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Peking opera

form of Chinese opera originating in Beijing during the Qing dynasty
Wikidata item: Peking opera (Q335101)
UNESCO ICH ID: RL/00418
instance of: opera genre
country of origin: People's Republic of China
subclass of: Chinese opera
intangible cultural heritage status: Beijing Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage (2011) and Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2010)
described at URL: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00418 (English)
https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00418 (French)
https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/00418 (Spanish)

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Peking opera is a performance art incorporating singing, reciting, acting, martial arts. Although widely practised throughout China, its performance centres on Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. Peking opera is sung and recited using primarily Beijing dialect, and its librettos are composed according to a strict set of rules that prize form and rhyme. They tell stories of history, politics, society and daily life and aspire to inform as they entertain.

The music of Peking opera plays a key role in setting the pace of the show, creating a particular atmosphere, shaping the characters, and guiding the progress of the stories. ‘Civilian plays’ emphasize string and wind instruments such as the thin, high-pitched jinghu and the flute dizi, while ‘military plays’ feature percussion instruments like the bangu or daluo. Performance is characterized by a formulaic and symbolic style with actors and actresses following established choreography for movements of hands, eyes, torsos, and feet.

Traditionally, stage settings and props are kept to a minimum. Costumes are flamboyant and the exaggerated facial make-up uses concise symbols, colours and patterns to portray characters’ personalities and social identities. Peking opera is transmitted largely through master-student training with trainees learning basic skills through oral instruction, observation and imitation. It is regarded as an expression of the aesthetic ideal of opera in traditional Chinese society and remains a widely recognized element of the country’s cultural heritage.^[1]

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American Sign Language

Amharic

Amis

Angika

أوبرا بكين (Modern Standard Arabic)

Ópera de Beixín (Asturian)

Pekin operası (Azerbaijani)

Пекин операһы (Bashkir)

Pekingo Opera (Basque)

Пекинска опера (Bulgarian)

Burmese

Buryat

京劇 (Cantonese)

Òpera de Pequín (Catalan)

Pekinška opera (Croatian)

Pekingská opera (Czech)

Peking opera (English)

Erzya

Pekina opero (Esperanto)

Peking-ooppera (Finnish)

Fon

Franco-Provençal

Opéra de Pékin (French)

Friulian

Fula

Gagauz

Ópera de Pequín (Galician)

Gan Chinese

პეკინის ოპერა (Georgian)

Peking-Oper (German)

Ghanaian Pidgin English

Pekingi opera (Hungarian)

Opera Beijing (Indonesian)

Opera di Pechino (Italian)

Pekinas opera (Latvian)

Pekino opera (Lithuanian)

Opera Beijing (Malay)

പീക്കിങ്ങ് ഓപ്പറ (Malayalam)

Gĭng-kiŏk (Eastern Min)

Бээжингийн дуурь (Mongolian)

Standard Moroccan Amazigh

Opera pekińska (Polish)

Pontic Greek

Ópera de Pequim (Portuguese)

ਪੀਕਿੰਗ ਓਪੇਰਾ (Punjabi)

پیکنگ اوپیرا (Punjabi)

Пекинская опера (Russian)

Pekinška opera (Serbian)

Ópera de Pekín (Spanish)

Pekingopera (Swedish)

པེ་ཅིང་གི་ཁྲང་ཞི། (Tibetan)

Pekin operası (Turkish)

Пекінська опера (Ukrainian)

Upper Sorbian

پیکنگ اوپیرا (Urdu)

بېيجىڭ ئوپىراسى (Uyghur)

Pekin operasi (Uzbek)

Venda

Venetian

Veps

Kinh kịch (Vietnamese)

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