What is the origin of Peking Opera?

Beijing opera originated in Qianlong fifty-five years. During Ganlong's 80th birthday, four Hui classes, Chunsi, Sixi, Sanqing and Chuntai, who had performed in the south, also went to Beijing to watch Ganlong's 80th birthday performance. During the performance, four Hui classes cooperated with artists from Diao Han, Hubei, and their respective folk arts merged with each other.

Peking Opera originated in Beijing shortly after Huiban entered Beijing. It absorbed the characteristics of Anhui Opera, Han Opera, Shaanxi Opera and Kunqu Opera, and its main accent was Pi Huangqiang.

Characteristics of Peking Opera:

Peking Opera is mainly based on Hui and Han operas, and absorbs various local accents such as Kunqu Opera and Bangzi. It is characterized by Huang Er and Xipi as the main vocal cavity, and the qupai played by it mainly comes from Kunqu opera. Its initial business was divided into ten lines: health, Dan, cleanliness, ugliness, vice, foreign affairs, military, miscellaneous and vulgar, and then it gradually merged with the four lines of health, Dan, cleanliness and ugliness that we see now.

Each line of works has strict performance procedures, and has its own characteristics in singing, reading, doing and playing, showing the personality characteristics of different roles. Its performance art emphasizes the combination of reality and reality, which goes beyond the space and time limit of stage performance to the maximum extent.