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Peking Opera Is Peking Opera anything like western opera?They have very little in common. Peking Opera is much more than mere opera. Peking Opera combines many art forms. Apart from singing and recitation, it includes traditional Chinese music, poetry, dancing, pantomime, elaborate costumes and make-up, acrobatics and martial arts.The demands from various art forms call for versatility on the part of the performers.An all-round top-notch Peking Opera performer, must be good-looking or attractive when appearing in make-up, of pleasing physical proportions, with a pair of expressive eyes and a rich variety of facial expressions.Whether of the warrior type or not, an actor must undergo years of fundamental training in martial skills so that every movement on the stage is gracefully and precisely executed and every pose assumed at the end of a movement makes the performer resemble a piece of well-executed sculpture, thereby increasing the aesthetic value of the acting.The foundation of Peking operaPeking Opera, also known as Ping Opera or Capital Opera, is China’s most popular kind of traditional opera, circulating in Beijing (as the center) and the rest of the country. Back in Year 55 during the reign of Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, the four Anhui troupes of Sanqing（三庆）, Sixi（四喜）, Chuntai （春台）and Hechun （春四）that were originally performing down in the south moved to Beijing gradually. They had cooperated with the Han tune artists from Hubei and accommodated part of the programs of Kun Opera and Qin Tune as well as their styles while assimilating the elements of local folk tunes before it finally became today’s Peking Opera through constant communication and integration.In terms of literature, performance, music and stage arts, Peking Opera has a set of standardized procedures of performance. The performance in literatureWith historical stories as the main content for performance, Peking Opera has about 1,300 programs, with those often on play being three to four hundred. T