera music. ~Opera music is the musical part of Chinese opera, including the singing and rhyming of the vocal part and the accompaniment, opening and passing music of the instrumental part. It is an important part of a comprehensive art that integrates drama, music, performance, acrobatics, choreography and other artistic means, and can focus on the content of the drama, and is the main symbol for distinguishing between different types of opera. This includes Peking Opera~ You can go to wikipedia to see how they are related~