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Beijing OperaIn the Qing Dynasty, huiban ---- opera troupes featuring the tunes of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and funded by the richest merchants in the city of Huizhou---began to arrive in Beijing. They performed with Opera troupes from Hubei who sang in the Han tunes, and over time they influenced each other. Eventually, Beijing Opera was formed. Everyone who sees a performance of Chinese opera can grasp what the actor or actress is doing even without understanding the language, because all the movements performed on the stage are created from real life and conform to the respective roles. In traditional Chinese operas there is a minimum of stage equipment; the time, environment, relations among the roles and characters of the people in the story are all demonstrated through singing, speaking and body movements. For example, there is no door on the stage, but the presence of a door is conveyed quite clearly to the audience when a performer makes the gestures of opening a door, stepping through and closing it again. This type of artistic exaggeration is brought to perfection in the superb martial arts skills of the performers when simulating battles. Stylized patterns of singing, dialogue, acting and acrobatics were gradually formed --- all in coordination with specific musical rhythms. At the same time, the roles were classified according to the sex, age, personality and social status of each character ---into sheng, dan, jing and chou |