What is the Chinese opera Tsing Yi?

Tsing Yi, also called blue shirt. It is a blue shirt worn by female characters in China traditional opera performances. Later, it was also used to refer to the role, that is, we often say Zheng Dan, which means the heroine. Generally play positive characters with good moral character, such as a good wife and mother, or a virtuous woman. The age stage is mainly youth or middle age. The four characteristics of traditional Chinese opera performance are singing, reading and acting. Tsing Yi, on the other hand, mainly sings, with a relatively small range of movements. For example, the image role of Dou E in Guan Hanqing's Dou E Yuan belongs to blue.

Before Dou E was executed.