Unique show to showcase Peking Opera technique in a new light

The 200-year-old Peking Opera is an inalienable part of China's culture. And of all the techniques, types and varieties, nandan is a key part of the art.

The practice of nandan began at a time when women were not permitted to take to the stage.

In the first half of the 20th century nandan performances were at its height, and the four Peking Opera masters, Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), Shang Xiaoyun (1900-1976), Cheng Yanqiu (1904-1958) and Xun Huisheng (1900-1968), who have been called the four great nandan masters, established the four dan styles that took their family names.