What does the hip flask in Beijing Opera stand for?

In Beijing Opera, the hip flask represents the heart-turning kettle, which was used by the ancients to cheat or drink for fun.

The heart-turning pot comes from the forty-first time in the classic "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness": it is a silver hip flask carved with foreign gold. It is slightly thicker than a regular hip flask, but it has two holes at the bottom. When I opened the lid, I saw a diaphragm bucket in the middle.

Another opera, Zhuan Xin Hu, adapted from the story of Zhuan Xin Hu in the classic novel Three Heroes and Five Righteousness, has this track in Beijing Opera, Henan Opera, Huangmei Opera and other operas.

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As China's first martial arts work in the true sense, Three Heroes and Five Righteousness has had a far-reaching impact on modern storytelling, martial arts novels and even literature and art in China, and it can be called the originator of martial arts novels, thus setting off the climax of various martial arts literature works.

The chivalrous case-solving story in Three Heroes and Five Righteousness is complex and clear, and its language is popular, which has become the source of various operas, such as Beijing Opera Luan Jia, Welcome to the Queen, and Chen Zhou Food Release.

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