Peking Opera Actor: Rehearse Peking Opera for the Spring Festival Song Yan, from Beijing, is the head of Beijing Fenglei Peking Opera Troupe. He has been performing Peking Opera for 44 years. During the Spring Festival, he and the troupe actively rehearse new plays while preparing for the improved version of Peking Opera for the Spring Festival. He believes that watching Peking Opera has always been a popular Spring Festival activity for Beijing residents. As a traditional art, Peking Opera embo

As the dominant form of traditional Chinese opera, Peking Opera is extolled as the quintessential "Oriental Opera." The highly visual art brings together music and literature, highly elaborate costumes, and face-painting. #Heritage Watch the entire episode of #Inheritors about Peking Opera here: https://youtu.be/sfZw8-aQFfw | China Plus Culture

Considered a national treasure, Peking Opera has a history of more than 200 years and was declared a world intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 2010. What makes Peking Opera so attractive, even today? Find out with Xinhua's Dale Fox. #GLOBALink | China Xinhua News