1. Roles Peking Opera roles include sheng (male role), dan (female role), jing (painted-face male role), and chou (comedic male role), distinguished on the basis of sex, age, and personality.

The Sheng (生) is the main male role in Beijing opera. This role has numerous subtypes. The laosheng is a dignified older role. These characters have a gentle and cultivated disposition and wear ...

a Beijing Opera depends on extravagant makeup and costuming. For a closer look, let's go to the Thought Bubble. Chinese opera characters are divided into four types, Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou.

With a history of about 200 years, Beijing Opera is distinctively Chinese. Previously, stamps were issued featuring the opera's Sheng, Dan and Chou roles.

The Peking Opera will perform SIX CHAPTERS OF A FLOATING LIFE by Shen Fu (Qing Dynasty) at the Multi-functional Theatre on March 6-8, 2010. Dates: Mar. 06-08, 2010?19:30 Price: 300 200 120 RMB ...

There used to be another role called mo, which has merged into sheng. Sheng is the male role in Beijing Opera. Sheng, according to the age, personality and status of the characters, is subdivided into ...

This morning, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz welcomed the Beijing Guo Sheng Opera Troupe to Brooklyn, greeting the crowd "ni hao ma?" in his shaky Mandarin*. The opera group ...

Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.

Peking Opera is both graceful and agile, requiring performers to learn singing, dancing, acting and acrobatics. It has clearly defined roles: sheng, lao sheng, huadan, qingyi and hualian.