Peking Opera

Do you want to enjoy the famous Peking opera during your Beijing tour? The famous Liyuan Theater is the most famous theater to play Peking opera in Beijing. You will deeply know the Chinese famous opera and enjoy this art.

The famous Beijing Liyuan Theater which is the first tea house style theater opened by Beijing Qianmen Hotel and Beijing Peking Opera Theater in October 1990 is chosen by many tourists in Beijing night tour. Liyuan Theater is located in Qianmen Hotel in Hufang Bridge Xuanwu District. It gets the “best night stage” in Beijing tile in seven years. You will be pleased to enjoy the Peking opera show here.

There is consisted of play hall, exhibition hall and fairs and sales hall three parts in Liyuan Theater. There are the stage and audience seats in play hall. The stage is eight meters high, twelve meters wide and seven meters deep. On the two sides of the stage, there are the couplets wrote by dramatists Weng Ouhong and Liu Bingsen. Around the auditorium, there are eight large scale Peking opera facial makeup and 14 Peking opera figures colored drawing screens. There are totally 800 seats in the three ticket sections including. The Liyuan Theater is similar to the old opera theater custom. You will know the more than 200 years’ development of the Peking opera there. Audience can also taste various Beijing snacks and tea when you are enjoying the Peking opera show. There are the displays in the exhibition hall about the development of the Peking opera. Tourists in Peking opera bus tour can choose and buy Peking opera handiworks and souvenirs. If you like, you can also take photos wearing opera clothes and drawing facial makeup. That will be a special experience.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know much about Peking opera. Most of the audiences in the theater are foreigners and the lists of plays are highlights from operas. In the hall, there is electron show screen. The words of the play can be shown on the screen with both Chinese and English. Many foreign countries’ leaders have enjoyed Peking opera here.

Liyuan Theater is the first art theater in Beijing. There are famous and traditional Beijing Peking opera troupes every day. The Three Divergences, Farewell to My Concubine, Picking up Jade Bracelet and Steal Silver and so on are all the main plays here. They are chosen by many tourists.

Beijing Peking Opera Theater which was built in 1979 is the largest Peking opera show troupe in Beijing. The Beijing Peking Opera Theater has very important position in Chinese traditional opera field. It is very important in Beijing and famous in home and abroad. Many Peking opera juniors play well in the Beijing Peking Opera Theater and they are welcomed by the audience. Many of them win the high prize.

Beijing Peking Opera Theater is located in 30 Haihuxili Fengtai District Beijing. It was set up in February 1979 in Beijing. The predecessor of the Beijing Peking Theater is the Beijing Peking Opera troupe consisted of Mei, Shang, Cheng, Xun four large schools and Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Zhang Junyqiu, Qiu Shengjie and Zhao Yanxia. This troupe is very large. There are various schools and abundant operas. The troupe is famous in home and abroad. The theater has Yituan, Mei Lanfang troupe and youth troupe. There is also art office, books dataoffice, perform office, Peking Opera coach center and administration office and so on offices. There are totally more than 700 people. There are Mei Baojiu, Zhang Xuejin, Zhao Baoxiu, Chi Xiaoqiu, Yan Shouping, Du Zhenjie, Li Hongtu and Wang Rongrong and so on more than 30 country-level performers. After the foundation of the Beijing Peking Opera Theater, there are more than 300 plays including different school’s representative plays and traditional plays. The theater also pushes out new plays under the creative thought direction. Many new plays get prizes in Beijing and China.

The players always go to play in foreign countries. They have gone to America, England, France, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong and so on different countries and areas. They got high praise from different countries. Peking Opera has gone into the world stage.

Besides the most famous Beijing Peking Opera Theater, there are also many other theaters which show Peking Opera such as the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater and Liyuan Theater and so on.

The famous Beijing Liyuan Theater is the first tea house style theater opened by Beijing Qianmen Hotel and Beijing Peking Opera Theater in October 1990. Liyuan Theater is located in Qianmen Hotel in Hufang Bridge Xuanwu District. It gets the “best night stage” in Beijing tile in seven years. You will be pleased to enjoy the Peking opera show here. We will arrange the night show for you if you are interested in the famous Peking opera.

Now the spring in Beijing is coming and the best time for traveling is coming too. Would you like to have a Beijing tour during this beautiful period? Since so rich in tourism resources that all the visitors will full of enjoyment.

During Beijing tour, besides a lot of world famous attractions to visit, tourists also have a lot of wonderful things to do. Enjoy a Peking Opera Show will be a nice choice. Peking Opera as the cultural legacy with a long history gains a high reputation both among domestic and foreign tourists. According to incomplete statistics, every year there are a lot of Peking Opera Shows holding overseas with more than tens of thousands of actors. Every New Year’s Day, the state leaders will be in Zhongnanhai to watch the New Year Peking Opera Show. With such a high reputation, tourists should not miss the excellent performance during your Beijing trip.

The art of Peking Opera stage in the various aspects of the literary, performing, music, singing, percussion, makeup, mask, long-term stage practice through countless artists, constitute a set of mutual constraints, metrical and standardization programs complement each other. It is very rich in art means to create the image of the stage, while the usage is very strict. Peking Opera in the beginning of the formation, it entered the palace, making it grow and develop very different from the local operas. Require it to be the performance of the wider areas of life, want it to create more types of characters, the comprehensiveness of its skill, integrity requirements more stringent, and its aesthetics to create the image of the stage have higher demands. Thus, the performing arts tend to be more the actual situation with the technique of expression. The unique atmosphere of Peking Opera Show will leave a deep impression to the tourists of Beijing tour.

Also during the trip, tourists will learn more about the history of Peking Opera. Peking Opera, formed in Beijing after 1840 and popular in the 20th century. During that period it gained the reputation of the “National Opera”. Now it is still the impact of national operas. Its line of business is a comprehensive and mature performance is momentum Hiromi, which is still the representative of modern Chinese drama. After the trip you will find your tour to Beijing really meaningful.

Peking Opera is the “National Opera” in China and it is famous all over the world. During the tour to Beijing, besides enjoying the beautiful natural landscape and the historical sightseeing, enjoy a Peking Opera Show will be really wonderful. The old theaters usually play the classical repertoire of Peking Opera. If you are interested in Peking Opera, you could order the tickets through the internet.

Peking Opera is a special make-up with national characteristics. It is based on certain personality, temperament or a particular type of figures for the use of certain colors. Red mask relate to the warriors of strong, such as Guan Yu, Qie Wei and Chang Yuchun; black mask in Peking Opera reflects staunch, upright, brave and even reckless, such as Bao Zheng, Zhang Fei and Li Kui; yellow mask reflects vicious brutality, such as Yuwen Chengdu and Wade; blue or green mask in Peking Opera, said some rough and crude hot-tempered characters, such as Dou Ambassador, Ma Wu; white mask general said the traitor, the bad guys, such as Cao Cao and Zhao Gao.

As each historical figure or a certain type of person has an approximate spectral type, like singing and the music, so it is called “Facebook” in Peking Opera. On the source of the Peking Opera Mask, the general view from the mask. Color painting of Peking Opera facial makeup is basically divided into three categories: rubbing face, face towel and hook face. The original role of Peking Opera Mask is just exaggerated the characters of the facial parts and facial textures, exaggerated the performance of the dramatis personae of personality, psychological and physiological characteristics, in order to service for the entire drama of the plot. But later the mask of Peking Opera has changed from simple to complex, from coarse to fine, from outside to inside, from shallow to deep, which becoming a nation of characteristics, to the facial expression means for the Graphic Arts.

The role of the mask in Peking Opera, in addition to said character, it could also implied the role of the various situations, such as Xiang Yu’s eyes painted “crying”, suggesting that his tragic ending; Bao Zheng frown hinted that he thought hard to worry about; Monkey with monkey-shaped face suggestive he is a monkey in deed. Another role of the Peking Opera Mask is close to the audience psychological distance.

China enjoys a very long and glorious history so besides many beautiful landscapes and historical sites there are also some traditional cultural heritages in the old country. And Peking Opera is very popular among foreign tourists from all over the world. Enjoying a Peking Opera Show during the tour to China will be really nice.

Peking Opera is the “National opera” in China and it is famous all over the world. It was born in 1840 and prevailing during the period of 1930s and 1940s. Now it is still great drama of national impact. The comprehensive line of business, performance maturity and macro momentum of Peking Opera made it the representative of modern Chinese dramas. Quintessence-Peking Opera has the history of more than 200 years.

Singing, reading, doing, playing are the four means of the art and of four basic skills of Peking Opera Show. “Sing” refers to the concert, “read” refers to a musical monologue, the two means complement each other; “do” means the physical movement of the dance, “play” refers to the art of martial arts and turned down.

Beijing Opera Facial Mask is a special kind of makeup method with national characteristic. As each historical figure or a certain type of people have a kind of approximate spectral type, like sing, play music must follow the same music, so called “Facebook.” Beijing Opera Facial Masks is an art popular all over the world and many opera lovers are fond of it. So it was recognized as the label of the traditional culture and identity of China. Person’s face painted in a color to symbolize the person’s personality and characteristics, role and destiny, which is a major feature of Peking Opera that can help understand the story. Simply put, red-faced with a compliment, on behalf of the gallant; black-neutral on behalf of fierce intellectual; blue faces and green for neutral faces representing the hero of the bush; yellow face and white face with derogatory, on behalf of fierce fraud; gold face and silver face is mysterious, demon on behalf of God.

Traditional repertoire of Peking Opera is about a thousand, often played about three or four hundred. The themes of Peking Opera are always about the historical themes such as political and military struggle, the story mostly from historical romance and small talk. On November 16th 2010, Peking Opera was on the list of the “Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage”.

Peking Opera is the quintessence of one of its clothing but also with a strong Chinese characteristic. Peking Opera costumes into coats, two suits, three coats and cloud shoulder four categories. Peking Opera coat is one clothing line of business within the division, and its existence is for the actors to create the role service. From a technical function in terms of the tube, mix, bar, Le, the so-called management and maintenance of clothing, responsible actor in the show serve dress, special characters Zhale, coat, have strong skills in the management of operation and the name of fashion identify and create different types of people dress, this branch of the performance of clothing has played a role in ensuring, for the artistic integrity, to achieve the desired effect, playing a fund-raising wisdom and ability, coat line of business dealing in art has its own scope and characteristics.

Coat class name in the use of various apparel has it a certain range, such as: the performance of the emperor and the imperial court officials and other names as the characters typically wear python, occupying local officials wearing official clothing, but both python and official clothing belongs to court dress and dress. The identity of the emperor is such as “the roof” in Liu, Peking Opera “Golden Water Bridge” in the Emperor and so on. As the Prince of “Yuanmen cut child” in the Zhaode Fang, as generals, Lian, Lin Guanju Prime Minister, other Zhaotingmingguan, Minister for the DPRK, see the emperor in the face must be worn python. Another court in each historical period has been called “bandits” and dare to court rival, who dare to defy world opinion, but also dare to wear clothes or himself emperor or python Zhanshanweiwang. Such as: Chao Gai, Song Jiang. Prefect of the performance of local officials, the magistrate may wear official clothing, there is a line on stage, Peking Opera “Xiangfu seven items official”, also shows considerable wear with official clothing caught in this capacity, such as the “seven items Zhima Guan” in the magistrate “Sue San” is necessary in the Pan, Liu Bingyi and so on. Another Peking Opera novel of women’s clothing styles – the costume, it produces breakthrough in the traditional system of Peking Opera costumes and performing the stylized suitcase, Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang costume is in the planning of rehearsal, Mr. “diffusing” when for innovation, Mr. Mei draws on ancient paintings of fairy costumes, a change in the traditional costumes large flat, forming a plum’s costume series, now has a new history of women play the main dress.

Tourists in Beijing can enjoy Peking Opera show in National Grand Theatre, Liyuan Theatre and Mei Lanfang Theatre and so on good theatre in Beijing.

Beijing National Grand Theatre, Beijing Liyuan in Qianmen Hotel and Mei Lanfang Theatre all are good places to enjoy Peking Opera; Peking Opera, Beijing Hutong, Peking duck and Beijing Forbidden City represent different styles Beijing culture and all are treasure in Beijing. Peking Opera plays an important in the China history all the way and was the main recreation project for ancient people. Peking Opera culture has a long history and the contents of Peking Opera are very rich that can be showed in different performance styles, such as the types of facial makeup in opera show and Peking Opera show on stage include action games and others style.

The types of facial makeup in opera show, in the person’s face painted a color to symbolize the person’s personality and characteristics, role and destiny, is a major feature of Opera that can help understand the story. Simply put, red-faced with a compliment, on behalf of the gallant; black-neutral, on behalf of fierce intellectual; blue faces and green for neutral faces, representing the hero of the bush; yellow face and white face with derogatory, fraud on behalf of fierce ferocious; gold face and silver face is mysterious, demon on behalf of God. Face book of Peking Opera originated in ancient times, religion and dance masks, and today many parts of the play are retained in this tradition. The Opera’s main body in Chinese culture is more inclined to say the underlying cultural or folk culture, even if it is because of the Manchu Eight Banners Queen and Princes favor for the rapid prosperity, not enough to change the aesthetic of this character. Just because the folk opera from the Qing Dynasty until the previous 20th century obtained the high position, it is also from the level of art itself, to maximize the expansion of civil culture and aesthetic impact, enhance the private interest in the status of traditional Chinese culture. Perking Opera in Beijing is popular and attracts a lot of tourist all the way.

Peking Opera is popular in Beijing tour and the attractive story content attracted a lot of Chinese and foreign tourists to have a enjoy time in Peking Opera theatre. Peking Opera is a main theme of Beijing culture tour. The Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men” is a famous show and has a long history; the Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men” is very popular in Peking Opera Show Beijing. Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men” moved a lot of Chinese people because of its good story content and good performance. The Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men” mainly talk about the Yang Family’s men as military officers during Song dynasty and defeated the enemy Liao dynasty; finally almost Yang Family’s men dead in the war. The Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men” is a sad and magnificent legend; here is some information about the Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men” for tourists who are interested in Peking Opera Legend story.  

Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, Yang Wenguang, the three men are the history of The Legend of the main characters. Legend to serve the country’s three generations of bloody deeds, the spread for future generations. Yang Yanzhao particular and his father Yang Ye, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the world has known. Legend is a heroic story of the legendary series to Romance, telling, drama and other forms of civil widely circulated in China. It has some of the early Northern Song Dynasty people and events to Romance, about four generations of people guarding the northern land of Song dynasty, sake of the moving deeds. Yang Wenguang in the Legend of the story is the son of Yang Zongbao with Mu Guiying. But the fact is in the history, Yang Wenguang is Yang Yanzhao’s son. As the third generation Legend, Yang Wenguang has not been established compared with the merits of his ancestors parents, because this time the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao conferences has been made, and the policies of the Western Xia, and wars between the swing are just defense. But Yang Wenguang Legend inherited from generation to generation the tradition of loyalty to serve the country, do not forget to recover Youyan, the ideal of put down the North, also for the struggle of three generations of the goal. But at this time has been long-standing abuse Song deep, give up military and put forward culture atmosphere has become, denying military forces, Yang Wenguang’s ideal is difficult to achieve. There are more interesting content of Peking Opera Legend “Yang Family Men”; tourists of Beijing Peking Opera tour are welcomed to book online!

Mei Lanfang is a famous master of Peking Opera who dedicated all his life to the arts of Peking Opera. During half a century of practice, he inherited the tradition and innovation, keep improving, creating many beautiful and memorable artistic image, accumulated a large number of outstanding plays, develop and improve the female roles in opera singing and performing arts, formed a unique style and demeanor of the performing arts genre-the Mei school. He made a great contribution to the improvement of Chinese traditional art-Peking Opera. Both among Chinese and foreign friends, Mei Lanfang is a perfect actor in Peking Opera.

If you are interested in Peking Opear, Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall is a good place for you during your Beijing trip. Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall was established in November of 1986, located at No.9 Huguosi Street of Xicheng District, which is a typical Siheyuan of Beijing’s style which the area of about 1000 square meters. Above the red lacquer plated main gate was suspended a plaque “Mei Lanfang Menorial Hall” written by Deng Xiaoping. When get into the main entrance, the brick wall with grey color will come to your eyes first. In front of the wall there are standing white marble busts of Mei Lanfang. Mei Lanfang lived in this quiet and comfortable residence for last 10 years before he died. The Memorial Hall was divided into two parts. The inner courtyard contains living room, study room displaying pictures and objects, briefly introducing his art achievement and social activities.

There are 32421 pieces of precious collections in Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall, mostly donated by the relatives of Mei Lanfang, including scripts, books, photographs, play single, calligraphy, letters, kind, etc, which with the vast majority of heritage value. The civilian clothes of Mei Lanfang himself and some famous old artists over the years, the play equipment photos, Mei and photos of well-known dramatist, as well as from the Qing Dynasty to the modern church in the theater or opera performances alone, are very valuable.

With such a high reputation and the important status, Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall is the place worth visiting. If you are interested in Peking Opera, visiting Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall you will learn more about the history of Peking Opera. And also you could enjoy Peking Opera Show in National Grand Theatre, Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre and Beijing Liyuan Theatre.

Beijing has become a world popular tourism city in recent years due to the rich tourism resources. Not only rich is beautiful natural scenery and human landscapes, the most attractive part in Beijing is the ancient culture. Every year a lot of foreign tourists travel to Beijing during their spare time in order to relax and to learn the ancient culture at the same time.

The whole body of Peking Opera in Chinese culture is more inclined to say the underlying cultural or folk culture, even if it is because of the Manchu Eight Banners Queen and Princes favor for the rapid prosperity, not enough to change the aesthetic of this character. Of course, due to the interesting folk opera, from Qing Dynasty until the 20th century, the previously obtained all the folk art has never been the position, it is also from the level of art itself, to maximize the expansion of civil culture and aesthetic impact, enhance the private interest in the status of traditional Chinese culture.

The main characteristics of Peking Opera are inheritance and Innovative. Inheritance: Peking Opera is the quintessence, the accumulation of national aesthetic habits and cultural tradition of art treasures. The habit and tradition are descendants of the blood, simply cannot afford to change. Chinese subtle, strong, refined and elegant spirits of the characters have the richest, most concentrated and most vivid expression in Peking Opera.

Innovative: not as some people imagine, Peking Opera is a rigid, closed art categories, rely only on traditional operas live. This is a misunderstanding of Peking Opera. The fact is that we are familiar with many of the senior master of the classical repertoire are the result of innovation. Moreover, this innovation despite the detour, but never stopped. Western opera is no longer adapted to our “Butterfly” of the era Peking Opera has taken steps to conquer their own unique artistic language the essence of different cultures.