What are the main features of Beijing Opera?

Peking Opera, also known as Pingju and Peking Opera, is one of the quintessence of China and the most influential opera in China, with Beijing as the center and spread all over the country. The main features of Peking Opera are as follows:

Beijing opera is thought-provoking and mellow. The stage art of Beijing opera is in literature, performance, music, singing, gongs and drums, makeup, facial makeup and so on.

A set of regular and standardized procedures are mutually restrictive and complementary. As an artistic means to create a stage image, it is very rich and its usage is very strict.

In order to show a wider range of life and create more types of characters, Beijing opera requires higher comprehensiveness and integrity of its skills and higher aesthetic requirements for the shaping of its stage image.

Peking Opera has a wider range of life, more types of characters, stricter requirements on the comprehensiveness and integrity of skills and higher aesthetic requirements on the shaping of stage image. The roles of Peking Opera are divided into life, Dan, Jing, Ugliness, Miscellaneous, Martial Arts, Liu and so on. The last three lines are no longer independent. The roles of Peking Opera can be divided into four types: life, Dan, Jing and Ugliness.

Every profession has a performance program, and singing, recitation and performance have their own characteristics. The main performance of Beijing Opera is historical stories. There are more than 1300 traditional plays, and more than 3400 are often performed.