What era did Peking Opera originate in and what is its glorious history

Peking Opera originated in the Qing Dynasty.

Peking Opera, once known as Ping Opera, is one of the five major Chinese opera genres, which is mainly composed of xi pi and er huang, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums, and is regarded as the national treasure of China, and the top of the list of the Three Tripods of Chinese Opera.

Huizhou Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the Qing Dynasty Qianlong 55 years (1790), the original performance in the south of the three Qing, four happy, Chuntai, and spring, the four Huizhou class one after another into Beijing, they and the Han tune artists from Hubei, and at the same time accepted the Kunqu, Qinqiang part of the repertoire, tunes and performance methods, absorbed some local folk tunes, through continuous exchange, integration, and eventually formed the Beijing Opera. After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the court of the Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China gained unprecedented prosperity.

Peking Opera traveled all over the world and became an important medium for introducing and spreading traditional Chinese art and culture. It is distributed throughout China, with Beijing as the center. On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

History of Development

In 1790, four Huizhou Opera classes from southern China, the Sanqing Class, the Si Xi Class, the He Chun Class and the Chuntai Class (known as the Four Huizhou Classes), arrived in Beijing one after another. The first Hui troupe to come to Beijing was the Sanqing troupe, which mainly sang the "Erhuang" sound, and because of its rich sound and repertoire, it gradually overpowered the Qinqiang (Qin) opera troupe, which was prevalent in Beijing at the time. Many of the Qin Opera actors and actresses transferred to Hui Ban, resulting in the fusion of Hui and Qin Operas. Subsequently, three other Anhui classes, the "Four Happiness Class", the "Chuntai Class" and the "Hechun Class", also came to Beijing, causing the decline of the Kun Opera, which had been prevalent for many years, and the actors of the Kun Opera were also transferred to the Anhui classes. Peking Opera

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (around 1828), Hubei actors came to Beijing and brought Han tunes (Chu tunes, Xipi tunes), and many Han tunes artists joined Huiban and performed on the same stage with Huiban, forming a merger of Xipi and Erhuang and forming the so-called "Pihuang Opera". At this time in the capital formed in the Pihuang opera, by the Beijing voice and tone of the influence of the characteristics of the "Beijing sound".

Later, as they often performed in Shanghai, the Shanghai people called this kind of Pihuang Opera with Beijing characteristics "Beijing Opera", also called "Beijing Opera". Later, after the success of the Northern Expedition and the unification of the country, Beijing was renamed Peking, and "Peking Opera" was renamed "Ping Opera". And because of the rapid development of the Pingju opera, so that its artistic level in the top of the Chinese opera, and later popular in China, modern scholars Qixian even think that the Pingju opera is the essence of the traditional Chinese drama, so the Pingju opera is also known as the "National Opera".