A woman is singing Beijing Opera and wielding a flowery spear. Her movements are elegant and powerful, as she twirls the flowery spear in her hands, executing intricate patterns with ease and grace. 🎥: xiaohongshu-惜春催花雨 #opera #fantastic #tradition | Fantastic China

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"#HelloChina"-Beijing Opera Beijing Opera, also known as the Peking Opera, is a complicated stage art which combines performance, acrobatics, music, facial painting, and other features into a single unique art form. Originating in the Chinese capital Beijing, the art form has a history spanning some 200 years. Before the advent of Beijing Opera, Kunqu opera was the most prominent form. However, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was not content with this old style. That's when Beijing Opera ca