Peking Opera is divided into

Peking Opera is divided into four types: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou.

1. Sheng

Sheng is a male role in Peking Opera. Sheng line includes several categories such as Lao Sheng, Xiao Sheng, Wu Sheng, Hong Sheng, Doll Sheng and so on. With the exception of the Red Sheng and the Hook-faced Wusheng, the Sheng line is generally plain-faced, and is known in the jargon of the trade as "Junzheng," which means that the costumes are clean and handsome.

2. Dan

The Dan line of Peking Opera plays a variety of female roles of different ages, personalities and identities. The Dan line is further divided into specialized lines such as Zheng Dan, Hua Dan, Hua Shirt, Dao Ma Dan, Wu Dan, Lao Dan, and so on.

3, net

Jing, also known as "flower face", "flower face". Mainly play in the character, quality or appearance of male characters with outstanding features. Facial make-up is used to depict the face, and wide and false voices are used when singing, with a wide range of performance movements to emphasize the character, temperament and momentum. Jungang is divided into three categories: Jungang, Jungang and Wu Jungang.

4, clown

Clown line, commonly known as "small flower face". Because of make-up on the bridge of the nose to smear a small piece of white powder, so the name "ugly". And because of the net line and the big flower face, two flower face side by side, also known as "three flower face". The term "ugly" refers to the lack of beauty, not exclusively to the quality of ugliness. The roles played by clowns include both sinister and cunning characters, as well as upright and kind-hearted figures. There are two types of clowns, namely Wen Chou and Wu Chou.

The line is the categorization of roles and actors, and it is a performance mode of character modeling on the opera stage formed after a long period of stage practice. Before the formation of Peking Opera, there were gugongs in ancient Chinese opera, and with the development of opera, the division of gugongs became more and more scientific.