As a cultural power, which drama has been circulating in China for the longest time?

There should only be Peking Opera. If you count the history of Beijing opera in the past, it will be more than 2000 years. Peking Opera has a history of 200 years from Qing Dynasty to now!

Peking Opera continues to this day, mainly by inheritance. All the tricks and styles of Beijing opera actors are learned from their own teachers and predecessors and passed down from generation to generation. Peking Opera began in the Qing Dynasty, because the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty gave people time to pursue art.

Beijing opera was not built in a day, but it took a long time. Peking Opera grew up with Beijing and was born in Beijing. However, Peking Opera absorbed the essence of thousands of years of drama art and local operas, adapted to the needs of people in the Qing Dynasty, and gradually developed, absorbed and matured.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Geyang Opera and Shaanxi Opera were the most influential operas in Beijing. At that time, Geyang Opera was ok. Many Wang Fu families have Geyang Opera Troupe, but the Shaanxi Opera is miserable. Shaanxi Opera, also known as Northwest Opera and Bangzi Opera, is a northern opera performance, which was very popular at first. Later, because of Wei Changsheng, Shaanxi Opera was banned.

During the Qianlong period, Huizhou opera was valued and Han opera came again. Anhui Anhui Opera and Hubei Han Opera, once Beijing Opera and Shaanxi Opera, merged with each other. They learn from each other and communicate with each other. In order to make the audience recognize them more, they performed operas that Beijingers love to watch. Finally, they merged and became a new kind of drama, namely Beijing Opera.

If Peking Opera has been circulating for a long time, I think it began to circulate two thousand years ago, but it is not the present Peking Opera. The past was a mess. Nowadays, Peking Opera is a fusion of various operas and an integration and promotion of all local operas. Peking Opera is the fusion of folk operas in different regions, from difference to unity, and finally to standardization.