1.Beijing Opera combines music, acrobatic dance, and spectacular costumes to tell stories from Chinese history and floklore. Using abstract, symbolic gestures rich in dramatic meaning, actors represent personages from the heroic, divine, and animal worlds, often in martial exploits. The traditional features of the masklike makeup and elaborate costumes immediately identify the characters to a knowing audience.
Mei Lan, better known by his stage name Mei Lanfang, was a notable Peking opera artist in modern Chinese theater. Mei was known as "Queen of Peking Opera". Mei was exclusively known for his female lead roles (dan) and particularly his "verdant-robed girls" (qingyi), young or middle-aged women of grace and refinement. He was considered one of the "Four Great Dan", along with Shang Xiaoyun, Cheng Yanqiu, and Xun Huisheng.
Characterized by high, difficult, dangerous, strange and harmonious skills, acrobatics is the sum of various performances, its artistic language mainly includes super-skilled body movements, including contortionist, rope skill, bowling, and cup rolling.