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Tell a story about a foreigner learning Beijing opera and martial arts.

Gefa was born in Iran and grew up in Britain. He came to Beijing to study Peking Opera at the age of 32, and it has been 14 years. Because he studied monkey play, everyone called him the foreign monkey king. In order to make foreigners understand Beijing Opera better, he adapted it into English. Every performance will find several ordinary foreigners to play small roles in the play, and the Chinese will play the land in this performance. "Blue-faced Dou Erdun stole the royal horse, red-faced Guan Gong fought Changsha ..." In the ticket hall of Chang 'an Grand Theatre, the reporter just threw a question to Jiang Bi, a British youth studying in the history department of Peking University. He generously sang the opera "Say Suddenly Face". Jiangbi has only been in China for two years, but he has become a Beijing opera fan. He said skillfully: "Beijing opera is very humorous, especially clowns." Nothing is ugly! Although the traditional cultures of different countries are different, art is interlinked, especially the unique dramatic language of martial arts dramas is more easily accepted by people all over the world. " When Jiang Bi came to Beijing for the first time, she was dragged to see a Peking Opera by her friends. "There was a scene. I saw an old man rowing with an oar. I think there is something wrong with dancing. The boat forgot to move to the stage. Later, I found that they only rode horses with whips, just like the Beijing opera "Picking up the Jade Bracelet". Just relying on the virtual seam of the heroine to feed the chickens and show the joy after picking up the jade bracelet, I told the place and time of the story vividly, and I was suddenly excited. Although I couldn't understand the plot when I went to the theater for the first time, and the songs and music I heard were so strange, their costumes and faces were so beautiful, and the martial arts scenes were just like China Kung Fu movies, so wonderful. It is really brilliant that Peking Opera can show people's activities so realistically without props. " Tian Jiaxin, who is in charge of publicity in Chang 'an Grand Theatre, recalled: "In 2005, the Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang in Beijing Peking Opera Theatre attracted a large number of foreign journalists stationed in Beijing, with Chinese and English subtitles. Throughout the performance, their eyes followed the actors on the stage for a while, and then kept shuttling back and forth between the performances and subtitles on the stage. According to Bilat, a reporter from Latin News Agency, "I'm really busy." Amal Hagri, a reporter from Al Jazeera who studied in China for a year, also took her husband and two children to the Chang 'an Grand Theatre to watch bilingual Peking Opera. Hagley said with interest: "Most foreigners watch Beijing Opera for excitement." In the eyes of foreigners, Peking Opera is the representative of thousands of years old civilization in China, which is why they come here. "