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Chinese opera

Index Chinese opera

Traditional Chinese opera, or Xiqu, is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. [1]

102 relations: Adjutant, Anhui, Bak Sheut-sin, Beijing, Cambridge University Press, Cantonese opera, Cao Yu, Chinese contemporary classical opera, Chinese culture, Chongqing, Classical Chinese, Cultural Revolution, Dan (Chinese opera), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Er ren zhuan, Fujian, Fuzhou, Gang of Four, Gao Changgong, Gao Ming, Gaojia opera, Ghost Festival, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, Hakka opera, Hebei, Hebei bangzi, Henan, Hongwu Emperor, Huaguxi, Huangmei opera, Hubei, Hunan, Hundred Flowers Campaign, Ivy Ling Po, Jenny Tseng, Jiang Qing, Jiju, Jilin, Jo Riley, Journey to the West, Kunqu, Later Zhao, Lüju, List of Chinese musical instruments, Liyuan opera, Lyrics, Mao Zedong, Maoqiang Opera, ..., May Fourth Movement, Min opera, Ming dynasty, Music of China, Nanxi opera, Northern Qi, Ogg, Opera, Ouju, Pear Garden, Peking opera, Pingju, Puju, Putian, Puxian opera, Qing dynasty, Qinqiang, Qu (poetry), Quanzhou, Revolutionary opera, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai opera, Shanxi, Shaoxing opera, Sichuan, Sichuanese opera, Six Dynasties, Song dynasty, Taiwan, Taiwanese opera, Tale of the Pipa, Tang dynasty, Tang Xianzu, Teochew opera, The Peach Blossom Fan, The Peony Pavilion, Varieties of Chinese, Wanli Emperor, Wenzhou, Western Regions, Wu (region), Wu Han (historian), Wuju, Yam Kim-fai, Yu opera, Yuan dynasty, Yuan poetry, Zaju, Zhang Dai, Zhejiang. Expand index (52 more) »

Adjutant

Adjutant is a military appointment given to an officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration.

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Anhui

Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.

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Bak Sheut-sin

Bak Sheut-sin (born 1 April 1926 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China), also known as Bai Xuexian, is a famous former Chinese opera actress in China and Hong Kong.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cantonese opera

The Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province.

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Cao Yu

Cao Yu (September 24, 1910—December 13, 1996) was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century.

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Chinese contemporary classical opera

Chinese contemporary classical opera (Chinese: 当今古典歌剧; dāngjīn gŭdiăn gējù; "contemporary classical opera") is a musical art form drawing on western opera traditions - distinct from modern developments of traditional Chinese opera.

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Chinese culture

Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.

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Chongqing

Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese, is the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period through to the end of the Han Dynasty, a written form of Old Chinese.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.

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Dan (Chinese opera)

Dan ((Wade-Giles: tan), is the general name for female roles in Chinese opera, often referring to leading roles.

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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (8 September 685 – 3 May 762), also commonly known as Emperor Ming of Tang or Illustrious August, personal name Li Longji, also known as Wu Longji from 690 to 705, was the seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, reigning from 713 to 756 C.E. His reign of 43 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty.

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Er ren zhuan

Two-people Rotation is a genre of local folk dance and song from Northeast China.

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Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou, formerly romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

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Gang of Four

The Gang of Four was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials.

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Gao Changgong

Gao Changgong (541 – 573) (Chinese: 高长恭; pinyin: Gāo Chánggōng), formal name was Gao Su (Traditional Chinese: 高肅; Simplified Chinese: 高肃; pinyin: Gāo Sù) or Gao Xiaoguan (高孝瓘), was a high-ranking general of the Northern Qi dynasty given a fiefdom in Lanling County, so he was also known as the Prince of Lanling (蘭陵王).

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Gao Ming

Gao Ming (13051370), also known as Kao Ming, Gao Zecheng, and the Cabbage Root Taoist, was a Chinese poet and playwright during the Yuan Dynasty.

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Gaojia opera

Gaojia opera or Ko-kah opera is a form of Chinese opera popular in Fujian province in the People's Republic of China.

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Ghost Festival

The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, Zhongyuan Jie (中元节), Gui Jie (鬼节) or Yulan Festival is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in certain Asian countries.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

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Hai Rui Dismissed from Office

Hai Rui Dismissed from Office is a theatre play notable for its involvement in Chinese politics during the Cultural Revolution.

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Hakka opera

Hakka opera or Han opera is a variety of Chinese opera from eastern Guangdong province, China.

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Hebei

Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.

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Hebei bangzi

Hebei bangzi (河北梆子) is a genre of Chinese opera from the northern province of Hebei.

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Henan

Henan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.

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Hongwu Emperor

The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (Chu Yuan-chang in Wade-Giles), was the founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty.

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Huaguxi

Huaguxi (花鼓戏) is a form of Chinese opera originating in Hunan province.

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Huangmei opera

Huangmei or Huangmei tone (黃梅戲 or 黃梅調, pinyin: Huángméixì or Huángméidiào) originated as a form of rural folksong and dance that has been in existence for the last 200 years and possibly longer.

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Hubei

Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.

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Hunan

Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.

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Hundred Flowers Campaign

The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement, was a period in 1956 in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China (CPC) encouraged its citizens to openly express their opinions of the communist regime.

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Ivy Ling Po

Huang Yu-chun (born 16 November 1939 in Shantou, Republic of China), known by her final stage name Ivy Ling Po, is a retired Hong Kong actress and Chinese opera singer.

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Jenny Tseng

Jenny Tseng (Yan Nei; born 20 February 1953), is a Macau singer, actress and producer, mostly known in Cantonese-speaking regions, based in Hong Kong for much of her career. Tseng is one of the most popular female singer in Hong Kong during the Golden Age of Music and remained popular throughout the late 70s all through to the early 90s. Her career has spawned for 4 decades, and she has become one of the most successful cantopop singers, she has released over 130 albums and sold over 10 million records worldwide.

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Jiang Qing

Jiang Qing (March 19, 1914May 14, 1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese Communist Revolutionary, Chinese actress, and major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76).

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Jiju

Jilin opera (Pinyin: Jiju) is a form of Chinese opera, especially popular in Jilin province, China.

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Jilin

Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.

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Jo Riley

Josephine Riley is a British writer, translator, theatre actor, and schoolteacher.

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Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.

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Kunqu

Kunqu, also known as Kunju (崑劇), Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is one of the oldest extant forms of Chinese opera.

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Later Zhao

The Later Zhao (319-351) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) in China.

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Lüju

Lüju (吕剧) is a variety of Chinese opera from the eastern province of Shandong, China.

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List of Chinese musical instruments

Chinese musical instruments were traditionally grouped into 8 categories known as bayin (八音).

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Liyuan opera

Liyuan opera is a form of Chinese opera originating in Quanzhou city, Fujian province, China.

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Lyrics

Lyrics are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Maoqiang Opera

Maoqiang Opera is a local folk opera style from the Jiaozhou area of Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula) in eastern China.

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May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student participants in Beijing on 4 May 1919, protesting against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao.

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Min opera

Min opera (Foochow Romanized: Mìng-kiŏk), also called Fuzhou drama (Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-hié), is one of the major traditional opera forms in Fujian Province.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Music of China

Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities within mainland China.

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Nanxi opera

Nanxi is an early form of Chinese opera, developed from ancient traditions of mime, singing, and dancing during the Song dynasty in the 12th century.

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Northern Qi

The Northern Qi was one of the Northern dynasties of Chinese history and ruled northern China from 550 to 577.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Ouju

Ouju (瓯剧; pinyin: Ōujù) is a form of Chinese opera from Wenzhou, in southeastern Zhejiang, China.

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Pear Garden

The Pear Garden or Líyuán was the first known royal acting and musical academy in China founded during the Tang dynasty by Emperor Xuanzong (712–755).

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Peking opera

Peking opera, or Beijing opera, is a form of Chinese opera which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.

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Pingju

Pingju or Ping Opera (p píngjù) is a form of Chinese opera from northern China.

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Puju

Puju (蒲剧; also known as Puzhou bangzi, 蒲州梆子) is a variety of Chinese opera from southern Shanxi, China.

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Putian

Putian is a prefecture-level city in eastern Fujian province, China.

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Puxian opera

Puxian opera, also known as Xinghua opera or Hinghwa opera, is a variety of Chinese opera from Putian, Fujian province, China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Qinqiang

Qinqiang (秦腔, pinyin: Qínqiāng) or Luantan (亂彈, pinyin: Luàntán) is the representative folk Chinese opera of the northwest Province of Shaanxi, China, where it was called Qin thousands of years ago.

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Qu (poetry)

The Qu form of poetry is a type of Classical Chinese poetry form, consisting of words written in one of a number of certain, set tone patterns, based upon the tunes of various songs.

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Quanzhou

Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, China.

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Revolutionary opera

In China, revolutionary opera refers to the model operas planned and engineered during the Cultural Revolution by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong.

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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Shanghai opera

Huju, or Shanghai opera, is composed of a variety of Chinese operas from Shanghai.

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Shanxi

Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.

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Shaoxing opera

Shaoxing opera, also known as Yue opera, is the second most popular opera form out of over 360 opera genres in China.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Sichuanese opera

Sichuanese opera (Sichuanese Pinyin: Cuan1ju4) is a type of Chinese opera originating in China's Sichuan province around 1700.

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Six Dynasties

Six Dynasties (Chinese: 六朝; Pinyin: Liù Cháo; 220 or 222–589) is a collective term for six Chinese dynasties in China during the periods of the Three Kingdoms (220–280 AD), Jin dynasty (265–420), and Southern and Northern Dynasties (420–589).

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taiwanese opera

Taiwanese (folk) Ke-Tse opera is the only form of traditional drama known to have originated in Taiwan.

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Tale of the Pipa

Tale of the Pipa ("Tale of the Pipa" or "The Story of the Lute") is a southern style (Yangtze Valley) Chinese play written by the playwright Gao Ming during the late Yuan Dynasty.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Tang Xianzu

Tang Xianzu (September 24, 1550 – July 29, 1616), courtesy name Yireng (義仍), was a Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty.

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Teochew opera

Teochew opera or Chaozhou opera, Chiuchow opera (especially in Hong Kong), is one of the many variants of Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Chaoshan region.

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The Peach Blossom Fan

The Peach Blossom Fan is a musical play and historical drama in 44 scenes that was completed in 1699 by the early Qing dynasty playwright Kong Shangren after more than 10 years of effort.

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The Peony Pavilion

The Peony Pavilion (Chinese: 牡丹亭; pinyin: Mǔdān tíng; Wade–Giles: Mu-tan t'ing), also named The Return of Soul at the Peony Pavilion, is a romantic tragicomedy play written by dramatist Tang Xianzu in 1598, and the plot was drawn from the short story Du Liniang Revives For Love. It depictes a love story between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, overcomes all difficulties, transcending time and space, life and death, and finally get together.

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Varieties of Chinese

Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible.

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Wanli Emperor

The Wanli Emperor (4 September 1563 – 18 August 1620), personal name Zhu Yijun, was the 14th emperor of the Ming dynasty of China.

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Wenzhou

Wenzhou (pronounced; Wenzhounese) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China.

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Western Regions

The Western Regions or Xiyu (Hsi-yu) was a historical name specified in the Chinese chronicles between the 3rd century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of Yumen Pass, most often Central Asia or sometimes more specifically the easternmost portion of it (e.g. Altishahr or the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang), though it was sometimes used more generally to refer to other regions to the west of China as well, such as the Indian subcontinent (as in the novel Journey to the West).

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Wu (region)

Wu refers to a region in China whose core area is around Lake Tai in Jiangnan (the south of the Yangtze River).

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Wu Han (historian)

Wu Han (August 11, 1909 – October 11, 1969) was a Chinese historian and politician, and a leading scholar on the Ming dynasty.

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Wuju

Wuju, or Jinhua opera, is a form of Chinese opera from Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, China.

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Yam Kim-fai

Yam Kim Fai (4 February 1913 (Lunar 29 December 1912) – 29 November 1989), also known as Ren Jianhui was a renowned Cantonese opera actress in China and Hong Kong.

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Yu opera

Yu opera, or Yuju opera, formerly known as Henan bangzi"Bangzi" meaning wooden clappers with bars of unequal length, is one of China's famous national opera forms, alongside Peking opera, Shaoxing opera, Huangmei opera and Pingju.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Yehe Yuan Ulus), was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan.

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Yuan poetry

Yuan poetry refers to those types or styles of poetry particularly associated with the era of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), in China.

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Zaju

Zaju (literally meaning "variety show") was a form of Chinese drama or Chinese opera which provided entertainment through a synthesis of recitations of prose and poetry, dance, singing, and mime, with a certain emphasis on comedy (or, happy endings).

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Zhang Dai

Zhang Dai (張岱; pinyin: Zhāng Dài, courtesy name: Zhongzhi (宗子), pseudonym: Tao'an (陶庵)) (1597–1684) was a Ming Dynasty Chinese writer.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_opera

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