Female role in Peking opera
Updated: 2007-04-28 09:28
Peking Opera Roles include sheng (male role), dan (female role), jing (painted-face male role), and chou (comedic male role), distinguished on the basis of sex, age, and personality.
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Dan (female role) is divided into qing yi, wu dan, hua dan and lao dan, respectively representing a middle-aged woman who always acts as a Mrs. or Miss from a noble family, a woman who can fight, a young girl maid, and an aged woman.
